Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"if Ariane is weepy not able to win oaths of allegiance she immediately changes tack as happy to extract piddling promises of submission as she is to open fire this afternoon with the story of the perverse son and his babbling mother ..." tobiasryan.substack.com/p/idiot-talk...tobiasryan.substack.comIDIOT TALK [extract] — Linda Lê… her son loved her like mad his mother he’s never got over her death he married a babe a real beauty every week he would take his sweetheart to the family home and in that house which can’t have had ... 000
Reposted by Tobias RyanDavid Hering @davidhering.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New fiction from me today at @minorliteratures.bsky.social - this is part of a novel in progress. Big thanks to @tobiasvryan.bsky.social 052
Reposted by Tobias Ryanminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 01/10/2026today @ minor lits ... The Apparent Leader — @davidhering.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/10/01/t...minorliteratures.comThe Apparent Leader — David HeringHe was born under a cold star. He was told by his mother that she looked out of the window and saw it burning like polished metal, greater than the others in the constellations around it, and that … 123
Reposted by Tobias Ryanminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 30/09/2026... save the date: Tuesday, November 10th Paris Gerry Feehily Camille Kingué Daisy Lafarge more details soon ... 173
Reposted by Tobias RyanJoseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Our September Monthly Dispatch has been dispatched. Read it and subscribe here: minor literature[s] minorlits.substack.com?r=517vo&utm_...minorlits.substack.comminor literature[s] | Substackminor literatures ; stuttering cultures. Click to read minor literature[s], a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers. 042
Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Le romancier Gustavo Faverón Patriau: «Les locaux où l’on torture sont souvent des souterrains. L’horreur se dissimule» www.letemps.ch/culture/livr...letemps.chLe romancier Gustavo Faverón Patriau: «Les locaux où l’on torture sont souvent des souterrains. L’horreur se dissimule» - Le TempsL’écrivain péruvien signe un fabuleux recueil d’histoires, tout en méandres, fantastique et réaliste, inscrit dans une architecture vertigineuse 000
Reposted by Tobias RyanTobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026new @ Attic Scraps ... tobiasryan.substack.com/p/idiot-talk... 042
Reposted by Tobias Ryanminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Monthly 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... 076
Reposted by Tobias RyanJacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Summertime too, I replied to him, is also the season of smells, especially at the start, but they are different, they’re stronger and more acrid, sometimes with hints of rot and of freshly opened coffins. No doubt because of the wind.” —J. P. Martinet, ‘Jérôme’ (1978) 011
Reposted by Tobias Ryanminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 29/09/2026eyes on minor lits for a rancid mouthful of Jérôme ... 042
Reposted by Tobias RyanJacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“I told him it wasn’t too important, in the end. I knew a lot of remarkable people who didn’t care for headcheese salad at all, and that had in no way prevented them from succeeding in life.” —J. P. Martinet, ‘Jérôme’ (1978) 171
Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026new @ Attic Scraps ... tobiasryan.substack.com/p/idiot-talk... 042
Reposted by Tobias Ryanminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Monthly Dispatch #38 goes out tomorrow, ft. @katewagner.wehwalt.net @lucykulwiec.bsky.social @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social Nate Lippens, Dragan Aleksić (tr. David Vichnar) Susan Finlay, Adrian Duncan, Denise Rose Hansen & more ... sign up here: minorlits.substack.comminorlits.substack.comminor literature[s] | Substackminor literatures ; stuttering cultures. Click to read minor literature[s], a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers. 064
Reposted by Tobias Ryanminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 29/09/2026today @ minor lits ... “I think of my writing as European rather than English, or Danish for that matter”: An Interview with Denise Rose Hansen — Cristina Politano ( @dorothyproject.bsky.social ) minorliteratures.com/2026/09/29/i...minorliteratures.com“I think of my writing as European rather than English, or Danish for that matter”: An Interview with Denise Rose Hansen — Cristina PolitanoDenise Rose Hansen is a London-based Danish writer, editor, and founder of the independent press Lolli Editions. Her recent novel, Blue Sunset, is forthcoming from the Dorothy Project. The novel gi… 055
Reposted by Tobias Ryanya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is going to be great. I will be there in holographic form. 042
Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026if you bother me, I'll set Yanina on you and god help you then 141
Reposted by Tobias Ryanminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 27/09/2026ALSO! Monthly Dispatch #38 — feat. everything we published in September & more ... — will go out Wednesday sign up here: minorlits.substack.comminorlits.substack.comminor literature[s] | Substackminor literatures ; stuttering cultures. Click to read minor literature[s], a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers. 002
Reposted by Tobias Ryanminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 27/09/2026P.S. everyone who sent us a fiction submission should now have received a response of some kind if you sent a text and have heard nothing, get in touch—it means something went wrong **only applies to fiction** 022
Reposted by Tobias Ryanminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 27/09/2026and coming up this week ... - an interview with Denise Rose Hansen - fiction from @davidhering.bsky.social 023
Reposted by Tobias Ryanminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 27/09/2026ICYMI—last week @ minor lits ... Penguins — @lucykulwiec.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/09/22/p... Orgart — Dragan Aleksić [tr. David Vichnar] minorliteratures.com/2026/09/23/o... The Ultraviolet Catastrophe — Susan Finlay minorliteratures.com/2026/09/24/t...minorliteratures.comOrgart — Dragan Aleksić [tr. David Vichnar]Introduction — David Vichnar Dragan Aleksić’s year in Prague (1920–21) is one of those compressed episodes in avantgarde history where several circuits suddenly touch & spark.† Arriving in Octo… 033
Reposted by Tobias Ryanminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Berlin weekender ... 16th & 17th October ... details here: minorliteratures.com/minor-incide... 11511
Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026everyone who submitted fiction to @minorliteratures.bsky.social should now have received a response of some kind if you sent a text and have heard nothing, get in touch—it means something went wrong *this only applies to fiction, and is as much as I know, don't be asking about other submissions 001
Reposted by Tobias Ryanminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 25/09/2026change of venue!! details here: minorliteratures.com/minor-incide... 112
Reposted by Tobias Ryanminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Susan will be talking part in a roundtable discussion at our Berlin weekender, 16th-17th October ... more details here: minorliteratures.com/minor-incide...minorliteratures.comminor incident Berlin 202616/10: minor impromptu 1 venue: desirelines books, 19.30 Fraenkelufer 28, 10999 Berlin Subway: U8/U3 Kottbusser Tor; U8 Schöleinstraße; U7 Südstern readers: Alexander Booth is a poet, translator, c… 014
Reposted by Tobias Ryanminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 24/09/2026today @ minor lits ... The Ultraviolet Catastrophe — Susan Finlay minorliteratures.com/2026/09/24/t...minorliteratures.comThe Ultraviolet Catastrophe — Susan FinlayBut even though Hugh’s desire to flee his WG meant that he arrived at the Vibe Check a full 20 minutes earlier than expected, his many, more dedicated-to-the-cult-of-Ramesses colleagues were earlie… 124
Reposted by Tobias Ryanminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 23/09/2026today @ minor lits ... Orgart — Dragan Aleksić [tr. David Vichnar] minorliteratures.com/2026/09/23/o...minorliteratures.comOrgart — Dragan Aleksić [tr. David Vichnar]Introduction — David Vichnar Dragan Aleksić’s year in Prague (1920–21) is one of those compressed episodes in avantgarde history where several circuits suddenly touch & spark.† Arriving in Octo… 024
Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026« Le livre est la nuit qui se ferait jour : un astre noir, inéclairable et qui éclaire calmement. La lecture est cette calme lumière. La lecture transrorme en lumière ce qui n'est pas de l'ordre de l'éclairement. » MB 010
Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026please sign c.org/X65vZXMN9gc.orgSign the PetitionMenai Data Centre - SAY NO! 000
Reposted by Tobias RyanMathilde Montpetit @mathildegm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026As anyone who knows me is tired of hearing, I am very good at guessing who will win the Nobel prize. This year, though, I needed a bit of inspiration, and I wrote about it for The Auflauf's new SCENE series:theauflauf.comSCENE: Mathilde Montpetit, in search of a Nobel pick, goes to LaidakAnarchists, Ladbrokes, showtunes, and a little bit of literature 1209
Reposted by Tobias Ryanminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Lucy will be reading at pur Berlin weekender, 16th-17th October ... more details here: minorliteratures.com/minor-incide...minorliteratures.comminor incident Berlin 202616/10: minor impromptu 1 venue: desirelines books, 19.30 Fraenkelufer 28, 10999 Berlin Subway: U8/U3 Kottbusser Tor; U8 Schöleinstraße; U7 Südstern readers: Alexander Booth is a poet, translator, c… 001
