Monthly Dispatch #28—ft. @robmclennan.bsky.social @gabrielflynn.bsky.social @matthewkinlin.bsky.social Mikra Namani @eoghancarrick.bsky.social @dluntz.bsky.social @evawyles.bsky.social Bothayna Al-Essa @noonanerik.bsky.social Dimitris Lyacos Toti O’Brien + @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social

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last week @ minor lits ...

— @noonanerik.bsky.social in conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa

minorliteratures.com/2025/10/07/l...

— @desperatelit.bsky.social Prize short-listed fiction from @matthewkinlin.bsky.social

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... I didn't know she was a bookseller herself!

"Yeah, being a bookseller, I’m always confronting inspectors as they try to check my bookstore for illegal books, so it’s obvious that The Book Censor’s Library was inspired by those actual inspectors in my actual bookstore."

"The Book Censor's Library" by Bothayna al-Essa was a great read for me and it's so shockingly timely. I've read it a second time recently and found it even more pertinent for our times.
This interview was interesting because I don't know much about her, for example ...

"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

"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...

"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...

really great conversation between @noonanerik.bsky.social and al-essa, a kuwaiti bookseller and novelist

“[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...

coming up this week ...

— Erik Noonan in conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa

— fiction from Matthew Kinlin [@matthewkinlin.bsky.social]

big old October coming up ...

My interview is up at Ladige Review
davidgaryan.wixsite.com/ladige/post/...

"Fathers and sons part ways across a distance that binds them. If the son is a writer, the father’s world turns into a word."

My review of Xavier Le Clerc’s A MAN WITH NO TITLE, translated by William Rodarmor and published by Saqi Books, for The Brooklyn Rail

brooklynrail.org/2025/06/book...

Your Impossible Voice @yivjournal.bsky.social continues its vital work. Issue 30 includes new translations of Bruno Lloret, Lina Munar Guevara, and Ricardo Piglia and a recovered story by great Filipino postmodernist Wilfrido Nolledo.

I have two new tales too:
www.yourimpossiblevoice.com/two-tales/

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I interviewed Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones
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"This fear does me in now more than anything."

We're fortunate to have another fantastic piece by the great Ricardo Piglia, translated by the enormously talented @noonanerik.bsky.social, in issue 30. Don't miss The Wall! #translation #author