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11. Nothing Grows by Moonlight by Torborg Nedreaas (tr. Bibbi Lee). One woman’s immersive monologue recounting the wounding love affair that has shaped her life brims with arresting philosophical aperçus, freighted by a keen sensitivity to the injustices of capitalist existence.
February 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
A.V. Marraccini is a writer, based in New York who has had their essay "Mutta on toisia geometrioita" translated & published in Finland, by the press Poesia.

I chatted with A.V. & Poesia's Erkka Filander (who is a Runeberg prize nominated poet himself).

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In Conversation with A.V. Marraccini & Erkka Filander.
By Gregory Conway. A.V. Marraccini (she/her) is critic, art historian and essayist based in New York. I came across their work through their wonderful book We The Parasites (2023), out in Canada on…
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December 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Per Esben Svelstad holds a Ph.D. on the Norwegian writer Åsmund Sveen. He works in the topics of ecocriticism, queer reading, literary education and more.

I interviewed him about his 2024 book "Same-Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature, 1908–1979"

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In Conversation With Per Esben Svelstad.
By Gregory Conway Per Esben Svelstad is a Professor at NTNU, Norway. In 2017 he completed a queer theory focused Ph.D. on the Norwegian writer Åsmund Sveen. He works around the topics of ecocritici…
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December 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
some recent nordic reads
December 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
quietly put some new stuff on the website:

an interview with edy poppy, who just released their new book with dalkey / deep vellum.

+ reviews of both their new book coming. apart. & their debut, anatomy. monotony.

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November 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM