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Israel A. Bonilla
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A Biography in Ten Objects
November 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Here is an excerpt from Cityscape with Sybarites, my second novel: yourimpossiblevoice.com/from-citysca...

As ever, very grateful to Alvin and Keith.
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
[Review]

Hugh Blanton — Your Impossible Voice

yourimpossiblevoice.com/flauberts-he...
November 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
[Review]

Eric T. Racher — Exacting Clam, Issue 16

www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-16...
November 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
It has been a year since the publication of Sleep Decades (@malarkeybooks.bsky.social), my debut short story collection. Throughout the month, I will be sharing a couple of reviews and some notes on the stories.

malarkeybooks.com/sleep-decades
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Melville indulging his inner (and always irrepressible) Thersites—
October 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
A dialogue on Luigi Pirandello's The Late Mattia Pascal: israelabonilla.wixsite.com/website/post...
August 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Waddington
June 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Undoubtedly wise. And yet there's Hazlitt's enticing portrait of the other side—
June 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
New excerpt from Phoretics (@paradiseeditions.bsky.social) in @minorliteratures.bsky.social: minorliteratures.com/2025/06/19/p...

A playful set of aphorisms on the interstices of Hazlitt's oeuvre.

It's always a pleasure to appear in such an out-of-the-way magazine.
June 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
New poem in the latest issue of RIC journal: ricjournal.com/2025/06/06/d...
June 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Seven months—and a small but altogether lively group of readers.

malarkeybooks.com/sleep-decades
June 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
A few copies left of this limited run (@paradiseeditions.bsky.social): asterismbooks.com/product/phor...
May 28, 2025 at 1:32 AM
It was a pleasure working with Matthew—he is a great designer and editor.
May 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
A passage from Sleep Decades:

asterismbooks.com/product/slee...
March 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I have four poems in the new issue of Copihue Poetry: www.copihuepoetry.com/profesor.

They're part of "Versiones del desencanto," a small volume of poetry I wrote when I was twenty-three. Disquieting days, those.
February 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I encourage you to support Malarkey Books. Few in the business will publish a paragraph like this—
December 29, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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December 19, 2024 at 5:32 AM
Some notes in dialogue with Goethe's works: israelabonilla.wixsite.com/website/post....
December 14, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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December 5, 2024 at 12:19 AM
I wrote an essay on Balbuena's Grandeur of Mexico for the new issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social. If you're interested in the Baroque, in the problem of the audience, in the Viceroyalty of New Spain, in Sor Juana, there's something for you here:
exactingclam.com/issues/no-15....
December 1, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Pío Baroja [1872-1956], The Bum (Essay): israelabonilla.wixsite.com/website/post....
November 29, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Julio Torri [1889-1970], In Praise of the Contrarian Spirit (Essay): israelabonilla.wixsite.com/website/post....
November 29, 2024 at 12:49 AM