Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 8h“He selects for himself new languages to be silent in.” —Elias Canetti 091
Reposted by Christina Tudor-Sideriminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 8hMonthly Dispatch #38 out NOW! feat. @katewagner.wehwalt.net @lucykulwiec.bsky.social @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social Nate Lippens, Dragan Aleksić (tr. David Vichnar) Susan Finlay, Adrian Duncan, Denise Rose Hansen & more ... minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-di... 065
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 15hCanetti in the early hours. “A writer who doesn’t have a wound that’s always open is no writer for me,” he writes in Notes from Hampstead. 1172
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Nothing forms you as the nonevent forms you. A nonnight in a noncity in a nonroom, and the nongesture goes on happening forever. No moment is as eternal as the unfulfilled moment. 1203
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“his manuscripts and diaries are here with me” Milena to Max Brod; tr. Philip Boehm 0100
Reposted by Christina Tudor-Sideriwordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026September's End 2026 #analogcollage #collage 15212
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“A new beginning can only mean that we have, in all innocence, forgotten the beginning. In any case, beginning means forgetting,” writes Jabés. “We think we begin, whereas we always start over, with both what is manifest and what withdraws into its night.” (tr. Rosmarie Waldrop) 070
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026How dizzying the twists and turns of endless beginnings— 091
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Rilkean bibliomancy in the afternoon 0122
Reposted by Christina Tudor-SideriS.D. Stewart @sd-stewart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Up at Erratum Press today: my response to Ann Quin's novel Berg. 064
Reposted by Christina Tudor-SideriErratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026ERRATUM is pleased to announce it has joined ScholarLed, a consortium of open access book publishers organised around a commitment to opening up research to diverse readerships and resisting the marketization of academic knowledge production. scholarled.org @scholarled.bsky.social 076
Reposted by Christina Tudor-SideriErratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026SCHOPENHAUER by Nathan Knapp *out today* order here >> www.erratumpress.com/schopenhauer 062
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In September and at night, Béla Tarr’s Almanac of Fall. “What can you do but dream?” 091
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Marguerite Duras on nighttime reading: “The darkness around you adds greatly to the absolute passion that develops between you and the book.” 15517
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“One would have said that everything was destroyed, but that everything was beginning again as well. Time, coming forth from its lakes, rolled her in an immense past…” (Thomas the Obscure) 091
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“You will never know what you have written, even if you have written only to find this out.” —Blanchot 0142
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“I weep with fear because life is short, the days pass so quickly and nothing lasts forever.” 170
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026As the kids say, RIP Maurice Blanchot, you would have loved this absolute unworking of the text: opening your inbox just to be greeted by endless variations of your own bio and book descriptions lazily remixed into long, hollow paragraphs under the guise of book club invitations. 240
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026On Maurice Blanchot’s birthday, I write about writing as a paradoxical act. 150
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“through the graves the wind is blowing” 180
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026On September nights, I think of Eugène Ionesco. “We are at the mercy of the wind.” 070
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“I’d so like to tell him: My love, look at all these lives I’ve lost for you, and now I have none left, let me dream of a comeback. But as soon as I open my mouth, his name flies out, oblivion snatches and gulps it down. All the names who might love me are captured—and mine too.” 160
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026At night, in conversations and in the manuscript, I write again about the ocean of forgetting, then I remember Maria Stepanova. “The past rewilds itself, oblivion springs up out of it like a forest.” 082
Reposted by Christina Tudor-Sideriminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 20/09/2026ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ... The Knife — @katewagner.wehwalt.net minorliteratures.com/2026/09/15/t... The Kept Hour: A Minor Study — @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/09/17/t...minorliteratures.comThe Kept Hour: A Minor Study — Christina Tudor-SideriI. To hold the relic is to hold a small, silver cylinder of contained space. Suspended from a coiled rope chain, the object rests against the skin, rising and falling with my breath. A pendant that… 0812
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“Whether it is a question of the approach of another person or even of the approach of the absolute otherness of death, it is the body that opens itself and extends itself to the outside,” writes Jean-Luc Nancy. “This is its pure act.” 091
Reposted by Christina Tudor-SideriJoseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"To choose a word is to trace the invisible pattern of rain falling over a dark sea; to capture a single drop before it is swallowed by the tide." Today, a luminous essay by @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social The Kept Hour: A Minor Study — Christina Tudor-Sideri minorliteratures.com/2026/09/17/t...minorliteratures.comThe Kept Hour: A Minor Study — Christina Tudor-SideriI. To hold the relic is to hold a small, silver cylinder of contained space. Suspended from a coiled rope chain, the object rests against the skin, rising and falling with my breath. A pendant that… 044
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“Lost at sea, as they are… No body in the grave. The sea keeps them. They’re lost… because of the storm. It was ever thus.” Les feux de la mer (Jean Epstein, 1948) 072
Reposted by Christina Tudor-Sideriminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"The relic ceases to be an inert accessory; it becomes an extension of the body itself, a surrogate skin. The kept object acts as both a lock and a raw nerve ..." — @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/09/17/t...minorliteratures.comThe Kept Hour: A Minor Study — Christina Tudor-SideriI. To hold the relic is to hold a small, silver cylinder of contained space. Suspended from a coiled rope chain, the object rests against the skin, rising and falling with my breath. A pendant that… 065
