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Ben @benlibman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Happy to report that I will be translating Gisèle Sapiro’s « Peut-on dissocier l’œuvre de l’auteur ? » CAN WE SEPARATE THE WORK FROM THE AUTHOR? for @stanfordpress.bsky.social !
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
also this week ... If you're in Paris, don't miss the launch of @benlibman.bsky.social 's THE THIRD SOLITUDE 19h, Monday June 2nd @ The Red Wheelbarrow
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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
"In the realm of the Law we have terms for this, like aiding & abetting. You vote for your own tax $ to go toward the perpetuation of this killing & this immiseration..turn(ing) kids into dust. Ask yourself: do you consent to this?" Great @benlibman.bsky.social i/view @minorliteratures.bsky.social
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
"It’s about the people and the places that made me. I’m the prism through which all of this is observed or narrated, but I think that’s true of any nonfiction book whether we like it or not. " Ben Libman @benlibman.bsky.social talks to Cristina Politano @monalisavitti.bsky.social about his new book.
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
"It is your responsibility to use what you’ve been given for a greater good. And it is your responsibility to rid what you have been given of the evil that attaches to it ..." @benlibman.bsky.social talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/05/29/i...
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“I don’t want to overstate the case, but what’s at stake is life and death”: An Interview with Benjamin Libman — Cristina Politano
Benjamin Libman is a Paris-based Canadian writer who has mined the geographical specifics of his family’s history, from Nazi-occupied Austria to post-war Canada, in order to challenge the cre…
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Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
for those in Paris, there's a launch event for @benlibman.bsky.social 's new book, THE THIRD SOLITUDE, on Monday @ The Red Wheelbarrow
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
“I don’t want to overstate the case, but what’s at stake is life and death”: An Interview with Ben Libman (@benlibman.bsky.social) —Cristina Politano (@monalisavitti.bsky.social) minorliteratures.com/2025/05/29/i...
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“I don’t want to overstate the case, but what’s at stake is life and death”: An Interview with Ben Libman — Cristina Politano
Ben Libman is a Paris-based Canadian writer who has mined the geographical specifics of his family’s history, from Nazi-occupied Austria to post-war Canada, in order to challenge the creation…
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
and coming up this week ... — an extract from ANIMA FATUA by Anna Lidia Vega Serova (tr. @robmunb.bsky.social) — @monalisavitti.bsky.social interviews @benlibman.bsky.social about his new book THE THIRD SOLITUDE
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
featuring Emily Lu, @unpaginated.bsky.social @zebulonhourse.bsky.social @kimchimarx.bsky.social Benjamin Robinson, Anna Lidia Vega Serova (tr. @robmunb.bsky.social) Diane Seuss, @benlibman.bsky.social Jon Cone @carolinehardaker.bsky.social & more ...
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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
On Friday, May 30th...Clayton Childress, Simone Murray, Michelle Smith, @alexbacalja.bsky.social, @benlibman.bsky.social, and me on "The Curricular and the Extra-Curricular"...
Friday, May 30th, 2025

Clayton Childress (UBC). How Shared is Common Culture? A View from the Middle School Library

Simone Murray (Monash), Michelle J. Smith (Monash) and Alex Bacalja (U.Melb), Where Is the Digital in High-school English?

Alexander Manshel (McGill), CliffsNotes, SparkNotes, and Shmoop: A New History of Literary Criticism

Ben Libman (Stanford), Grove Press and the Extramural Teach-In
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
keep your eye on minor lits for an interview with @benlibman.bsky.social ....
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Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
congrats to @benlibman.bsky.social on the publication of The Third Solitude
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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
MONTREAL! I hope you'll join me for the launch of @benlibman.bsky.social's outstanding new book! DE STIIL BOOKSELLERS | Friday, May 16 at 6:00 pm!
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Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
venez nombreux @benlibman.bsky.social
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Ben @benlibman.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
MONTREAL — the brilliant Alyssa and I will be discussing my book, The Third Solitude, on May 16. Wine and cheese are also rumoured….
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Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
been looking forward to this @benlibman.bsky.social
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Ben @benlibman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I’ve just learned that my splendid agent is leaving the biz. If you’re an agent on here, are familiar with or curious about my work, and would like to chat about representation, my DMs are open. I have a book forthcoming in May and lots more on the stove. benlibman.info
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The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
In inboxes tomorrow morning: a new installment of Further Materials, our newsletter series that takes a look behind the scenes of pieces in the magazine. Sign up here to read @benlibman.bsky.social on Jon Fosse: eepurl.com/dLh9Y6
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
Red River Valley — Ben Libman (@benlibman.bsky.social ) minorliteratures.com/2023/09/07/r...
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Red River Valley — Ben Libman
I'm old in this house the one we shared, old and baffled, liver searing on the stove, and out on the plain the smoking fog in cowlick curls can't soothe me anymore, didn't say where he was going or wh...
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
ICYMI — last week at Minor Lits CADAVRE EXQUI[S] minorliteratures.com/2023/09/05/c... Better Shopping Through Living — Frank Garrett minorliteratures.com/2023/09/06/b... Red River Valley — @benlibman.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2023/09/07/r...
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CADAVRE EXQUI[S]
Interminably tangled, the escalators wove themselves into a vast network, a great steel octopode either in conflict with or consoling itself. Heart rising to throat, sinking fast. In ascent and descen...
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Ben @benlibman.bsky.social · 05/07/2023
using this opportunity to share three recent(ish) pieces...
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Ben @benlibman.bsky.social · 03/07/2023
We have the opportunity to redo the MD v Middlemarch poll
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Ryan Ruby @ryanruby.bsky.social · 03/07/2023
no one on this platform has observed that moby-dick, or the whale is the great american novel.
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