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monalisa vitti
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aka cristina politano // essay and fiction writer // interviews for minor lits
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monalisa vitti @monalisavitti.bsky.social · Mar 19
my latest essay is up in issue 19 of cordella.org
Cordella Press
A biannual online publication with an annual print edition, featuring the work of women-identified and nonbinary creatives.
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"The classical carnivalesque reverses power relations. So, the right flipped the flip, and thus it becomes a punching-down version of the carnivalesque; the cruelty becomes part of that reversed affect."

Jack Z. Bratich talks to Daniel Lukes

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“It’s not just that the far right is reactionary, that it reacts to something, but it’s a preventive counter-revolution”: An Interview with Jack Z. Bratich — Daniel Lukes
As pundits scramble to define fascism for Trump 2.0, a recent book by media scholar Jack Z. Bratich, investigating the theme of “microfascism,” may come in handy. The term, coined by Gilles Deleuze…
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November 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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"Today, what does it mean to take the internet as the media cultural expression of contemporary fascism? Or certain digital networks and the production of memes?"

Jack Z. Bratich talks to Daniel Lukes

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“It’s not just that the far right is reactionary, that it reacts to something, but it’s a preventive counter-revolution”: An Interview with Jack Z. Bratich — Daniel Lukes
As pundits scramble to define fascism for Trump 2.0, a recent book by media scholar Jack Z. Bratich, investigating the theme of “microfascism,” may come in handy. The term, coined by Gilles Deleuze…
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November 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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and coming up this week ...

— Jack Z. Bratich interviewed by Daniel Lukes

— an extract from Nebojša Lujanović's Cloud the Color of Skin, translated by @enaselimo.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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link to donate to local food banks in nj
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Shutdown: Federal employees & SNAP recipients in our state need food
With the federal government shut down, federal workers in New Jersey don’t know when their next paycheck will arrive. And our neighbors who receive food assistance benefits and other federally funded ...
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November 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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I mentioned this poem the other day. Alejandra Pizarnik wrote this to her friend (and perhaps crush?) Italian poet and translator of Dante, Cristina Campo.

Rings of Ashes

There is, in this waiting
a rumor of breaking lilac
October 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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“[W]e do inhabit, similar to the the years before modernism, a sense that our world has irrevocably changed”: An Interview with @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social — @monalisavitti.bsky.social

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“[W]e do inhabit, similar to the the years before modernism, a sense that our world has irrevocably changed”: An Interview with Morten Høi Jensen — Cristina Politano
Morten Høi Jensen is a Danish-American writer whose recent book, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain (Yale University Press, 2025) presents, through the l…
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October 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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" I don’t know what it is about him, but I sympathize with his neuroses and anxieties. He was an intensely neurotic and a very fearful person, and it comes out a lot in in his fiction."

@mortenhoijensen.bsky.social discusses his new book on Thomas Mann with @monalisavitti.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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my latest interview with the writer @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social on his book about thomas mann and the magic mountain
October 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Coming up this week ...

— poetic non-fiction from @dluntz.bsky.social

— @monalisavitti.bsky.social talks to @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social about his book on Thomas Mann

— fiction from Mikra Namani
October 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!

Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera, with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction sticker on the cover Vajra Chandrasekera, photo by Sanjeewa Weerasinghe. The author sits at a white table, arms resting in front of him, wearing a tan jacket and a white shirt.
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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"Suddenly a veil is lifted: our fantasies and abstractions dissipate when the empty socket of the State’s eye is filled by a human eye ..."

“Engineers of the Soul”: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos — Toti O’Brien

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“Engineers of the Soul”: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos — Toti O’Brien
Recently hailed by the Italian daily Corriere della Sera as Greece’s probable candidate for a Nobel Prize in Literature, Dimitris Lyacos is one of the most highly regarded European a…
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October 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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“Engineers of the Soul”: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos — Toti O’Brien minorliteratures.com/2025/10/21/e...
“Engineers of the Soul”: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos — Toti O’Brien
Recently hailed by the Italian daily Corriere della Sera as Greece’s probable candidate for a Nobel Prize in Literature, Dimitris Lyacos is one of the most highly regarded European a…
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October 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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if you read one thing today, make it this urgent and lyrical interview between toti o’brien and greek novelist dmitris lyacos
October 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Forrest Gander
October 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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and coming up this week ...

— Toti O’Brien interviews Dimitris Lyacos

— experimental work from @gabrielflynn.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Very pleased to join the fellas of the excellent Pynchon podcast Slow Learners to discuss the women of Vineland and its connections to Against the Day, among other things. ⛏️💣 DIG!

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VINELAND EP 4: Keeping it DL (w/Ana Gavrilovska)
Podcast Episode · Slow Learners · 10/16/2025 · 1h 3m
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October 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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“Behold me now just as I am, Colette once said in a beautiful piece about how she was in her early 30s (my age) & alone, living in a one-room apartment on the first floor, a Parisian room near the Bois de Boulogne. Beholding herself in the mirror, just as she was.” (p91) #NYRBWomen25
THE VAGABOND by Colette
October 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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by Gregory Corso
October 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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laszlo krazsnahorkai w/ hari kunzru in the yale review
October 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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by Sylvia Plath, for the season
October 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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really great conversation between @noonanerik.bsky.social and al-essa, a kuwaiti bookseller and novelist
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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coming up this week ...

— Erik Noonan in conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa

— fiction from Matthew Kinlin [@matthewkinlin.bsky.social]
October 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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by Ted Berrigan for National Poetry Day
October 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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last week @ minor lits ...

— @monalisavitti.bsky.social interviews Austyn Wohlers

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— an extract from Joseph Nechvatal's Venus Voluptuous in the Loins of the Last God ( @orbistertiuspress.bsky.social )

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Venus Voluptuous in the Loins of the Last God — Joseph Nechvatal
Nimbus Mimesis Penis and the Velvet Hammer It once was a given that the power of confirmation and denial is vested, not in the ability to connect and become visible, but rather in the ability (and …
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September 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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"I think that one autobiographical impetus was, well, what would it look like to fail and just completely reject these methods, or the idea of productivity that we are enmeshed in?"

— Austyn Wohlers talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social

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“What would it look like to just seek absolute stillness?”: An Interview with Austyn Wohlers—Cristina Politano
Austyn Wohlers is a New York-based writer and musician, whose debut novel, Hothouse Bloom, was recently published by Hub City Press. In the novel, Wohlers details the struggle of the protagonist, A…
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September 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM