Tuesday

“Choosing not to have children doesn't mean that we don't have skin in the game”: An Interview with Chiara Di Lello — Cristina Politano minorliteratures.com/2026/03/31/c...

Questioning the sex of any woman athlete who does not look feminine enough or preforms too well is as old as the history of women in elite sports. This is a valuable overview.

Essay from last August regarding World Athletics, suddenly relevant due to the IOC

Surprised?

A catalogue of farewells: Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ivana Sajko, translated by Mima Simić @biblioasis.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/03/30/a...

A catalogue of farewells: Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ivana Sajko, translated by Mima Simić @biblioasis.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/03/30/a...

Well done. #NoKings

So, I had my second cataract surgery yesterday. On a walk today I was struck by this view which I see almost every day. With two new, crystal clear acrylic lenses everything (mid-distance and beyond) looks so crisp and clear . Of course, many surfaces at home now look very grubby. . .

A drunk former fox news host refused to promote two Black and two female officers because a convicted felon and 5x draft dodger does not want to stand next to a Black woman at military events. Think about that for a second.

Excellent book mail to end the week. Dual language edition of Juan Ramón Jiménez's Eternities from Bitter Oleander Press and 14 Ways of Looking by @erinvincent.bsky.social ordered from the UK not only because @cbeditions.bsky.social rocks but the Canadian release is hardcover at $35 CDN (from M&S).

I was not expecting this! Many thanks to @johnmadera.bsky.social for this great honour. 😊 bigother.com/2026/03/27/a...

"This man – he must have been the cook that day – was sombre and compact. There was something definite about him, like he’d settled into his eventual form from a young age."

Savoir-faire — Alice Blackhurst minorliteratures.com/2026/03/26/s...

ICYMI I wrote about this 19th century Czech classic novel, finally available in English in Susan Reynold's translation. @jantarbooks.bsky.social There goes a happy woman: The Grandmother by Božena Němcová roughghosts.com/2026/03/23/t...

"And how haunting and beautiful it is, to have voice as the tipping point between feigned resemblance and meaningful language ..." Disembodied Voices — Kiana Rezakhanlou minorliteratures.com/2026/03/24/d...

"Recently, it feels like my voice has rendered me all too perceived, and all too unrecognisable. My voice makes me, but I am not all my voice entails." Disembodied Voices — Kiana Rezakhanlou minorliteratures.com/2026/03/24/d...

“My voice has always carried some uniqueness. I am part of the first generation of my family to be a native speaker of English, after all.” Disembodied Voices — Kiana Rezakhanlou minorliteratures.com/2026/03/24/d...

My latest #InternationalBookerPrize2026 review is Sharhnush Pasipur's Women Without Men, translated by Faridoun Farrokh: 1streading.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/w...

There goes a happy woman: The Grandmother by Božena Němcová, translated by Susan Reynolds @jantarbooks.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/03/23/t...

There goes a happy woman: The Grandmother by Božena Němcová, translated by Susan Reynolds @jantarbooks.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/03/23/t...

Very to share my new piece of auto-fiction, The Appointment, published in the 10th anniversary Anatomy edition of RIC Journal. A story about wax, things being added, removed & the body work of beauticians. ricjournal.com/2026/03/19/t... All thanks to editor @saudaminideo.bsky.social .

"Like a snake or other animal I don’t have a lot time or money, antennas, licenses, expertise. I know enough to know how to tune in, where most of the voices are ..." Passive Sounding — Kelly Krumrie minorliteratures.com/2026/03/19/p...

Transference — @minxmarple.bsky.social ricjournal.com/2026/03/19/t...

"The voice is ecstatic. It transmits a specific ecstasy. Like St. Teresa, I lift out of my chair. It lifts me out of my chair." Passive Sounding — Kelly Krumrie minorliteratures.com/2026/03/19/p...

"There is a crack in the earth. A crack so narrow, it’s all that’s left of the void, but it’s enough."—Hélène Cixous, trans. Sophie Lewis

"There is a crack in the earth. A crack so narrow, it’s all that’s left of the void, but it’s enough. There’s fire inside the crack, it’s a fire that’s catching on slowly, deeply, radically, so slowly that men have time to extinguish it if they fear it, to crush it, cut it out."

Angst — Hélène Cixous (tr. Sophie Lewis) minorliteratures.com/2026/03/18/a...

"When people call it a memoir, I think, “Yes, it is, but it’s not only a memoir.” I’m trying to play with form. I once tried to describe it to someone as a bit of poetic prose, a bit of memoir, a bit of history, a bit of biography." — @erinvincent.bsky.social speaks with @monalisavitti.bsky.social

#Black-rumpedFlameback #Kochi #Kerala #India #birds #photography #birdphotography #BirdWatching #birdsofbluesky #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography

“The white space on the page represents the silences, omissions, the unspeakable and the unknowable”: An Interview with Erin Vincent — Cristina Politano minorliteratures.com/2026/03/17/t...

Being March, the frosting has already melted off the city streets, but it looked lovely Saturday. ❄️ #Montreal #photography #weather #snow #StreetPhotography

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

A new translation by Rachel Careau of Colette's The Pure and the Impure coming this July.

Incoming: The latest from Istros Books. #RomanianLit

"I have not made lists, which include shopping lists, lists of thoughts to remember, to do lists, not to do lists, lists of what one can do except doing ..." Listing — Sef minorliteratures.com/2026/03/12/l...

ICYMI I wrote about this mesmerizing novella translated from the Swedish by Saski Vogel. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social And she ruled: Queen by Birgitta Trotzig roughghosts.com/2026/03/11/a...

"1. Where does a list begin 2. When does a list end 3. What is a list for 4. Who reads lists" Listing — Sef minorliteratures.com/2026/03/12/l...

Expecting some more white tonight, but for now some black and white from yesterday. #YCC

And she ruled: Queen by Birgitta Trotzig, translated by Saskia Vogel @archipelagobooks.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/03/11/a...

This book sounds as if designed for me.

And she ruled: Queen by Birgitta Trotzig, translated by Saskia Vogel @archipelagobooks.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/03/11/a...

"And the voices of the sinners were a great lamentation, for they cried out after mercy and forgiveness with great gnashing of teeth and vexation of spirit ..." Gifts of the Spirit — @ericracher.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/03/10/g...

"James was destined to become a great preacher. Everyone said so. His mother always told the same story." — new fiction from @ericracher.bsky.social Gifts of the Spirit — Eric T. Racher minorliteratures.com/2026/03/10/g...

Today at @minorliteratures.bsky.social , witness the Apocalypse in the American Midwest in @ericracher.bsky.social 's story "Gifts of the Spirit" Gifts of the Spirit — Eric T. Racher minorliteratures.com/2026/03/10/g...

last week @ minor lits ... — experimental poetry from @thoushallkill.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/03/03/t... — Simon Wortham on Irmagard Keun minorliteratures.com/2026/03/05/m...

“Melancholia is the more painful and elusive psychological experience [than grief] because the melancholic does not know what even if they know whom they have lost. Melancholy is characterised by a strangely absent sense of absence; the melancholic is absorbed by an enigma.”

🧪🌊🦑🐳 #WhaleWednesday #AlaskaSky

i’m sorry to learn the great Portuguese novelist António Lobo Antunes has died. what an amazing body of work he has left

"something about the ‘everything-and-nothing’ of fascism...carries itself over into the precise character of manic protest, which takes aim everywhere and nowhere all at once." – Simon Wortham on fascism and the work of Irmgaard Keun, today at @minorliteratures.bsky.social