Dan Visel
@withhiddennoise.net
I make books at Circumference Books, and I work at the Internet Archive.
An ancient (!) interview with Helen DeWitt that I did after YOUR NAME HERE was published online: futureofthebook.org/blog/2008/12...
an interview with helen dewitt | if:book
futureofthebook.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
An ancient (!) interview with Helen DeWitt that I did after YOUR NAME HERE was published online: futureofthebook.org/blog/2008/12...
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
Two fantastic archives from MART in Rovereto: first, an enormous collection of documents of twentieth-century Italian art: archive.org/details/mart... ; and second, a collection of radical zines, mostly Italian: archive.org/details/radi...
September 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Two fantastic archives from MART in Rovereto: first, an enormous collection of documents of twentieth-century Italian art: archive.org/details/mart... ; and second, a collection of radical zines, mostly Italian: archive.org/details/radi...
She’s Very Much at Home in the Space Between Life and the Afterlife
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Read a @circumferencebooks.com poetry collection (translated by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra) this #NationalTranslationMonth!
In TREASURER OF PIGGY BANKS, Vinod Kumar Shukla “illuminates what is hardest to comprehend with aphoristic yet surreal clarity.” circumferencebooks.com/book/treasur...
In TREASURER OF PIGGY BANKS, Vinod Kumar Shukla “illuminates what is hardest to comprehend with aphoristic yet surreal clarity.” circumferencebooks.com/book/treasur...
Circumference Books: Treasurer of Piggy Banks
Infiltrator or inhabitant? In Treasurer of Piggy Banks, Indian poet Vinod Kumar Shukla sees the world through both lenses at once. All details are local yet canonical, and when inside his lyric mind,…
circumferencebooks.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Read a @circumferencebooks.com poetry collection (translated by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra) this #NationalTranslationMonth!
In TREASURER OF PIGGY BANKS, Vinod Kumar Shukla “illuminates what is hardest to comprehend with aphoristic yet surreal clarity.” circumferencebooks.com/book/treasur...
In TREASURER OF PIGGY BANKS, Vinod Kumar Shukla “illuminates what is hardest to comprehend with aphoristic yet surreal clarity.” circumferencebooks.com/book/treasur...
Found all three of my editions of Chris Marker’s IMMEMORY during unpacking:
August 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Found all three of my editions of Chris Marker’s IMMEMORY during unpacking:
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Onehundredandeightythousandfourhundredandone men live in Iceland
and she’s in love with all of them
∾ Two poems by Brynja Hjálmsdóttir, translated from Icelandic by Rachel Britton ∾
circumferencemag.com/she-blinks-q...
and she’s in love with all of them
∾ Two poems by Brynja Hjálmsdóttir, translated from Icelandic by Rachel Britton ∾
circumferencemag.com/she-blinks-q...
she blinks quick quick quickly
Two poems by Brynja Hjálmsdóttir, translated from Icelandic by Rachel Britton.
circumferencemag.com
August 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Onehundredandeightythousandfourhundredandone men live in Iceland
and she’s in love with all of them
∾ Two poems by Brynja Hjálmsdóttir, translated from Icelandic by Rachel Britton ∾
circumferencemag.com/she-blinks-q...
and she’s in love with all of them
∾ Two poems by Brynja Hjálmsdóttir, translated from Icelandic by Rachel Britton ∾
circumferencemag.com/she-blinks-q...
Every copy finds its original eventually.
July 23, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Every copy finds its original eventually.
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The winner of the 2025 #FirecrackerAward in Magazines/General Excellence is @circumferencemag.bsky.social! circumferencemag.com
June 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The winner of the 2025 #FirecrackerAward in Magazines/General Excellence is @circumferencemag.bsky.social! circumferencemag.com
Oh, New York people, I'll be around next week! And this weekend. Let me know if you want to meet up.
June 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Oh, New York people, I'll be around next week! And this weekend. Let me know if you want to meet up.
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We’re governed by morons
Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence fed the JFK files into an AI program, asking it to see if there was anything that should remain classified.
https://trib.al/AqWNKuR
https://trib.al/AqWNKuR
Gabbard Admits to Asking AI What to Classify in JFK Files
Gabbard revealed that she fed tens of thousands of documents about the JFK assassination into an AI program for review.
trib.al
June 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
We’re governed by morons
“In his 1865 book Die Urwelt der Schweiz, Oswald Heer notes that Amanz Gressly, who had been admitted to an asylum in the final years of his life, had become tormented by hallucinations that he had transformed into the Gresslyosaurus, his namesake dinosaur” ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gressly... )
June 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
“In his 1865 book Die Urwelt der Schweiz, Oswald Heer notes that Amanz Gressly, who had been admitted to an asylum in the final years of his life, had become tormented by hallucinations that he had transformed into the Gresslyosaurus, his namesake dinosaur” ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gressly... )
Suddenly a lot of Italians have to figure out how to say “Chicago” with a straight face.
May 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Suddenly a lot of Italians have to figure out how to say “Chicago” with a straight face.
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You all might not be aware that I'm still involved in maintaining the Sundown Towns database on the History & Social Justice website. Today we finally completed uploading most of the 2020 census data to the site. If you haven't seen the map, you really should: justice.tougaloo.edu/map/ #sundowntowns
Sundown Town Map | History and Social Justice, inspired by James W. Loewen
A database contributed by people across the nation underlies these maps and the tables you can generate.
justice.tougaloo.edu
April 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
You all might not be aware that I'm still involved in maintaining the Sundown Towns database on the History & Social Justice website. Today we finally completed uploading most of the 2020 census data to the site. If you haven't seen the map, you really should: justice.tougaloo.edu/map/ #sundowntowns
Franco Piavoli's THE BLUE PLANET, which maybe everyone needs right now, is on Le Cinema Club: www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...
April 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Franco Piavoli's THE BLUE PLANET, which maybe everyone needs right now, is on Le Cinema Club: www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...
Dino Buzzati and knitting in translation: www.eudaemonist.com/4iv2025/
an eudæmonist : the raveled poncho of care
Dino Buzzati’s short story ‘A Boring Letter’ – included in the recently translated collection The Bewitched Bourgeois – contains part of a knitting pattern for a three-color ‘Peruvian poncho’. The sto...
www.eudaemonist.com
April 5, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Dino Buzzati and knitting in translation: www.eudaemonist.com/4iv2025/
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Seems like a good time to share my *absolute favorite audio recording of all time* -- Lyndon Johnson on a natsec phone call with Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, when the lines get crossed and some normie couple in Denver enters the chat:
drive.google.com/file/d/1oDi8...
drive.google.com/file/d/1oDi8...
Lyndon Johnson.mp3
drive.google.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Seems like a good time to share my *absolute favorite audio recording of all time* -- Lyndon Johnson on a natsec phone call with Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, when the lines get crossed and some normie couple in Denver enters the chat:
drive.google.com/file/d/1oDi8...
drive.google.com/file/d/1oDi8...
Vinay Kumar Shukla, whose TREASURER OF PIGGY BANKS we published last year ( circumferencebooks.com/book/treasur... ) in Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's translation, has won the Jnanpith Award: www.thehindu.com/books/books-... – maybe the equivalent of a National Book Award for India? Someone help me here.
Award gives a sense a responsibility: Jnanpith winner Vinod Kumar Shukla
Vinod Kumar Shukla, a renowned Hindi writer, wins the prestigious 59th Jnanpith Award, making history for Chhattisgarh.
www.thehindu.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Vinay Kumar Shukla, whose TREASURER OF PIGGY BANKS we published last year ( circumferencebooks.com/book/treasur... ) in Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's translation, has won the Jnanpith Award: www.thehindu.com/books/books-... – maybe the equivalent of a National Book Award for India? Someone help me here.
