Tobias Ryan
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writer, translator | editor
@minorliteratures.bsky.social
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Attic Scraps | various writings
tobiasryan.substack.com
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Attic Scraps | Tobias Ryan | Substack
various writings. Click to read Attic Scraps, by Tobias Ryan, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
https://tobiasryan.substack.com
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and coming up this week ... — new fiction from Perry Ruhland — Gabriela Denise Frank traverses the date line
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last week @ Minor Lits ... — experimental poetry from Elnura Huseynova
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— Anna Evans on Anna Kavan
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In a nameless place: some notes on reading Anna Kavan’s Asylum Piece — Anna Evans
It was the woolgathering, of course, the preoccupation with non-human things, the interest in the wrong place… What I think of is fragments dispersed by the wind and left behind. A word that conjur…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/11/13/in-a-nameless-place-some-notes-on-reading-anna-kavans-asylum-piece-anna-evans/
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In A Nameless Place: Some Notes on Reading Anna Kavan’s Asylum Piece — Anna Evans
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In a nameless place: some notes on reading Anna Kavan’s Asylum Piece — Anna Evans
It was the woolgathering, of course, the preoccupation with non-human things, the interest in the wrong place… What I think of is fragments dispersed by the wind and left behind. A word that conjur…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/11/13/in-a-nameless-place-some-notes-on-reading-anna-kavans-asylum-piece-anna-evans/
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another
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mention, this time from
@badaude.bsky.social
's AMATEURS! (
@versobooks.bsky.social
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ATTENTION SPAN et al — Elnura Huseynova
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ATTENTION SPAN et al — Elnura Huseynova
stay for a moment hey november as slipping through your fingers but moving on movement tilts a stroke of time moving as it is one after another which blows statues as if immune to others for you ha…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/11/11/attention-span-et-al-elnura-huseynova/
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... it was all happening
@minorincident.bsky.social
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this and the text it accompanied are my favourite things I've made
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Em - YouTube
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAOtrxxvn0moTHdWCRU6pDLKE_VDLwL0x&si=_axqlrO9G7JgLvHo
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"This is an expressionism-adjacent headzone that a lot of Anglophone writers can’t bear to stay in, or else can’t manage to put words on without reducing to an ahistorical kitsch ..." Tim MacGabhann on GLANTZ @ 3:AM Magazine
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and coming up this week ... — experimental poetry from Elnura Huseynova — Anna Evans on Ana Kavan
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ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ... — Jack Z. Bratich interviewed by
@morbidhegel.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/i...
— an extract from Nebojša Lujanović's CLOUD THE COLOR OF SKIN, translated by
@enaselimo.bsky.social
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Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. Ena Selimović)
There was nothing new in Fabo’s story about the car. He always launched into it by tightening and slackening his grip around the steering wheel with its treasured leather cover. Aaaay, those Bosnia…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/cloud-the-color-of-skin-nebojsa-lujanovic-tr-ena-selimovic/
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"This isn’t a God-abandoned humanity — or, at least, it’s not just that ..."
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/glantz-a...
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"This is an expressionism-adjacent headzone that a lot of Anglophone writers can’t bear to stay in, or else can’t manage to put words on without reducing to an ahistorical kitsch ..." Tim MacGabhann on GLANTZ @ 3:AM Magazine
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incredibly grateful to Tim MacGabhann for this essay on my novel GLANTZ (coming soon from Equus Press) now up 3:AM Magazine (with thanks to
@andrewgallix.bsky.social
too)
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/glantz-a...
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Glantz: An Appreciation – 3:AM Magazine
This is an expressionism-adjacent headzone that a lot of Anglophone writers can't bear to stay in, or else can't manage to put words on without reducing to an ahistorical kitsch. Ryan is a far more ad...
https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/glantz-an-appreciation/
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"This isn’t a God-abandoned humanity — or, at least, it’s not just that ..."
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incredibly grateful to Tim MacGabhann for this essay on my novel GLANTZ (coming soon from Equus Press) now up 3:AM Magazine (with thanks to
@andrewgallix.bsky.social
too)
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/glantz-a...
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Glantz: An Appreciation – 3:AM Magazine
This is an expressionism-adjacent headzone that a lot of Anglophone writers can't bear to stay in, or else can't manage to put words on without reducing to an ahistorical kitsch. Ryan is a far more ad...
https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/glantz-an-appreciation/
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congratulations to
@cdrose.bsky.social
! read a story from his collection 'Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea' here:
minorliteratures.com/2024/02/15/i...
add a skeleton here at some point
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Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr.
@enaselimo.bsky.social
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minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/c...
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Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. Ena Selimović)
There was nothing new in Fabo’s story about the car. He always launched into it by tightening and slackening his grip around the steering wheel with its treasured leather cover. Aaaay, those Bosnia…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/cloud-the-color-of-skin-nebojsa-lujanovic-tr-ena-selimovic/
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a huge thank you to Christina Cacouris, Eve Hill-Agnus, Lisa Robertson and Greg Gerke for their reading/discussion last night, and to Ben and Millie for hosting here's to the next one ...
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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
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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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hugely grateful to
@benlibman.bsky.social
, whose insights were formative from the earliest draft
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hugely grateful to
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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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ALSO! Monthly Dispatch #28 — feat. everything we published in October & more — went out ...
minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-di...
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Monthly Dispatch #28 — October 2025
A letter from the editor[s]
https://minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-dispatch-28-october-2025?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
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last week @ Minor Lits ... — poetic prose from
@dluntz.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/28/t...
—
@mortenhoijensen.bsky.social
interviewed by
@monalisavitti.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/29/a...
— new fiction from Mikra Namani
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/30/t...
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The Sentimental Monster — Mikra Namani
“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind…” Dear Mother, I am often reminded of King Solomon’s proverb whenever I think of the history and trajectory of our family, our lives, and all…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/10/30/the-sentimental-monster-mikra-namani/
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Death & the Teacher the third chapter from my work-in-progress, 'Danse Macabre' @ Attic Scraps
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Death & the Teacher the third chapter from my work-in-progress, 'Danse Macabre' @ Attic Scraps
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« Je n'ai pas d' autre recours que de désirer, de me dépasser moi-même à force de désir, de rêve et d' espoir, de désirer et de posséder mon désır. » — Barbusse
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Monthly Dispatch #28 — October 2025
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Monthly Dispatch #28 — October 2025
A letter from the editor[s]
https://minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-dispatch-28-october-2025
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"I’d show you my modest library, a playhouse fantasy fitting in as a poor substitute for the lost sanctuary of my youth. Or maybe it’s more than that." The Sentimental Monster — Mikra Namani
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The Sentimental Monster — Mikra Namani
“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind…” Dear Mother, I am often reminded of King Solomon’s proverb whenever I think of the history and trajectory of our family, our lives, and all…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/10/30/the-sentimental-monster-mikra-namani/
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The Sentimental Monster — Mikra Namani
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The Sentimental Monster — Mikra Namani
“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind…” Dear Mother, I am often reminded of this King Solomon’s proverb whenever I think of the history and trajectory of our family, our lives, an…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/10/30/the-sentimental-monster-mikra-namani/
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