"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

“[W]e do inhabit, similar to the the years before modernism, a sense that our world has irrevocably changed”: An Interview with @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social — @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/10/29/a...

" I don’t know what it is about him, but I sympathize with his neuroses and anxieties. He was an intensely neurotic and a very fearful person, and it comes out a lot in in his fiction." @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social discusses his new book on Thomas Mann with @monalisavitti.bsky.social

my latest interview with the writer @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social on his book about thomas mann and the magic mountain

Coming up this week ... — poetic non-fiction from @dluntz.bsky.social — @monalisavitti.bsky.social talks to @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social about his book on Thomas Mann — fiction from Mikra Namani

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

"Suddenly a veil is lifted: our fantasies and abstractions dissipate when the empty socket of the State’s eye is filled by a human eye ..." “Engineers of the Soul”: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos — Toti O’Brien minorliteratures.com/2025/10/21/e...

“Engineers of the Soul”: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos — Toti O’Brien minorliteratures.com/2025/10/21/e...

if you read one thing today, make it this urgent and lyrical interview between toti o’brien and greek novelist dmitris lyacos

Forrest Gander

and coming up this week ... — Toti O’Brien interviews Dimitris Lyacos — experimental work from @gabrielflynn.bsky.social

Very pleased to join the fellas of the excellent Pynchon podcast Slow Learners to discuss the women of Vineland and its connections to Against the Day, among other things. ⛏️💣 DIG! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

“Behold me now just as I am, Colette once said in a beautiful piece about how she was in her early 30s (my age) & alone, living in a one-room apartment on the first floor, a Parisian room near the Bois de Boulogne. Beholding herself in the mirror, just as she was.” (p91) #NYRBWomen25

by Gregory Corso

laszlo krazsnahorkai w/ hari kunzru in the yale review

by Sylvia Plath, for the season

really great conversation between @noonanerik.bsky.social and al-essa, a kuwaiti bookseller and novelist

coming up this week ... — Erik Noonan in conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa — fiction from Matthew Kinlin [@matthewkinlin.bsky.social]

by Ted Berrigan for National Poetry Day

last week @ minor lits ... — @monalisavitti.bsky.social interviews Austyn Wohlers minorliteratures.com/2025/09/23/w... — an extract from Joseph Nechvatal's Venus Voluptuous in the Loins of the Last God ( @orbistertiuspress.bsky.social ) minorliteratures.com/2025/09/25/v...

"I think that one autobiographical impetus was, well, what would it look like to fail and just completely reject these methods, or the idea of productivity that we are enmeshed in?" — Austyn Wohlers talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/09/23/w...

"Music may be more directly about feeling and experiencing the world, whereas literature [...] ends up being more about reflecting the process in the world ..." — Austyn Wohlers talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/09/23/w...

“What would it look like to just seek absolute stillness?”: An Interview with Austyn Wohlers — @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/09/23/w...

and coming up this week ... — @monalisavitti.bsky.social interviews Austyn Wohlers — an extract from new work by Joseph Nechvatal ( @orbistertiuspress.bsky.social )

"I wanted to explore emotional authenticity under these conditions of affective illegibility. How can an aesthetic response refuse shame? Ultimately, I wanted to be honest about my shamelessness ..." @alinaetc.bsky.social talks to Cristina Politano minorliteratures.com/2025/09/18/w...

'What does the lover demand from the body of the beloved in order to secure certainty. Little things. Eternity.' the divine Alina @alinaetc.bsky.social This is a fabulous interview by @monalisavitti.bsky.social, I need more

"Words DO things. And naming is what gods do with language ..." @alinaetc.bsky.social talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/09/18/w...

my latest, an interview with the inimitable @alinaetc.bsky.social

ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ... — new fiction by @addisonzeller.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/09/09/w... — @monalisavitti.bsky.social interviews Tim MacGabhann minorliteratures.com/2025/09/10/i... — an extract from Charlotte Northall minorliteratures.com/2025/09/11/p...

incoming this week @minorliteratures.bsky.social

"I’m trying to tell to hallucination Marcel Proust that I get that it, that it’s not a big deal, but I’m stuck in it, so fuck, what am I supposed to do here, big man? ..." Tim MacGabhann talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/09/10/i...

“I can't write about [Dublin] because it's been done to death. However, I can write about the nothing that came before and that is coming after”: An Interview with Tim MacGabhann—Cristina Politano minorliteratures.com/2025/09/10/i...

“I can’t write about [Dublin] because it’s been done to death. However, I can write about the nothing that came before and that is coming after”: An Interview with Tim MacGabhann — @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/09/10/i...

"I was trying to be as reportorially honest as possible. That I think links to your question about investigative journalism. I didn’t want to write a literary thing at all ..." Tim MacGabhann talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social about his memoir THE BLACK POOL minorliteratures.com/2025/09/10/i...

"I think that we can find our own language to talk about sex through freeing ourselves from the male gaze ..." An interview with Lou Syrah — @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/07/24/t...

"Je pense donc qu’on peut trouver sa langue propre pour parler de cul en se libérant du regard masculin ..." Interview avec Lou Syrah — @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/07/24/l...

« L'imaginaire hétérosexuel est encore sali par l'idée que le désir féminin serait soit dégoutant soit pathologique »: Interview avec Lou Syrah — @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/07/24/l...

"The heterosexual imagination remains tainted by the idea that female desire is either disgusting or pathological": An interview with Lou Syrah — @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/07/24/t...

don't forget, we're open for submissions of fiction, essays and experimental work throughout August ... details & guidelines for all calls here: oleada.io/publication/...

and we'll have more next week when @monalisavitti.bsky.social interviews journalist, author, and chair of the Wittkop Society, Lou Syrah ...

"it didn’t feel like the point was just to characterize this person’s life, but to try to think more about the calculation that he’d made, how it was its own kind of fiction, its own frontier as a fiction ..." @daisyatter.bsky.social on Theodore von Kármán minorliteratures.com/2025/07/08/t...

“[The American Southwest] is a place where the myth of the nation breaks down”: An Interview with Daisy Atterbury ( @daisyatter.bsky.social )—Cristina Politano ( @monalisavitti.bsky.social ) minorliteratures.com/2025/07/08/t...

And coming up this week ... — @monalisavitti.bsky.social interviews @daisyatter.bsky.social — an extract from DAYDREAMERS by @alvinlu.bsky.social ( @fictioncollective2.bsky.social )

"It’s about the people and the places that made me. I’m the prism through which all of this is observed or narrated, but I think that’s true of any nonfiction book whether we like it or not. " Ben Libman @benlibman.bsky.social talks to Cristina Politano @monalisavitti.bsky.social about his new book.

"It is your responsibility to use what you’ve been given for a greater good. And it is your responsibility to rid what you have been given of the evil that attaches to it ..." @benlibman.bsky.social talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/05/29/i...