If you sign up for Woodland Pattern's Small-Press Bundle this month, you'll get Circumference's edition of Vinod Kumar Shukla's TREASURER OF PIGGY BANKS! And also Renee Gladman! And also Jimin Seo! woodlandpatternbookcenter.com/products/sma...
Small-Press Bundle: Three New Titles Every Month
Join Woodland Pattern's subscription program and help us make large, sustaining purchases from poetry publishers! Each month, you will receive THREE small-press poetry titles, curated by our staff, pa...
woodlandpatternbookcenter.com
March 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
If you sign up for Woodland Pattern's Small-Press Bundle this month, you'll get Circumference's edition of Vinod Kumar Shukla's TREASURER OF PIGGY BANKS! And also Renee Gladman! And also Jimin Seo! woodlandpatternbookcenter.com/products/sma...
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A Docu-Auto-Fiction
called a
WEIRD SHUFFLE
based on a walk yesterday around the park i took with
Cal A. Mari
AKA
in8 iD
eugenelim.com/2025/03/13/a...
called a
WEIRD SHUFFLE
based on a walk yesterday around the park i took with
Cal A. Mari
AKA
in8 iD
eugenelim.com/2025/03/13/a...
March 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
A Docu-Auto-Fiction
called a
WEIRD SHUFFLE
based on a walk yesterday around the park i took with
Cal A. Mari
AKA
in8 iD
eugenelim.com/2025/03/13/a...
called a
WEIRD SHUFFLE
based on a walk yesterday around the park i took with
Cal A. Mari
AKA
in8 iD
eugenelim.com/2025/03/13/a...
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Diogenes with sound advice for dealing with billionaires.
From Herakleitos and Diogenes, translated by Guy Davenport
From Herakleitos and Diogenes, translated by Guy Davenport
February 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Diogenes with sound advice for dealing with billionaires.
From Herakleitos and Diogenes, translated by Guy Davenport
From Herakleitos and Diogenes, translated by Guy Davenport
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Since 2004, Internet Archive has collaborated with a group of libraries and research organizations on the End of Term Web Archive. 💾 Learn more about the effort: eotarchive.org
End of Term Web Archive
The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative initiative that collects, preserves, and makes accessible United States Government websites at the end of presidential administrations.
eotarchive.org
February 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Since 2004, Internet Archive has collaborated with a group of libraries and research organizations on the End of Term Web Archive. 💾 Learn more about the effort: eotarchive.org
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We're still reading Paul J. Preciado's forthcoming book DYSPHORIA MUNDI, and convinced he is on to something when he describes being trans as emblematic of a world on the brink & in need of a radical transition - which terrifies the profiteers of this dying world and caretakers of its dying systems.
January 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We're still reading Paul J. Preciado's forthcoming book DYSPHORIA MUNDI, and convinced he is on to something when he describes being trans as emblematic of a world on the brink & in need of a radical transition - which terrifies the profiteers of this dying world and caretakers of its dying systems.
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International #poetry on a Saturday, courtesy of @wwborders.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.com/x/1142898503...
January 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
International #poetry on a Saturday, courtesy of @wwborders.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.com/x/1142898503...
Happy to report that Circumference Books has been given a grant through CLMP's Small Press Future Fund! A handful of really interesting books of poetry in translation will be making their way to you more quickly because of this. Thanks CLMP!
We’re thrilled to announce the 35 grant recipients of the Small Press Future Fund! These publishers, formerly distributed by SPD, will receive grants for projects that will help strengthen operations as they move forward.
Thanks to the Mellon Foundation for its support! www.clmp.org/press-center...
Thanks to the Mellon Foundation for its support! www.clmp.org/press-center...
CLMP Awards Small Press Future Fund Grants to 35 Publishers Formerly Distributed by SPD - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
www.clmp.org
January 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Happy to report that Circumference Books has been given a grant through CLMP's Small Press Future Fund! A handful of really interesting books of poetry in translation will be making their way to you more quickly because of this. Thanks CLMP!