minor literature[s]

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

“[Literature is] a dance around silence, an attempt to get closer to what we are not saying”: A Conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa—Erik Noonan Anglophone audiences first encountered the Kuwaiti novelist, publisher, and bookseller Bothanya Al-Essa through excerpts of her 2004 novel A Soundless Collision (trans. Chris Bredin), published in …

"It’s fun not just to have different forms, but also to have different languages [...] The way they sound, the way they whisper in your ear, is like a different language speaking to you every time, customized to that particular world ..."

— Bothayna Al-Essa

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“[Literature is] a dance around silence, an attempt to get closer to what we are not saying”: A Conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa—Erik Noonan Anglophone audiences first encountered the Kuwaiti novelist, publisher, and bookseller Bothanya Al-Essa through excerpts of her 2004 novel A Soundless Collision (trans. Chris Bredin), published in …

"Sometimes I say I write books because I have questions, and I try to answer them, but I rarely answer them. It always gets more complex ..."

@noonanerik.bsky.social in conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa

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“[Literature is] a dance around silence, an attempt to get closer to what we are not saying”: A Conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa—Erik Noonan Anglophone audiences first encountered the Kuwaiti novelist, publisher, and bookseller Bothanya Al-Essa through excerpts of her 2004 novel A Soundless Collision (trans. Chris Bredin), published in …

“[Literature is] a dance around silence, an attempt to get closer to what we are not saying”: A Conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa — @noonanerik.bsky.social

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coming up this week ...

— Erik Noonan in conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa

— fiction from Matthew Kinlin [@matthewkinlin.bsky.social]

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AND! Monthly Dispatch #27 — feat. everything we published in September — went out ...

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[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — Eoghan Carrick from Alphabet with Dance of Death, Hans Holbein the Younger   Chronically cash-strapped, the Emperor [Maximilian I] stimulated contemporary local artists […] to try out new techniques and form…

last week @ minor lits ...

— new fiction from @robrubsam.bsky.social

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— alphabetical images from @eoghancarrick.bsky.social

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"Abandon the conviction that success, by any metric the industry approves, has worth. Buy books second-hand, share them with your friends, pirate. Read less [...]; read better."

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Monthly Dispatch #27 — September 2025 A letter from the editor[s]

Monthly Dispatch #27 —
ft. @addisonzeller.bsky.social
@robrubsam.bsky.social
@andrewgallix.bsky.social Charlotte Northall, Adam Judah Krasnoff, Joseph Nechvatal, Tim MacGabhann @alinaetc.bsky.social Austyn Wohlers, reviews & more — now up ...

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Monthly Dispatch #27 — September 2025 A letter from the editor[s]

Monthly Dispatch #27 — September 2025

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get in touch for details

Monthly Dispatch #27 — September 2025 A letter from the editor[s]

Monthly Dispatch #27 —
ft. @addisonzeller.bsky.social
@robrubsam.bsky.social
@andrewgallix.bsky.social Charlotte Northall, Adam Judah Krasnoff, Joseph Nechvatal, Tim MacGabhann @alinaetc.bsky.social Austyn Wohlers, reviews & more — now up ...

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Monthly Dispatch #27 — September 2025 A letter from the editor[s]

@minorliteratures.bsky.social bang on the [lack of] money, depressingly so, altho i think the majority of us inc the editors have known this to be self-evident for way too long now.

The Cleveland Review of Books piece it links to is REALLY grim too.

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Monthly Dispatch #27 — September 2025 A letter from the editor[s]

Monthly Dispatch #27 — September 2025

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A complete alphabet in satellite images along with poetry and prose. Be sure to open the PDF!

[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — Eoghan Carrick from Alphabet with Dance of Death, Hans Holbein the Younger   Chronically cash-strapped, the Emperor [Maximilian I] stimulated contemporary local artists […] to try out new techniques and form…

[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — Eoghan Carrick ( @eoghancarrick.bsky.social )

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[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — Eoghan Carrick from Alphabet with Dance of Death, Hans Holbein the Younger   Chronically cash-strapped, the Emperor [Maximilian I] stimulated contemporary local artists […] to try out new techniques and form…

"in each letter reflect / yourself / in conversation / with the hierarchy of society / dancing cradle to cradle / with sureness and economy / with richness and purity of line /"

[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — @eoghancarrick.bsky.social

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[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — Eoghan Carrick from Alphabet with Dance of Death, Hans Holbein the Younger   Chronically cash-strapped, the Emperor [Maximilian I] stimulated contemporary local artists […] to try out new techniques and form…

"Chronically cash-strapped, the Emperor [Maximilian I] stimulated contemporary local artists […] to try out new techniques and formats to systematically glorify his rule ..."

[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — @eoghancarrick.bsky.social

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goes out tomorrow ....

[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — Eoghan Carrick from Alphabet with Dance of Death, Hans Holbein the Younger   Chronically cash-strapped, the Emperor [Maximilian I] stimulated contemporary local artists […] to try out new techniques and form…

"in each letter reflect / yourself / in conversation / with the hierarchy of society / dancing cradle to cradle / with sureness and economy / with richness and purity of line /"

[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — @eoghancarrick.bsky.social

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This is so up my street, I love it — unravel the pdf, it’s worth it.

*tiny @minorlits.bsky.social skip of delight*

[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — Eoghan Carrick from Alphabet with Dance of Death, Hans Holbein the Younger   Chronically cash-strapped, the Emperor [Maximilian I] stimulated contemporary local artists […] to try out new techniques and form…

"Chronically cash-strapped, the Emperor [Maximilian I] stimulated contemporary local artists […] to try out new techniques and formats to systematically glorify his rule ..."

[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — @eoghancarrick.bsky.social

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[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — a cross genre essay in images and words by Eoghan Carrick @eoghancarrick.bsky.social

goes out tomorrow ....

[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — a cross genre essay in images and words by Eoghan Carrick @eoghancarrick.bsky.social

👀

[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — Eoghan Carrick from Alphabet with Dance of Death, Hans Holbein the Younger   Chronically cash-strapped, the Emperor [Maximilian I] stimulated contemporary local artists […] to try out new techniques and form…

[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — Eoghan Carrick ( @eoghancarrick.bsky.social )

minorliteratures.com/2025/10/02/u...

big old October coming up ...