Reposted by Christina Tudor-SideriErratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"There is an hour, late in the evening, as the object is returned to the nightstand, when its sudden absence against the hollow of the neck feels heavier than its physical mass." minorliteratures.com/2026/09/17/t... @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social excerpts from a forthcoming title at ERRATUMminorliteratures.comThe Kept Hour: A Minor Study — Christina Tudor-SideriI. To hold the relic is to hold a small, silver cylinder of contained space. Suspended from a coiled rope chain, the object rests against the skin, rising and falling with my breath. A pendant that… 072
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026On what the word holds; on what holds the word. The Kept Hour, a short collection of fragments toward my forthcoming book, Reliquary, is now out with @minorliteratures.bsky.social My gratitude to @roughghosts.bsky.social and @erratumpress.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/09/17/t...minorliteratures.comThe Kept Hour: A Minor Study — Christina Tudor-SideriI. To hold the relic is to hold a small, silver cylinder of contained space. Suspended from a coiled rope chain, the object rests against the skin, rising and falling with my breath. A pendant that… 1106
Reposted by Christina Tudor-SideriMinx Marple @minxmarple.bsky.social · 17/09/2026« The transition from an abstract feeling to a physical object begins with the hand writing the word » New @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social at @minorliteratures.bsky.social and a new book to look forward to is a GIFT on a rainy September [any] morning. 283
Reposted by Christina Tudor-SideriJoseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"How does one compress a season of grief, a sudden surge of desire, a lingering state of anxiety, or the span of the impossible into a single sequence of letters?" @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social 084
Reposted by Christina Tudor-Sideriminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 17/09/2026today @ minor lits ... The Kept Hour: A Minor Study — @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/09/17/t...minorliteratures.comThe Kept Hour: A Minor Study — Christina Tudor-SideriI. To hold the relic is to hold a small, silver cylinder of contained space. Suspended from a coiled rope chain, the object rests against the skin, rising and falling with my breath. A pendant that… 066
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“The sky’s blue was deepening, but there was no darkness.” —Annie Dillard 0144
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Why can’t we embrace time without trembling?,” asks Lucian Blaga… 061
Reposted by Christina Tudor-Sideriminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 13/09/2026and coming up this week ... — new writing from @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social — fiction by @katewagner.wehwalt.net 056
Reposted by Christina Tudor-Sideriminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 13/09/2026ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ... Bastards — Nate Lippens minorliteratures.com/2026/09/08/b... “[M]y novels…might sit slightly on the outside of things”: An Interview with Adrian Duncan — Cristina Politano minorliteratures.com/2026/09/10/m...minorliteratures.comBastards — Nate LippensI’ve been using bibliomancy to start my days. I pull a book at random and open it. Patricia Highsmith’s diary from Dec. 31, 1947: “My New Year’s Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, gre… 114
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Yes, Jean-Luc Nancy, perhaps we are, ourselves, the threshold. 161
Reposted by Christina Tudor-Sideriminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 10/09/2026today @ minor lits ... “[M]y novels…might sit slightly on the outside of things”: An Interview with Adrian Duncan — Cristina Politano minorliteratures.com/2026/09/10/m...minorliteratures.com“[M]y novels…might sit slightly on the outside of things”: An Interview with Adrian Duncan — Cristina PolitanoAdrian Duncan is a Berlin-based writer whose novels are often influenced by his upbringing in Ireland, as well as his formal education and decade of experience as an engineer. His most recent novel… 046
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“Always this image of hand on forehead...” —Jabès 040
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Today’s (found) question: Can Rilke assist us in turning away from the abyss? 1130
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 08/09/2026All these selves just to make a body—I think of how, after the death of Anne, Blanchot writes, “No Anne was lacking in the corpse of Anne. All the Annes had been necessary to bring her back to nothing.” Perhaps this is why we gather them, our selves, to carry us back to nothing. 0101
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Feelings are tombs for the dead, writes Blanchot. 0125
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 06/09/2026A slow return to a reality where the sea is absent; to manuscripts, essays, and appointments—to childhood ruins and beloved relics. Later in September, a return to @minorliteratures.bsky.social with an essay/excerpt from Reliquary. 190
Reposted by Christina Tudor-Sideriminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 01/09/2026and coming up in September ... fiction, essays, interviews & more, feat. @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social @lucykulwiec.bsky.social Susan Finlay Denise Rose Hansen +++ 053
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Dear Herr Doktor:
I'm returning the book to you with thanks, please forgive me for not looking you up. I hardly think I could talk about Franz right now, and I'm sure you won't want to speak with me about him at this time either. With your permission, I'll let you know before I come to Prague in September. Please remember me kindly and please convey my best wishes to your wife, whom I once probably wronged without intending to. When you have the opportunity, please make sure my letters which belonged to Franz are burned; I trust you will do so, although of course this is nothing important. His manuscripts and diaries (not at all intended for me, since they were written before he knew me, about fifteen large notebooks) are here with me and, should you need them, are at your disposal. This is as he wished; he asked me not to show them to anyone but you and then only after he died. Perhaps you already know them in part.
Most cordial greetings and I remain yours in friendship
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