monalisa vitti
@monalisavitti.bsky.social
aka cristina politano // essay and fiction writer // interviews for minor lits
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Zohran 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
December 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Zohran 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
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"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
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— @rjdent.bsky.social
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“A Word as a Key Opening a Door:” An Interview with R. J. Dent — Matthew Kinlin
R.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…
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December 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"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
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— @rjdent.bsky.social
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"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."
“A Word as a Key Opening a Door:” An Interview with R. J. Dent — @matthewkinlin.bsky.social
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“A Word as a Key Opening a Door:” An Interview with R. J. Dent — Matthew Kinlin
R.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…
minorliteratures.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"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."
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feel 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)?
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
feel 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)?
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"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...
Jack Z. Bratich talks to Daniel Lukes
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“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 Lukes
As 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…
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November 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"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...
Jack Z. Bratich talks to Daniel Lukes
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/i...
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"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...
Jack Z. Bratich talks to Daniel Lukes
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“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 Lukes
As 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…
minorliteratures.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"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...
Jack Z. Bratich talks to Daniel Lukes
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/i...
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and 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
— Jack Z. Bratich interviewed by Daniel Lukes
— an extract from Nebojša Lujanović's Cloud the Color of Skin, translated by @enaselimo.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
and 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
— Jack Z. Bratich interviewed by Daniel Lukes
— an extract from Nebojša Lujanović's Cloud the Color of Skin, translated by @enaselimo.bsky.social
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Shutdown: Federal employees & SNAP recipients in our state need food
With 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 ...
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November 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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I 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
Rings of Ashes
There is, in this waiting
a rumor of breaking lilac
October 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I 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
Rings of Ashes
There is, in this waiting
a rumor of breaking lilac
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“[W]e do inhabit, similar to the the years before modernism, a sense that our world has irrevocably changed”: An Interview with @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social — @monalisavitti.bsky.social
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“[W]e do inhabit, similar to the the years before modernism, a sense that our world has irrevocably changed”: An Interview with Morten Høi Jensen — Cristina Politano
Morten Høi Jensen is a Danish-American writer whose recent book, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain (Yale University Press, 2025) presents, through the l…
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October 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
“[W]e do inhabit, similar to the the years before modernism, a sense that our world has irrevocably changed”: An Interview with @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social — @monalisavitti.bsky.social
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" I don’t know what it is about him, but I sympathize with his neuroses and anxieties. He was an intensely neurotic and a very fearful person, and it comes out a lot in in his fiction."
@mortenhoijensen.bsky.social discusses his new book on Thomas Mann with @monalisavitti.bsky.social
@mortenhoijensen.bsky.social discusses his new book on Thomas Mann with @monalisavitti.bsky.social
“[W]e do inhabit, similar to the the years before modernism, a sense that our world has irrevocably changed”: An Interview with @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social — @monalisavitti.bsky.social
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“[W]e do inhabit, similar to the the years before modernism, a sense that our world has irrevocably changed”: An Interview with Morten Høi Jensen — Cristina Politano
Morten Høi Jensen is a Danish-American writer whose recent book, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain (Yale University Press, 2025) presents, through the l…
minorliteratures.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
" I don’t know what it is about him, but I sympathize with his neuroses and anxieties. He was an intensely neurotic and a very fearful person, and it comes out a lot in in his fiction."
@mortenhoijensen.bsky.social discusses his new book on Thomas Mann with @monalisavitti.bsky.social
@mortenhoijensen.bsky.social discusses his new book on Thomas Mann with @monalisavitti.bsky.social
my latest interview with the writer @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social on his book about thomas mann and the magic mountain
“[W]e do inhabit, similar to the the years before modernism, a sense that our world has irrevocably changed”: An Interview with @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social — @monalisavitti.bsky.social
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“[W]e do inhabit, similar to the the years before modernism, a sense that our world has irrevocably changed”: An Interview with Morten Høi Jensen — Cristina Politano
Morten Høi Jensen is a Danish-American writer whose recent book, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain (Yale University Press, 2025) presents, through the l…
minorliteratures.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
my latest interview with the writer @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social on his book about thomas mann and the magic mountain
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Coming up this week ...
