monalisa vitti
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aka cristina politano // essay and fiction writer // interviews for minor lits
pinned post!
my latest essay is up in issue 19 of
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Cordella Press
A biannual online publication with an annual print edition, featuring the work of women-identified and nonbinary creatives.
https://cordella.org
10 months ago
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Daniel
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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
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27 days ago
"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
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“A Word as a Key Opening a Door:” An Interview with R. J. Dent — Matthew Kinlin
R.J. Dent is a renowned translator of French literature, whose published significant works include The Songs of Maldoror(Infinity Land Press), The Flowers of Evil (Incunabula), Speculations(Black S…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/12/02/a-word-as-a-key-opening-a-door-an-interview-with-r-j-dent-matthew-kinlin/
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Joseph Schreiber
27 days ago
"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."
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Eric Williams
about 1 month ago
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)?
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about 2 months ago
"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...
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“It’s not just that the far right is reactionary, that it reacts to something, but it’s a preventive counter-revolution”: An Interview with Jack Z. Bratich — Daniel Lukes
As pundits scramble to define fascism for Trump 2.0, a recent book by media scholar Jack Z. Bratich, investigating the theme of “microfascism,” may come in handy. The term, coined by Gilles Deleuze…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/its-not-just-that-the-far-right-is-reactionary-that-it-reacts-to-something-but-its-a-preventive-counter-revolution-an-interview-with-jack-z-bratich-dani/
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"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...
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“It’s not just that the far right is reactionary, that it reacts to something, but it’s a preventive counter-revolution”: An Interview with Jack Z. Bratich — Daniel Lukes
As pundits scramble to define fascism for Trump 2.0, a recent book by media scholar Jack Z. Bratich, investigating the theme of “microfascism,” may come in handy. The term, coined by Gilles Deleuze…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/its-not-just-that-the-far-right-is-reactionary-that-it-reacts-to-something-but-its-a-preventive-counter-revolution-an-interview-with-jack-z-bratich-dani/
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about 2 months ago
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
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link to donate to local food banks in nj
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Shutdown: Federal employees & SNAP recipients in our state need food
With the federal government shut down, federal workers in New Jersey don’t know when their next paycheck will arrive. And our neighbors who receive food assistance benefits and other federally funded ...
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about 2 months ago
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poemakontsa
2 months ago
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
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2 months ago
“[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...
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“[W]e do inhabit, similar to the the years before modernism, a sense that our world has irrevocably changed”: An Interview with Morten Høi Jensen — Cristina Politano
Morten Høi Jensen is a Danish-American writer whose recent book, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain (Yale University Press, 2025) presents, through the l…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/10/29/an-interview-with-morten-hoi-jensen-cristina-politano/
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Joseph Schreiber
2 months ago
" 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
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my latest interview with the writer
@mortenhoijensen.bsky.social
on his book about thomas mann and the magic mountain
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2 months ago
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2 months ago
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
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Ursula K. Le Guin
2 months ago
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.
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2 months ago
"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...
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“Engineers of the Soul”: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos — Toti O’Brien
Recently hailed by the Italian daily Corriere della Sera as Greece’s probable candidate for a Nobel Prize in Literature, Dimitris Lyacos is one of the most highly regarded European a…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/10/21/engineers-of-the-soul-an-interview-with-dimitris-lyacos-toti-obrien/
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“Engineers of the Soul”: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos — Toti O’Brien
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“Engineers of the Soul”: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos — Toti O’Brien
Recently hailed by the Italian daily Corriere della Sera as Greece’s probable candidate for a Nobel Prize in Literature, Dimitris Lyacos is one of the most highly regarded European a…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/10/21/engineers-of-the-soul-an-interview-with-dimitris-lyacos-toti-obrien/
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if you read one thing today, make it this urgent and lyrical interview between toti o’brien and greek novelist dmitris lyacos
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2 months ago
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Forrest Gander
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2 months ago
and coming up this week ... — Toti O’Brien interviews Dimitris Lyacos — experimental work from
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Ana
2 months ago
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!
