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« 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

Saturday at 7

"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

“[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