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Sagging Meniscus @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks to Michael Hughes, currently appearing in #houseofguinness and author of COUNTRY, for reading this passage from THE COAST OF EVERYTHING by Guillermo Stitch.

Preorder the novel at https://thecoastofeverything.com.

Michael Hughes Reads From Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING

Thanks to Michael Hughes, currently appearing in #houseofguinness and author of COUNTRY, for reading this passage from THE COAST OF EVERYTHING by Guillermo S...

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DJ Huppatz @djhuppatz.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks so much @exactingclam.bsky.social. Finally, the true story about the creator of Bitcoin is out in the world!

A cover of the literary magazine Exacting Clam.

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Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com · 14d

My micro-garble on friendship for @exactingclam.bsky.social upcoming Dada issue contains 18 hyphens. Here’s a sneak peek:
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Sagging Meniscus @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social · 16d

Great day at @bkbookfest.bsky.social yesterday. 21 attendees recorded readings from our books at our booth. Here's Laura reading Melissa McCarthy. youtube.com/shorts/-jTUd...

2025 Brooklyn Book Festival Booth Reading: Laura Reads Melissa McCarthy's PHOTO, PHYTO, PROTO, NITRO

YouTube video by Sagging Meniscus

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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 17d

Ian Monk, poète, traducteur en anglais de Perec et de Pennac, est mort

Homme à la fois drôle et désespéré, membre de l’Oulipo, il avait choisi d’écrire en français pour se libérer du bagage culturel britannique. Il s’est éteint à 65 ans.

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Sagging Meniscus @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social · 18d

New Yorkers: please come say hello tomorrow (Sunday, Sep. 20) at the Brooklyn Book Festival. We'll be at Booth 333 with books old, new and forthcoming, and we'll have a video giveaway: read an excerpt on camera, get a book. @bkbookfest.bsky.social

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Sagging Meniscus @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social · 18d

Ian Monk talking about translation and formal constraints: youtu.be/eQC5pp5wT9g?...

Ian Monk (with English subtitles)

YouTube video by Margarita Saad Plasticienne

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Sagging Meniscus @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social · 18d

Sad news today —

Jean-noël Lafargue @jean-no.bsky.social · 18d

Décès de l'OuLiPien (coopté en 1998) Ian Monk, poète, et par ailleurs traducteur vers l'anglais de Georges Perec, Raymond Roussel, Hervé Le Tellier, Frédéric Forte, Jacques Roubaud, Daniel Pennac, et même Hugo Pratt...

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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 20d

'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

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

“What do we betray when we refuse to make the ritual sacrifice?:” An Interview with @alinaetc.bsky.social — @monalisavitti.bsky.social

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“What do we betray when we refuse to make the ritual sacrifice?:” An Interview with Alina Stefanescu—Cristina Politano

Alina Stefanescu is a Romanian-born poet who resides in Alabama. Her recent poetry collection, My Heresies, was published by Sarabande Press. Her poetry shifts geographical and chronological spaces…

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Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · 20d

"The best poems inspire envy."

As do the best poets. Mike Silverton, Exacting Clam 18.

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https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/more-enduring-than-a-diamond/

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Sagging Meniscus @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social · 21d

Cover reveal: Joseph D. Reich's monumental SCENES FROM THE PLANET EARTH, a book-length poem, coming in October. Preorders at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: asterismbooks.com/product/scen...

Book cover of Joseph D. Reich's SCENES FROM THE PLANET EARTH.

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Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · 21d

"every word Ophelia speaks, whether in the Second Quarto text or the First Folio, has to make its appearance in 'let me tell you'."

WJ Davies and Paul Griffiths on the latter's Ophelian (and somewhat Oulipian) novels.

https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/constraint-and-release/

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Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · 22d

"I have previously stated that it is impossible to go to Brezakia. But it is possible to come from there."

Ron Ginzler on the little-known musical legacy of an even-less-known country.

https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/the-brezakian-symphony/

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Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · 22d

Our editor spills out on Substack.

Sagging Meniscus @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social · 22d

Get thee to @guillermostitch.bsky.social's substack, where he tells all and tells nothing and reveals his tattoos.

Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 22d

The Coast of Everything

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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 22d

The Coast of Everything

The Bab was Moonlit Milkish Blue

Coast Lines. See?

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Addison Zeller @addisonzeller.bsky.social · 23d

Got a piece in @exactingclam.bsky.social

Here’s proof

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Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · 23d

“My identity is not fully understood,” Issue 18 added.

And may never be. More Christopher Boucher metamagic. Exacting Clam 18.

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https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/the-book-and-the-sea/

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Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · 24d

"It was in the castle of Tiffauges, the lair of Gilles de Rais, that I first encountered the sinister truth regarding that terror-stricken head . . . "

A new translation of Jean Lorrain, by RJ Dent. Exacting Clam 18.

https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/the-man-who-made-wax-heads/

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Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · 25d

"Neither Shirley with her black coffee nor Mrs. Castle with her two eclairs stand on ceremony."

Kat Meads on Mavis Gallant's 'A Fairly Good Time', from NYRB Classics.

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https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/anatomy-of-a-scene/

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Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · 26d

"No, here we have controlled scripting, deracinated sentences minus jouissance that audit a world gone wrong, gone bad . . . "

Michael Hampton on Sean Ashton's 'Massive Massive Oil Slick'.

https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/sean-ashtons-emmassive-massive-oil-slickem/

Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · 27d

"He embodied, more inescapably than anyone else, the absurdities, the affectations, the paradoxes and the perversities of the Decadent lifestyle and the Decadent world-view."

RJ Dent on Jean Lorrain. Exacting Clam 18.

https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/jean-lorrain/

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Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · 28d

"I don’t think Homer has it quite right: with Circe’s first ointment (yes ok oinkment) the sailors don’t actually forget, they’ve just changed a bit."

Another Melissa McCarthy odyssey. Exacting Clam 18.

https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/category-errors/

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Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · 29d

(Many of these essays appeared first in Exacting Clam)

Sagging Meniscus @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social · 29d

Published today: Jake Goldsmith's IN EXTREMIS: brilliant essays on cultural decline and what may sustain us through it, and even on the pleasures of annoyance and the tendency to judge bookshelves. https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_extremis/

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Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · 29d

" . . . a distillation of historical consciousness into poetry."

Charles Holdefer on 'A Black Doe in the Anthropocene' by Artress Bethany White. Exacting Clam 18.

https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/artress-bethany-whites-ema-black-doe-in-the-anthropoceneem/

Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · Sep 8

"We were like two nations
at war:
he some mysterious Greek,
I his Turkey."

Where is PJ Blumenthal going with this? Exacting Clam 18.

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https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-18-autumn-2025/why-i-killed-pasolini/

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