Reposted by monalisa vittiJoseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 14/04/2026"Substance abuse can bond people. But it’s also anhedonia. There’s no glamour. " 033
Reposted by monalisa vittiSusanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I interviewed the brilliant @stuhennigan.bsky.social about his debut #keshed @ortacpress.bsky.social. We chatted about his process, the complexities of writing class & addiction, blistering sentences, T.Harrison, Dylan Thomas, Pat Barker, punk poets & more. All thanks @minorliteratures.bsky.social. 14518
Reposted by monalisa vittiminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 14/04/2026“The last thing the world needs is another middle-aged white man writing about masculinity, politics and whatever”: An Interview with @stuhennigan.bsky.social — @susannacrossman.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/04/14/t...minorliteratures.com“The last thing the world needs is another middle-aged white man writing about masculinity, politics and whatever”: An Interview with Stu Hennigan — Susanna CrossmanStu Hennigan’s debut novel Keshed is a dark, complex, and visceral exploration of class, belonging, addiction and fatherhood. And yet, in the words of Hennigan himself, Keshed is at its heart ̶… 01311
Reposted by monalisa vittiSusanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Very much looking forward to sharing this interview with the brilliant @stuhennigan.bsky.social about his excellent debut #keshed. Words on his multi-layered process, vernacular, writing class & addiction, poet Dylan Thomas, rhythm, language & more. Out tomorrow in @minorliteratures.bsky.social ! 042
Reposted by monalisa vittiRachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 11/04/2026🖼️ Barbara Winrow 21087116
Reposted by monalisa vittiEsotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Calling all Long Goodbye freaks: Hollywood Heritage is working with the Hollywood Heights Association to offer a very early Sunday morning tour of High Tower--and yes, you'll get a ride in Philip Marlowe's elevator. BYOC (bring your own cat food). www.hollywoodheritage.org/event-detail... 02211
Reposted by monalisa vittiChiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social · 05/04/2026For the weekend crowd -- I have an interview out in minor lits about CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL, come learn the lore behind the title and the finer points of what makes a millennial 031
Reposted by monalisa vittiwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Liz Huppert. Contemporary stained glass artist #WomensArt #Spring 157585
Reposted by monalisa vittiAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Happy Easter! Here’s a lovely Romano-British brooch in the form of a cheerful little hare! 😍 Copper alloy decorated with enamel, 2nd-3rd century AD. 📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology 14744154
Reposted by monalisa vittiChiara Di Lello @chiaradilello.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Loved talking to @monalisavitti.bsky.social for @minorliteratures.bsky.social about all things childfree, including pronatalism, what makes a millennial, and Disney World. I hope you'll give it a read! minorliteratures.com/2026/03/31/c...minorliteratures.com“Choosing not to have children doesn’t mean that we don’t have skin in the game”: An Interview with Chiara Di Lello — Cristina PolitanoChiara Di Lello is a writer whose recent chapbook, Childless Millennial, sketches the contours of a figure that has, over the course of the last few years, emerged at the center of a supercharged p… 033
monalisa vitti @monalisavitti.bsky.social · 31/03/2026new interview up with @chiaradilello.bsky.social on her new chapbook Childless Millennial. check it out: 012
Reposted by monalisa vittiminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 31/03/2026“Choosing not to have children doesn’t mean that we don’t have skin in the game”: An Interview with @chiaradilello.bsky.social — @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/03/31/c...minorliteratures.com“Choosing not to have children doesn’t mean that we don’t have skin in the game”: An Interview with Chiara Di Lello — Cristina PolitanoChiara Di Lello is a writer whose recent chapbook, Childless Millennial, sketches the contours of a figure that has, over the course of the last few years, emerged at the center of a supercharged p… 023
Reposted by monalisa vittiThe French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 25/03/2026Today is Sextidi the 6th of Germinal in the year 234. Germinal is the month of sprouting. Today we celebrate chard. #JacobinDay More information on chard 114049
Reposted by monalisa vittiLinda @lindabythesea.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Girl and the River at Six O’Clock (2025) by Hanieh Ghashghaei. Acrylic on paper. 0143
Reposted by monalisa vittiPresent & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Our annual, seasonal viewing of Duck With Spring Onions. Oil on canvas. www.vickisawyer.com/shop/fine-ar... As glorious and medicinal as the sun. 7662212
Reposted by monalisa vittiSerena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Been feeling a bit overwhelmed lately, so it feels like a good time to share my painting "Steady". 10268791605
Reposted by monalisa vittiAndromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Artist: Claudia Gaugier (Polish) 021
