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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 12h

"Tramadol. Zopiclone. Diazepam. We want to sleep for good inside an endless blue afternoon. Valium is our glorious cousin ..."

Beyond Grandeur

@desperatelit.bsky.social Prize short-listed fiction from @matthewkinlin.bsky.social

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Rhinoplasty. Cheek implants. Ultra-sonic assisted liposuction. A purple exoskeleton was admitted to the clinic last week. His name is Robert and he’s the oldest twink in Cheshire. They washed his s…

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 11h

"To be beautiful is to become a satellite."

Beyond Grandeur — Matthew Kinlin minorliteratures.com/2025/10/09/b...

Rhinoplasty. Cheek implants. Ultra-sonic assisted liposuction. A purple exoskeleton was admitted to the clinic last week. His name is Robert and he’s the oldest twink in Cheshire. They washed his s…

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 12h

"Tramadol. Zopiclone. Diazepam. We want to sleep for good inside an endless blue afternoon. Valium is our glorious cousin ..."

Beyond Grandeur

@desperatelit.bsky.social Prize short-listed fiction from @matthewkinlin.bsky.social

minorliteratures.com/2025/10/09/b...

Rhinoplasty. Cheek implants. Ultra-sonic assisted liposuction. A purple exoskeleton was admitted to the clinic last week. His name is Robert and he’s the oldest twink in Cheshire. They washed his s…

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 16h

If you're excited by long-haired literary men being in the spotlight, come along and see me talk with the ‘Kilkenny Krasznahorkai’ @elfodongo.bsky.social tonight!

Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 1d

Berlin pals, this is happening tomorrow! Please come along. The book is great and Tim is very funny and eloquent. It’ll be nice.

Me and Tim MacGabhann talking about his memoir THE BLACK POOL at Shakespeare and Sons on Oct 9th 18:45

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 17h

"Rhinoplasty. Cheek implants. Ultra-sonic assisted liposuction. A purple exoskeleton was admitted to the clinic last week. His name is Robert and he’s the oldest twink in Cheshire ..."

Beyond Grandeur — @matthewkinlin.bsky.social

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Rhinoplasty. Cheek implants. Ultra-sonic assisted liposuction. A purple exoskeleton was admitted to the clinic last week. His name is Robert and he’s the oldest twink in Cheshire. They washed his s…

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 21h

Beyond Grandeur was shortlisted for the 2025 @desperatelit.bsky.social Prize, judged by Henry Hoke, Mariana Enríquez, and Ottessa Moshfegh.

11 Stories, including Matthew’s story and the rest of the shortlist, is available now.

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 21h

Beyond Grandeur — @matthewkinlin.bsky.social

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Rhinoplasty. Cheek implants. Ultra-sonic assisted liposuction. A purple exoskeleton was admitted to the clinic last week. His name is Robert and he’s the oldest twink in Cheshire. They washed his s…

“[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

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 2d

"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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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—Erik Noonan

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 2d

“[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

minorliteratures.com/2025/10/07/l...

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—Erik Noonan

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 2d

"we’re divided when it comes to being powerful in a good way, or powerful in a bad way. In the end, whoever has the power, whoever has the authority, gets to decide, gets to dictate the ideology of others."
—@noonanerik.bsky.social speaks to Bothayna Al-Essa, author of The Book Censor's Library

minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 2d

“[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

minorliteratures.com/2025/10/07/l...

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—Erik Noonan

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monalisa vitti @monalisavitti.bsky.social · 2d

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

minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 2d

“[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

minorliteratures.com/2025/10/07/l...

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—Erik Noonan

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 2d

"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

minorliteratures.com/2025/10/07/l...

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—Erik Noonan

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 2d

"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

minorliteratures.com/2025/10/07/l...

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—Erik Noonan

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 2d

“[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

minorliteratures.com/2025/10/07/l...

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 …

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 4d

coming up this week ...

— Erik Noonan in conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa

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

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 4d

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

read/sign up here:

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

[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — Eoghan Carrick

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 4d

last week @ minor lits ...

— new fiction from @robrubsam.bsky.social

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— alphabetical images from @eoghancarrick.bsky.social

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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…

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Eric T. Racher @ericracher.bsky.social · 6d

"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."

minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 6d

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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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 6d

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 6d

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 ...

minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-di...

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 6d

Monthly Dispatch #27 — September 2025

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 6d

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 6d

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 ...

minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-di...

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 6d

@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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