Tobias Ryan

Mine has lasted 30+ years

paying respects

Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham What does anybody know about Irmgard Keun? Failed actress, encouraged by Alfred Döblin to write. A darling of Weimar, her first novel Gilgi a sensation, turned into a film. Falsely accused of plagi…

"What does anybody know about Irmgard Keun? Failed actress, encouraged by Alfred Döblin to write. A darling of Weimar, her first novel Gilgi a sensation, turned into a film. Falsely accused of plagiarism for her second. Banned by the Nazis ..."

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Le Brun

António Lobo Antunes
RIP

Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham What does anybody know about Irmgard Keun? Failed actress, encouraged by Alfred Döblin to write. A darling of Weimar, her first novel Gilgi a sensation, turned into a film. Falsely accused of plagi…

Manic Joy: Irmgard Keun and the Politics of Life Under/Over Fascism — Simon Wortham

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Scorn not his comorbidities

People should take advantage of this generous offer from Toby. Glantz is a disconcerting book, right down to the level of sentence structure, that thrusts you right into the contingency of the world, where the only certainty feels like a monolithic yet somehow inchoate sense of oppression.

Thank you, Liam!

Two Poems — t.r. san test (the only one) did you exist in the past—yes—[] have had having(had &) whenthe body has materialwants mother matter;having (had) lets me bewhen [] did notare you—[] i ?—pitch information c…

"a nothing here, so absolute it’s like waves, automated
-collapsing-gone-backagain-repeat ..."

Two Poems — @thoushallkill.bsky.social

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Two Poems — t.r. san test (the only one) did you exist in the past—yes—[] have had having(had &) whenthe body has materialwants mother matter;having (had) lets me bewhen [] did notare you—[] i ?—pitch information c…

Two Poems — t.r. san ( @thoushallkill.bsky.social )

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call for submissions

PLAGIARI[S]M
edited by @benlibman.bsky.social

opens 16/03

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looks almost like a nice normal bloke here

a book and its bookmarks

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

and coming up this week

— experimental writing from @thoushallkill.bsky.social

— Simon Wortham on Irmagard Keun

Monthly Dispatch #32 — February 2026 A letter from the editor[s]

ALSO! Monthly Dispatch #32 — feat. everything we published in February — went live ...

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A Short Post-Poetic Essay on Current Digital Methods of Culling — 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 ...

— @delfanbaum.bsky.social interviews @raviddice.bsky.social

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— Michael Templeton on digital culling

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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 ....

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...

Monthly Dispatch #32 — 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 — 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 — @mwtempleton.bsky.social

"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 ..."

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