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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

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 1d

"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 · 1d

"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 · 1d

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 · 1d

"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 · 1d

"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 …

minor literature[s] | Substack

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 3d

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

minorliteratures.com/2025/09/30/t...

— alphabetical images from @eoghancarrick.bsky.social

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

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 · 5d

"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 · 5d

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 · 5d

get in touch for details

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 5d

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

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

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 5d

get in touch for details

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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

Monthly Dispatch #27 — September 2025

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

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

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 6d

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

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

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

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 7d

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 6d

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

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

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

"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

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

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…