Reposted by monalisa vittiJoseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 17/03/2026“The white space on the page represents the silences, omissions, the unspeakable and the unknowable”: An Interview with Erin Vincent — Cristina Politano minorliteratures.com/2026/03/17/t...minorliteratures.com“The white space on the page represents the silences, omissions, the unspeakable and the unknowable”: An Interview with Erin Vincent — Cristina PolitanoErin Vincent’s Fourteen Ways of Looking is a genre-defying text, one that disrupts readers’ notions of what memoir, fiction, and autobiography might resemble, all while it challenges th… 021
Reposted by monalisa vittiminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 17/03/2026"I set myself a constraint—every fragment had to have the number fourteen in it. Now, how could I do that without driving the reader crazy? It became like a game ..." — @erinvincent.bsky.social talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/03/17/t...minorliteratures.com“The white space on the page represents the silences, omissions, the unspeakable and the unknowable”: An Interview with Erin Vincent — Cristina PolitanoErin Vincent’s Fourteen Ways of Looking is a genre-defying text, one that disrupts readers’ notions of what memoir, fiction, and autobiography might resemble, all while it challenges th… 043
monalisa vitti @monalisavitti.bsky.social · 17/03/2026new interview with @erinvincent.bsky.social !! check it out ! 042
Reposted by monalisa vittiminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 01/03/2026our own @monalisavitti.bsky.social at AWP w/ @thedodgemag.bsky.social 065
monalisa vitti @monalisavitti.bsky.social · 24/02/2026check out this new interview with David Leo Rice ! 063
Reposted by monalisa vittiGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes 951341143
Reposted by monalisa vittiMinx Marple @minxmarple.bsky.social · 10/02/2026« At its best it was around 20 years of people making works that altered the way art was made, who had access to make it, and the way it circulated and was received; works that changed the ways we see the world » THIS 👆 Insightful interview with @badaude.bsky.social by @monalisavitti.bsky.social 😍 1135
monalisa vitti @monalisavitti.bsky.social · 10/02/2026check out my interview with @badaude.bsky.social on her recent book Amateurs! 075
Reposted by monalisa vittiminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 10/02/2026“Most people are still scrolling because there’s nowhere else to go”: An Interview with @badaude.bsky.social — @monalisavitti.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/10/m...minorliteratures.com“Most people are still scrolling because there’s nowhere else to go”: An Interview with Joanna Walsh — Cristina PolitanoJoanna Walsh’s Amateurs!: How We Built the Internet and Why It Matters was recently published by Verso Books. In it, Walsh charts the ascendancy of a new kind of digital creative, one who mud… 077
Reposted by monalisa vittiminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 13/01/2026"Stemming etymologically from the same roots, these languages have branched out and the distance from their roots, the connections, may have been severed—or, this poem asks, perhaps there is still some collective soil?" Jennifer K. Dick minorliteratures.com/2026/01/13/m...minorliteratures.com“[M]y books share my natural openness to loose connectivity, grammatical fluidity, and promotion of connections related to word sounds over specific meaning:” An Interview with Jennifer K. Dick — Nina...The phenomenon of Jennifer K. Dick’s bilingualism all started for me at Ivy Writers Paris, a cycle of bilingual readings that she has organized for nearly twenty years. It was there in the early 20… 054
Reposted by monalisa vittiminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 13/01/2026"[If] we do not borrow and try on otherness [...] it will become increasingly difficult for us to accept and realize the myriad of elements that really understanding others requires ..." An Interview with Jennifer K. Dick — Nina Zivancevic minorliteratures.com/2026/01/13/m...minorliteratures.com“[M]y books share my natural openness to loose connectivity, grammatical fluidity, and promotion of connections related to word sounds over specific meaning:” An Interview with Jennifer K. Dick — Nina...The phenomenon of Jennifer K. Dick’s bilingualism all started for me at Ivy Writers Paris, a cycle of bilingual readings that she has organized for nearly twenty years. It was there in the early 20… 034
Reposted by monalisa vittiminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 07/01/2026"Nella mia immaginazione la nuda parola è in grado di spaccare in due la vita e portarla a una metamorfosi ..." Un’intervista con Antonio Moresco minorliteratures.com/2026/01/07/n...minorliteratures.com“Non sono un uomo e uno scrittore pacificato”: Un’intervista con Antonio Moresco — Tobias RyanDopo oltre un decennio trascorso a scrivere nell’anonimato, Antonio Moresco ha pubblicato il suo primo libro nel 1993 all’età di 45 anni, seguito, nel decennio successivo, da Giochi dell’eternità, … 024
Reposted by monalisa vittiminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 07/01/2026"In my imagination, the naked word is capable of splitting life in two and bringing about a metamorphosis ..." An Interview with Antonio Moresco minorliteratures.com/2026/01/07/i...minorliteratures.com“I am not a peaceful man or a peaceful writer”: An Interview with Antonio Moresco — Tobias RyanAfter fifteen years of writing in obscurity, Antonio Moresco published his first book in 1993 at the age of 45, followed over the next decade with Giochi dell’eternità, the epic trilogy that … 088
