I'm either lacerated or ill at ease and occasionally subject to gusts of life. (Barthes) Reader, writer, lonely wanderer. Essays Editor @MinorLits

Calgary, Canada
Joined June 2011
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ICYMI — last week @MinorLits ... - non-fiction from Kent Kosak - an extract from JÉRÔME by Jean-Pierre Martinet (tr. Jacob Siefring) links below 👇
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Mr. popular this morning
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Gerard Exupery. ‘Women Hold Up Half the Sky.’ ‘I’ve always wanted to take pictures from the moment my dad helped steady his Rolleiflex in my shakey little hands while I took my first picture. His death greatly influenced why and what I see, and how I photograph it’.
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extract (tr. Jacob Siefring) up now @MinorLits ... link below
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Palestinian artist Imad Abu Shtayyah
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Correction: 53 per cent of those who voted said yes to a series of questions carefully drafted to elicit a yes, after a months-long government-funded hysteria campaign.
Albertans want more control over immigration and limits on newcomers' access to social services nationalpost.com/news/canada…
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"Paul wrote notes. He was constantly scribbling on little scraps of paper, notes he fiercely guarded, refusing to show them or explain them to anyone. At least, to any of us ..." One Last Note for Paul Nervy—Kent Kosak @MinorLits minorliteratures.com/2026/10…
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"After John Cage has done four and a half minutes of silence, the task of the avant-garde is not to then do five minutes of silence. That’s kitsch." at The Auflauf today, an interview with Tom McCarthy link below
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Please read the following statement for our fallen at the 3rd Canadian Division Support Base Detachment Wainwright in Alberta, posted on behalf of the Anishinabek Nation Veterans Committee here:
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ICYMI — last week @MinorLits ... - @DesperateLit Prize shortlisted fiction from Imogen Clarke - an interview with The Auflauf links below 👇
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Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. Step by Step follows daughters and mothers at a small dancing school in a coastal town in northeastern England during the 1980s.
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Ditto Spanish. One night in Berlin, I had to choose which of five Spanish-language book launches to attend.
"Berlin is one of the largest, if not the largest English-speaking literary community in a non-dominant English-speaking city in Europe. It has an extraordinarily vibrant literary culture."
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part 1 w/ Gabriel Flynn, Martin Lechner, May-Lan Tan & Donna Stonecipher
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Across from Luskentyre on Harris, in the Outer Hebrides. Pink clouds over the hills, turquoise water and miles of white sand. It's one of my favourite places to photograph anywhere. Would you believe this is the UK?
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This story is bigger than a book simply being cancelled. Penguin Random House pulled Alana Hadid and Jenan Matari’s book about the Palestinian experience after clashing with them over how to tell Palestine’s story. Apparently, even a children’s book about Palestine needs a disclaimer making sure everyone knows October 7 was illegal, while the Nakba, occupation and decades of dispossession are up for editorial debate. Alana and Jenin eventually walked away rather than publish a version they couldn’t stand behind. Imagine having to fight a publisher just to tell your own people’s story. Thankfully, Palestinian-owned Interlink Books will publish it in 2027.
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François-Marie Banier. Taking photographs and writing are interdependent practices; his images invoke stories, which he then spontaneously writes. Rendering images as diaries or poems is a way of prolonging and intensifying the all-too-brief moment of the photograph itself.
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That @Ed_Miliband speech praised for its bravery was too timid to end a ban on freedom of speech that jails grandmothers with "I oppose genocide" signs and keeps mainstream novels out of circulation. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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