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simonkinch.bsky.social
@simonkinch.bsky.social
“A poor rate version of Ben Lerner”

Two Sketches of Disjointed Happiness [Salt Publishing]

Thoughts of Secondary Persons [Confingo]

Acknowledgements (To The Story You Have Just Finished Reading) [Exacting Clam]
Enrico Cavaletti’s 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵: the finest of beginnings to a novel which disappears in mere paragraphs
January 25, 2026 at 8:08 AM
El mundo al revés; debajo de la ciudad, vuelan las aves

Ronda, Octubre 2025
October 4, 2025 at 10:32 AM
October 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
J. M. G. Le Clézio, The Interrogation
January 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
On seeing a post on writing about tides (this, from Danilo Claremont's 'Submissão ao periódico das inseguranças')
November 27, 2024 at 5:17 PM
I’ll scan the shelves of Oxfam, Abingdon, perhaps one Saturday in four; found my own name staring back at me this weekend
September 17, 2024 at 10:15 AM
Went to the recently-opened and well-hidden Curio bookshop in Oxford today; £12 lighter, 4 very good books heavier
January 20, 2024 at 2:23 PM
WELL... Since you ask me for an anthology of short stories, itself in the form of its own short story, I may just have something that you find... convoluted but nevertheless charming:

apersonalanthology.substack.com/p/a-personal...
January 19, 2024 at 6:34 PM
This week, I'm guest-editing for @jonathangibbs.bsky.social 's wonderful A Personal Anthology – a sojourn through twelve of my favourites, via a (less than believable) stay at L'Hotel Delle Cento Storie.

Available online (and in inboxes) at 14:00 on Friday, at apersonalanthology.substack.com/about
January 17, 2024 at 6:27 PM