Reposted by monalisa vittiNatee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026For Epiphany, this glorious 1966 illustration of the Three Kings by the great Eyvind Earle (1916 - 2000), best remembered for his enormous contribution to Disney Animation's visual style during the 1950s, particularly Sleeping Beauty (1959). 6801235
Reposted by monalisa vittiΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Experiments on cats (2013) by Russian artist, Alexandre Mityaev Oil on canvas #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt #HappyNewYear 110319
Reposted by monalisa vittiCaroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Sculpture by Mio Hashimoto 01237
Reposted by monalisa vitti✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 01/01/2026It’s that time again. 7567147
Reposted by monalisa vittipoemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 01/01/2026A so long old year melancholy poem by Italian Salvatore Quasimodo The rain is already with us Again a year is burned, without lament, without a cry upraised to win us - suddenly - a day. 093
Reposted by monalisa vittiDaniel @escargotpro.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Zohran should create little schools everyone has to go to that teach you to still talk with a 1987 nyc dirtbag accent the way the Irish do with Gaelic 1046461
Reposted by monalisa vittiminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 02/12/2025"I think translating work is difficult but rewarding. It comes with incredible responsibility too. My method is an amalgamation of literal and dynamic translation. It’s a vast enterprise. I try not to think of its enormity ..." — @rjdent.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/12/02/a...minorliteratures.com“A Word as a Key Opening a Door:” An Interview with R. J. Dent — Matthew KinlinR.J. Dent is a renowned translator of French literature, whose published significant works include The Songs of Maldoror(Infinity Land Press), The Flowers of Evil (Incunabula), Speculations(Black S… 152
Reposted by monalisa vittiJoseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 02/12/2025"Entering a text to translate it is finding a word or phrase that acts as a key opening a door into the world that the text describes. I use that door to enter that world." 032
Reposted by monalisa vittiEric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 28/11/2025feel strongly that you shouldn't buy shit on black friday, BUT if you did want to buy something, why not buy my books from the incomparable indie distributor @asterismbooks.bsky.social? TOADSTONES (original weird fiction) and NIGHT FEARS (collection of translated fic from Weird Tales magazine)? 173
monalisa vitti @monalisavitti.bsky.social · 26/11/2025mobilize.us/s/ppIGlEmobilize.usJoin Analilia's People Powered Campaign! · Analilia Mejía for New JerseySign up to volunteer with Analilia for New Jersey! Analilia Mejia is a mom, grassroots organizer, and nationally recognized advocate for working families. She led the fight for a $15 minimum wage and... 020
Reposted by monalisa vittiminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 04/11/2025"The classical carnivalesque reverses power relations. So, the right flipped the flip, and thus it becomes a punching-down version of the carnivalesque; the cruelty becomes part of that reversed affect." Jack Z. Bratich talks to Daniel Lukes minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/i...minorliteratures.com“It’s not just that the far right is reactionary, that it reacts to something, but it’s a preventive counter-revolution”: An Interview with Jack Z. Bratich — Daniel LukesAs pundits scramble to define fascism for Trump 2.0, a recent book by media scholar Jack Z. Bratich, investigating the theme of “microfascism,” may come in handy. The term, coined by Gilles Deleuze… 042
Reposted by monalisa vittiminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 04/11/2025"Today, what does it mean to take the internet as the media cultural expression of contemporary fascism? Or certain digital networks and the production of memes?" Jack Z. Bratich talks to Daniel Lukes minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/i...minorliteratures.com“It’s not just that the far right is reactionary, that it reacts to something, but it’s a preventive counter-revolution”: An Interview with Jack Z. Bratich — Daniel LukesAs pundits scramble to define fascism for Trump 2.0, a recent book by media scholar Jack Z. Bratich, investigating the theme of “microfascism,” may come in handy. The term, coined by Gilles Deleuze… 023
Reposted by monalisa vittiminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 02/11/2025and coming up this week ... — Jack Z. Bratich interviewed by Daniel Lukes — an extract from Nebojša Lujanović's Cloud the Color of Skin, translated by @enaselimo.bsky.social 024
monalisa vitti @monalisavitti.bsky.social · 01/11/2025link to donate to local food banks in nj cfbnj.donorsupport.co/page/FUNHHUF...cfbnj.donorsupport.coShutdown: Federal employees & SNAP recipients in our state need foodWith the federal government shut down, federal workers in New Jersey don’t know when their next paycheck will arrive. And our neighbors who receive food assistance benefits and other federally funded ... 020
Reposted by monalisa vittipoemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 29/10/2025I mentioned this poem the other day. Alejandra Pizarnik wrote this to her friend (and perhaps crush?) Italian poet and translator of Dante, Cristina Campo. Rings of Ashes There is, in this waiting a rumor of breaking lilac 1111
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