— poetic non-fiction from @dluntz.bsky.social
— @monalisavitti.bsky.social talks to @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social about his book on Thomas Mann
— fiction from Mikra Namani
— poetic non-fiction from @dluntz.bsky.social
— @monalisavitti.bsky.social talks to @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social about his book on Thomas Mann
— fiction from Mikra Namani
October 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Coming up this week ...
— poetic non-fiction from @dluntz.bsky.social
— @monalisavitti.bsky.social talks to @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social about his book on Thomas Mann
— fiction from Mikra Namani
— poetic non-fiction from @dluntz.bsky.social
— @monalisavitti.bsky.social talks to @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social about his book on Thomas Mann
— fiction from Mikra Namani
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Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
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"Suddenly a veil is lifted: our fantasies and abstractions dissipate when the empty socket of the State’s eye is filled by a human eye ..."
“Engineers of the Soul”: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos — Toti O’Brien
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“Engineers of the Soul”: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos — Toti O’Brien
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“Engineers of the Soul”: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos — Toti O’Brien
Recently hailed by the Italian daily Corriere della Sera as Greece’s probable candidate for a Nobel Prize in Literature, Dimitris Lyacos is one of the most highly regarded European a…
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October 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
"Suddenly a veil is lifted: our fantasies and abstractions dissipate when the empty socket of the State’s eye is filled by a human eye ..."
“Engineers of the Soul”: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos — Toti O’Brien
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/21/e...
“Engineers of the Soul”: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos — Toti O’Brien
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/21/e...
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“Engineers of the Soul”: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos — Toti O’Brien minorliteratures.com/2025/10/21/e...
“Engineers of the Soul”: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos — Toti O’Brien
Recently hailed by the Italian daily Corriere della Sera as Greece’s probable candidate for a Nobel Prize in Literature, Dimitris Lyacos is one of the most highly regarded European a…
minorliteratures.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
“Engineers of the Soul”: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos — Toti O’Brien minorliteratures.com/2025/10/21/e...
if you read one thing today, make it this urgent and lyrical interview between toti o’brien and greek novelist dmitris lyacos
“Engineers of the Soul”: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos — Toti O’Brien
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/21/e...
minorliteratures.com/2025/10/21/e...
“Engineers of the Soul”: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos — Toti O’Brien
Recently hailed by the Italian daily Corriere della Sera as Greece’s probable candidate for a Nobel Prize in Literature, Dimitris Lyacos is one of the most highly regarded European a…
minorliteratures.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
if you read one thing today, make it this urgent and lyrical interview between toti o’brien and greek novelist dmitris lyacos
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and coming up this week ...
— Toti O’Brien interviews Dimitris Lyacos
— experimental work from @gabrielflynn.bsky.social
— Toti O’Brien interviews Dimitris Lyacos
— experimental work from @gabrielflynn.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 7:57 AM
and coming up this week ...
— Toti O’Brien interviews Dimitris Lyacos
— experimental work from @gabrielflynn.bsky.social
— Toti O’Brien interviews Dimitris Lyacos
— experimental work from @gabrielflynn.bsky.social
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Very pleased to join the fellas of the excellent Pynchon podcast Slow Learners to discuss the women of Vineland and its connections to Against the Day, among other things. ⛏️💣 DIG!
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VINELAND EP 4: Keeping it DL (w/Ana Gavrilovska)
Podcast Episode · Slow Learners · 10/16/2025 · 1h 3m
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October 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Very pleased to join the fellas of the excellent Pynchon podcast Slow Learners to discuss the women of Vineland and its connections to Against the Day, among other things. ⛏️💣 DIG!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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“Behold me now just as I am, Colette once said in a beautiful piece about how she was in her early 30s (my age) & alone, living in a one-room apartment on the first floor, a Parisian room near the Bois de Boulogne. Beholding herself in the mirror, just as she was.” (p91) #NYRBWomen25
October 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
“Behold me now just as I am, Colette once said in a beautiful piece about how she was in her early 30s (my age) & alone, living in a one-room apartment on the first floor, a Parisian room near the Bois de Boulogne. Beholding herself in the mirror, just as she was.” (p91) #NYRBWomen25
by Gregory Corso
October 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
by Gregory Corso
laszlo krazsnahorkai w/ hari kunzru in the yale review
October 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
laszlo krazsnahorkai w/ hari kunzru in the yale review
by Sylvia Plath, for the season
October 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
by Sylvia Plath, for the season