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Tobias Ryan

@tobiasvryan.bsky.social

writer, translator | editor @minorliteratures.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/tobiasvryan

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

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and coming up this week

β€” experimental writing from @thoushallkill.bsky.social

β€” Simon Wortham on Irmagard Keun

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Monthly Dispatch #32 β€” February 2026 A letter from the editor[s]

ALSO! Monthly Dispatch #32 β€” feat. everything we published in February β€” went live ...

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A Short Post-Poetic Essay on Current Digital Methods of Culling β€” Michael Templeton The Word The entire process depends on the use and placement of specific key words. It is possible that the process can have begun many years prior to this moment in the present; that the concatena…

last week @ minor lits ...

β€” @delfanbaum.bsky.social interviews @raviddice.bsky.social

minorliteratures.com/2026/02/24/h...

β€” Michael Templeton on digital culling

minorliteratures.com/2026/02/26/a...

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parents were coming back from a trip via Doha, have been diverted to Muscat, no Internet and phone is running out of battery so he's prioritising ....

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This interview of Anne Serre in @minorliteratures.bsky.social by @tobiasvryan.bsky.social had me setting off for the library yesterday. Halfway thru A Leopard-Skin Hat...

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Monthly Dispatch #32 β€” February 2026 A letter from the editor[s]

Monthly Dispatch #32

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A Short Post-Poetic Essay on Current Digital Methods of Culling β€” Michael Templeton The Word The entire process depends on the use and placement of specific key words. It is possible that the process can have begun many years prior to this moment in the present; that the concatena…

"Deep within the well of language is this monstrous drive which is present within the images, the phantasms which function as the supplement for the object."

A Short Post-Poetic Essay on Current Digital Methods of Culling β€” @mwtempleton.bsky.social

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"When it comes down to it, transgressors need the aristocratic discretion of mafiosi to become saboteurs of dreams, laws, and language itself; which is to say ... to slyly become a writer who fucks with literature ..."

@autreauxp.bsky.social

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minor impromptu
31/03
ft. Alice Blackhurst, @benlibman.bsky.social and Tim MacGabhann

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A Short Post-Poetic Essay on Current Digital Methods of Culling β€” Michael Templeton The Word The entire process depends on the use and placement of specific key words. It is possible that the process can have begun many years prior to this moment in the present; that the concatena…

A Short Post-Poetic Essay on Current Digital Methods of Culling β€” Michael Templeton

minorliteratures.com/2026/02/26/a...

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minor literature[s] | Substack minor literatures ; stuttering cultures. Click to read minor literature[s], a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

this Friday Monthly Dispatch #32 β€” ft. everything we published in February & more ... β€” goes live ...

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mood

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fiction @minorliteratures.bsky.social covered for the foreseeable ...

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Holy, Undead Life: An Interview with David Leo Rice β€” Danny Elfanbaum David Leo Rice’s The Squimbop Condition is in many ways a culmination, a capstone on one phase of his career, and at the same time, a hint at which of the many forking paths he may travel going for…

"here, almost like a deathbed vision of your life passing before your eyes one last time, I wanted to draw together a lot of themes, ideas, stylistic tendencies, characters, and locations ..."

An Interview with @raviddice.bsky.social β€” @delfanbaum.bsky.social

minorliteratures.com/2026/02/24/h...

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a book for all seasons

www.lulu.com/shop/tobias-...

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Oi quick question! What's a great opening? For an extra scoop of Auflauf, we asked some mates how best to begin.

Not often you seen "Oi!" in European cultural discourse: it can only be @ajbwells.bsky.social, here with his "extra scoop of Auflauf": namely on great book openings... theauflauf.substack.com/p/oi-quick-q...

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Holy, Undead Life: An Interview with David Leo Rice β€” Danny Elfanbaum David Leo Rice’s The Squimbop Condition is in many ways a culmination, a capstone on one phase of his career, and at the same time, a hint at which of the many forking paths he may travel going for…

Holy, Undead Life: An Interview with @raviddice.bsky.social β€” @delfanbaum.bsky.social

minorliteratures.com/2026/02/24/h...

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Lithograph showing a dapper young moustachioed man leaning on a table writing, apparently looking for inspiration

Lithograph showing a dapper young moustachioed man leaning on a table writing, apparently looking for inspiration

Hesiquio Iriarte, "The Bad Poet," c. 1855

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a book for all seasons

www.lulu.com/shop/tobias-...

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lots to look forward to ....

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if anyone wants a pdf, get in touch

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minor literature[s] | Substack minor literatures ; stuttering cultures. Click to read minor literature[s], a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

ALSO! Monthly Dispatch #32 β€” ft. @yanisiqbal.bsky.social Michael Templeton, @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social @farsouthproject.bsky.social @djamelbouchenaki.bsky.social @kentkosack.bsky.social @stuhennigan.bsky.social @badaude.bsky.social @raviddice.bsky.social +

out Friday

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and coming up this week ...

β€” an interview with @raviddice.bsky.social

β€” Mike Templeton on digital culling

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Billy Sticks β€” Des Barry Hello my name is Billy Sticks Tar baby stuck in the mud, cloying shit, time to get out from under the English oak transplanted here, 14,000 miles from home soil. Or thereabouts. I was born in the g…

ICYMI β€” last week @ minor lits ...

β€” @kentkosack.bsky.social on reading and vision

minorliteratures.com/2026/02/17/r...

β€” an extract from KESHED by @stuhennigan.bsky.social

minorliteratures.com/2026/02/18/k...

β€” new fiction from @farsouthproject.bsky.social

minorliteratures.com/2026/02/19/b...

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I need to read Lisa's book I need to read Nicole's book I need to read Khushwant's book I need to read Maurice's book I need to read Kinga's book I need to read Alice's book I need to read Dionys' book I need to read his book I need to read their book I need to read her book I need to read your book

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