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VINELAND EP 4: Keeping it DL (w/Ana Gavrilovska)
Podcast Episode · Slow Learners · 10/16/2025 · 1h 3m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/slow-learners/id1712289025?i=1000732139684
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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️
3 months ago
“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)
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by Gregory Corso
3 months ago
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laszlo krazsnahorkai w/ hari kunzru in the yale review
3 months ago
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by Sylvia Plath, for the season
3 months ago
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really great conversation between
@noonanerik.bsky.social
and al-essa, a kuwaiti bookseller and novelist
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
coming up this week ... — Erik Noonan in conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa — fiction from Matthew Kinlin [@matthewkinlin.bsky.social]
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by Ted Berrigan for National Poetry Day
3 months ago
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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...
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Venus Voluptuous in the Loins of the Last God — Joseph Nechvatal
Nimbus Mimesis Penis and the Velvet Hammer It once was a given that the power of confirmation and denial is vested, not in the ability to connect and become visible, but rather in the ability (and …
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/09/25/venus-voluptuous-in-the-loins-of-the-last-god-joseph-nechvatal/
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"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...
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“What would it look like to just seek absolute stillness?”: An Interview with Austyn Wohlers—Cristina Politano
Austyn Wohlers is a New York-based writer and musician, whose debut novel, Hothouse Bloom, was recently published by Hub City Press. In the novel, Wohlers details the struggle of the protagonist, A…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/09/23/what-would-it-look-like-to-just-seek-absolute-stillness-an-interview-with-austyn-wohlers-cristina-politano/
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"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...
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“What would it look like to just seek absolute stillness?”: An Interview with Austyn Wohlers—Cristina Politano
Austyn Wohlers is a New York-based writer and musician, whose debut novel, Hothouse Bloom, was recently published by Hub City Press. In the novel, Wohlers details the struggle of the protagonist, A…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/09/23/what-would-it-look-like-to-just-seek-absolute-stillness-an-interview-with-austyn-wohlers-cristina-politano/
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“What would it look like to just seek absolute stillness?”: An Interview with Austyn Wohlers —
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“What would it look like to just seek absolute stillness?”: An Interview with Austyn Wohlers—Cristina Politano
Austyn Wohlers is a New York-based writer and musician, whose debut novel, Hothouse Bloom, was recently published by Hub City Press. In the novel, Wohlers details the struggle of the protagonist, A…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/09/23/what-would-it-look-like-to-just-seek-absolute-stillness-an-interview-with-austyn-wohlers-cristina-politano/
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and coming up this week ... —
@monalisavitti.bsky.social
interviews Austyn Wohlers — an extract from new work by Joseph Nechvatal (
@orbistertiuspress.bsky.social
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3 months ago
"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...
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“What do we betray when we refuse to make the ritual sacrifice?:” An Interview with Alina Stefanescu—Cristina Politano
Alina Stefanescu is a Romanian-born poet who resides in Alabama. Her recent poetry collection, My Heresies, was published by Sarabande Press. Her poetry shifts geographical and chronological spaces…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/09/18/what-do-we-betray-when-we-refuse-to-make-the-ritual-sacrifice-an-interview-with-alina-stefanescu-cristina-politano/
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La Doleur Exquisabella
3 months ago
'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
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"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...
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“What do we betray when we refuse to make the ritual sacrifice?:” An Interview with Alina Stefanescu—Cristina Politano
Alina Stefanescu is a Romanian-born poet who resides in Alabama. Her recent poetry collection, My Heresies, was published by Sarabande Press. Her poetry shifts geographical and chronological spaces…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/09/18/what-do-we-betray-when-we-refuse-to-make-the-ritual-sacrifice-an-interview-with-alina-stefanescu-cristina-politano/
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my latest, an interview with the inimitable
@alinaetc.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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4 months ago
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...
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Practicing Dying — Charlotte Northall
The train brakes, pitching my back into the seat’s plush upright. Neither wholly asleep nor awake, I occupy my usual, preferred state: a purgatorial wonderland in which everything appears possible,…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/09/11/practicing-dying-charlotte-northall/
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incoming this week
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"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...
