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"Substance abuse can bond people. But it’s also anhedonia. There’s no glamour. "

I interviewed the brilliant @stuhennigan.bsky.social about his debut #keshed @ortacpress.bsky.social. We chatted about his process, the complexities of writing class & addiction, blistering sentences, T.Harrison, Dylan Thomas, Pat Barker, punk poets & more. All thanks @minorliteratures.bsky.social.

“The last thing the world needs is another middle-aged white man writing about masculinity, politics and whatever”: An Interview with @stuhennigan.bsky.social — @susannacrossman.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/04/14/t...

Very much looking forward to sharing this interview with the brilliant @stuhennigan.bsky.social about his excellent debut #keshed. Words on his multi-layered process, vernacular, writing class & addiction, poet Dylan Thomas, rhythm, language & more. Out tomorrow in @minorliteratures.bsky.social !

🖼️ Barbara Winrow

Calling all Long Goodbye freaks: Hollywood Heritage is working with the Hollywood Heights Association to offer a very early Sunday morning tour of High Tower--and yes, you'll get a ride in Philip Marlowe's elevator. BYOC (bring your own cat food). www.hollywoodheritage.org/event-detail...

For the weekend crowd -- I have an interview out in minor lits about CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL, come learn the lore behind the title and the finer points of what makes a millennial

Liz Huppert. Contemporary stained glass artist #WomensArt #Spring

Happy Easter! Here’s a lovely Romano-British brooch in the form of a cheerful little hare! 😍 Copper alloy decorated with enamel, 2nd-3rd century AD. 📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology

Loved talking to @monalisavitti.bsky.social for @minorliteratures.bsky.social about all things childfree, including pronatalism, what makes a millennial, and Disney World. I hope you'll give it a read! minorliteratures.com/2026/03/31/c...

new interview up with @chiaradilello.bsky.social on her new chapbook Childless Millennial. check it out:

“Choosing not to have children doesn’t mean that we don’t have skin in the game”: An Interview with @chiaradilello.bsky.social — @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/03/31/c...

Today is Sextidi the 6th of Germinal in the year 234. Germinal is the month of sprouting. Today we celebrate chard.#JacobinDay More information on chard

Girl and the River at Six O’Clock (2025) by Hanieh Ghashghaei. Acrylic on paper.

Our annual, seasonal viewing of Duck With Spring Onions. Oil on canvas. www.vickisawyer.com/shop/fine-ar... As glorious and medicinal as the sun.

Been feeling a bit overwhelmed lately, so it feels like a good time to share my painting "Steady".

Artist: Claudia Gaugier (Polish)

“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...

"I set myself a constraint—every fragment had to have the number fourteen in it. Now, how could I do that without driving the reader crazy? It became like a game ..." — @erinvincent.bsky.social talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/03/17/t...

new interview with @erinvincent.bsky.social !! check it out !

our own @monalisavitti.bsky.social at AWP w/ @thedodgemag.bsky.social

check out this new interview with David Leo Rice !

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

« At its best it was around 20 years of people making works that altered the way art was made, who had access to make it, and the way it circulated and was received; works that changed the ways we see the world » THIS 👆 Insightful interview with @badaude.bsky.social by @monalisavitti.bsky.social 😍

check out my interview with @badaude.bsky.social on her recent book Amateurs!

“Most people are still scrolling because there’s nowhere else to go”: An Interview with @badaude.bsky.social — @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/10/m...

nj 11 for @analiliafornj.bsky.social

"Stemming etymologically from the same roots, these languages have branched out and the distance from their roots, the connections, may have been severed—or, this poem asks, perhaps there is still some collective soil?" Jennifer K. Dick minorliteratures.com/2026/01/13/m...

"[If] we do not borrow and try on otherness [...] it will become increasingly difficult for us to accept and realize the myriad of elements that really understanding others requires ..." An Interview with Jennifer K. Dick — Nina Zivancevic minorliteratures.com/2026/01/13/m...

"Nella mia immaginazione la nuda parola è in grado di spaccare in due la vita e portarla a una metamorfosi ..." Un’intervista con Antonio Moresco minorliteratures.com/2026/01/07/n...

"In my imagination, the naked word is capable of splitting life in two and bringing about a metamorphosis ..." An Interview with Antonio Moresco minorliteratures.com/2026/01/07/i...

For Epiphany, this glorious 1966 illustration of the Three Kings by the great Eyvind Earle (1916 - 2000), best remembered for his enormous contribution to Disney Animation's visual style during the 1950s, particularly Sleeping Beauty (1959).

Experiments on cats (2013) by Russian artist, Alexandre Mityaev Oil on canvas #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt #HappyNewYear

Sculpture by Mio Hashimoto

It’s that time again.

A so long old year melancholy poem by Italian Salvatore Quasimodo The rain is already with us Again a year is burned, without lament, without a cry upraised to win us - suddenly - a day.

Zohran should create little schools everyone has to go to that teach you to still talk with a 1987 nyc dirtbag accent the way the Irish do with Gaelic

"I think translating work is difficult but rewarding. It comes with incredible responsibility too. My method is an amalgamation of literal and dynamic translation. It’s a vast enterprise. I try not to think of its enormity ..." — @rjdent.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/12/02/a...

"Entering a text to translate it is finding a word or phrase that acts as a key opening a door into the world that the text describes. I use that door to enter that world."

feel strongly that you shouldn't buy shit on black friday, BUT if you did want to buy something, why not buy my books from the incomparable indie distributor @asterismbooks.bsky.social? TOADSTONES (original weird fiction) and NIGHT FEARS (collection of translated fic from Weird Tales magazine)?

"The classical carnivalesque reverses power relations. So, the right flipped the flip, and thus it becomes a punching-down version of the carnivalesque; the cruelty becomes part of that reversed affect." Jack Z. Bratich talks to Daniel Lukes minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/i...

"Today, what does it mean to take the internet as the media cultural expression of contemporary fascism? Or certain digital networks and the production of memes?" Jack Z. Bratich talks to Daniel Lukes minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/i...

and coming up this week ... — Jack Z. Bratich interviewed by Daniel Lukes — an extract from Nebojša Lujanović's Cloud the Color of Skin, translated by @enaselimo.bsky.social

link to donate to local food banks in nj cfbnj.donorsupport.co/page/FUNHHUF...

I mentioned this poem the other day. Alejandra Pizarnik wrote this to her friend (and perhaps crush?) Italian poet and translator of Dante, Cristina Campo. Rings of Ashes There is, in this waiting a rumor of breaking lilac