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“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
Tim MacGabhann is a Paris-based Irish writer whose recent memoir, The Black Pool, narrates his hallucination-littered descent into addiction and abjection, as well as his eventual redemption throug…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/09/10/i-cant-write-about-dublin-because-its-been-done-to-death-however-i-can-write-about-the-nothing-that-came-before-and-that-is-coming-after-an-interview-with-tim-macgabhann/
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Joseph Schreiber
4 months ago
“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
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“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
Tim MacGabhann is a Paris-based Irish writer whose recent memoir, The Black Pool, narrates his hallucination-littered descent into addiction and abjection, as well as his eventual redemption throug…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/09/10/i-cant-write-about-dublin-because-its-been-done-to-death-however-i-can-write-about-the-nothing-that-came-before-and-that-is-coming-after-an-interview-with-tim-macgabhann/
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“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
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“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
Tim MacGabhann is a Paris-based Irish writer whose recent memoir, The Black Pool, narrates his hallucination-littered descent into addiction and abjection, as well as his eventual redemption throug…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/09/10/i-cant-write-about-dublin-because-its-been-done-to-death-however-i-can-write-about-the-nothing-that-came-before-and-that-is-coming-after-an-interview-with-tim-macgabhann/
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"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
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“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
Tim MacGabhann is a Paris-based Irish writer whose recent memoir, The Black Pool, narrates his hallucination-littered descent into addiction and abjection, as well as his eventual redemption throug…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/09/10/i-cant-write-about-dublin-because-its-been-done-to-death-however-i-can-write-about-the-nothing-that-came-before-and-that-is-coming-after-an-interview-with-tim-macgabhann/
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"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
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“The heterosexual imagination remains tainted by the idea that female desire is either disgusting or pathological”: An interview with Lou Syrah — Cristina Politano
Lou Syrah is a Paris-based writer and journalist, whose recent novella, Fuck Eat Kill, has been nominated for the Prix Sade, a prestigious literary award for transgressive literature. The granddaug…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/07/24/the-heterosexual-imagination-remains-tainted-by-the-idea-that-female-desire-is-either-disgusting-or-pathological-an-interview-with-lou-syrah-cristina-politano/
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"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
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« L’imaginaire hétérosexuel est encore sali par l’idée que le désir féminin serait soit dégoutant soit pathologique »: Interview avec Lou Syrah — Cristina Politano
Lou Syrah est une écrivaine et journaliste parisienne dont la récente nouvelle, Fuck Eat Kill, a été nominée pour le Prix Sade, une prestigieuse récompense littéraire pour la littérature transgress…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/07/24/limaginaire-heterosexuel-est-encore-sali-par-lidee-que-le-desir-feminin-serait-soit-degoutant-soit-pathologique-interview-avec-lou-syrah-cristina-politano/
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« 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
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« L’imaginaire hétérosexuel est encore sali par l’idée que le désir féminin serait soit dégoutant soit pathologique »: Interview avec Lou Syrah — Cristina Politano
Lou Syrah est une écrivaine et journaliste parisienne dont la récente nouvelle, Fuck Eat Kill, a été nominée pour le Prix Sade, une prestigieuse récompense littéraire pour la littérature transgress…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/07/24/limaginaire-heterosexuel-est-encore-sali-par-lidee-que-le-desir-feminin-serait-soit-degoutant-soit-pathologique-interview-avec-lou-syrah-cristina-politano/
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"The heterosexual imagination remains tainted by the idea that female desire is either disgusting or pathological": An interview with Lou Syrah —
@monalisavitti.bsky.social
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“The heterosexual imagination remains tainted by the idea that female desire is either disgusting or pathological”: An interview with Lou Syrah — Cristina Politano
Lou Syrah is a Paris-based writer and journalist, whose recent novella, Fuck Eat Kill, has been nominated for the Prix Sade, a prestigious literary award for transgressive literature. The granddaug…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/07/24/the-heterosexual-imagination-remains-tainted-by-the-idea-that-female-desire-is-either-disgusting-or-pathological-an-interview-with-lou-syrah-cristina-politano/
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5 months ago
don't forget, we're open for submissions of fiction, essays and experimental work throughout August ... details & guidelines for all calls here:
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Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
https://oleada.io/publication/minor-literatures
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6 months ago
and we'll have more next week when
@monalisavitti.bsky.social
interviews journalist, author, and chair of the Wittkop Society, Lou Syrah ...
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