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Israel A. Bonilla

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Sleep Decades, my short story collection, finally has a cover (all merit goes to @MrWojoRising ). You can preorder the book here: .

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Israel A. Bonilla

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Henry James on Stoicism—

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Emerson on writing—

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"It seemed to me that literature added rooms to the world, as one would add rooms to a house. And those rooms were infinite and attractive." Bioy Casares

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@as_a_worker I think it'll be an insignificant ripple in this vast ocean of decay. The media knows how to frame these events in such a manner as to make them seem pure spectacle and devoid of any political significance beyond the two-party tussle.

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I'm very pleased to announce that my short story collection has a home— @MalarkeyBooks . Alas, the details will have to wait.

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Fourier on human potential— [Translation: Susan Hanson]

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2023 in Writing—

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@__AustinAdams Here's Frye—

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"And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life." C. S. Peirce

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Israel A. Bonilla

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I have a natural sympathy for lists, but there is an art to them. The editors of Minor Literature[s] have a fine grasp of it. I encourage everyone to read at leisure. The rest of my entry is here:

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The handsomest lit mag is here. And with a chapter from my novel-in-progress to boot. The company is delightful, as ever. Un abrazo de gratitud a la incansable @jess_sequeira .

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Today, November 6th, 2023— Gargantua and Pantagruel Ulysses Sartor Resartus Moby-Dick Anna Karenina The Rainbow Novelas amorosas y ejemplares Pedro Páramo Uno, nessuno e centomila Life and Times of Michael K

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"Anybody can write a first novel. If an author can jump the hurdle of his second he can settle, without too much trouble—except for shortage of money, creative agony, and the hostility or indifference of the critics and the public—to a kind of career." Anthony Burgess

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"I like the savor of desire / before I'm satisfied." Petronius, tr. by Arrowsmith

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It is here and it is beautiful.

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"Facts are a very inferior form of fiction." Virginia Woolf

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You can now read "Remnant," a short story from Sleep Decades, in the new issue of @ExactingClam : A warm thank you to Guillermo and Charles.

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Said on the condition of exile—

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Simenon [Translation: Helen Eustis]

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I just published a short story from my forthcoming collection, Sleep Decades ( @MalarkeyBooks ). You can read it in @slicesofanxiety : . A thanks to Cody, of course.

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Pleasant to sight and touch—

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My first micro-chapbook is finally available to download for free through @GhostCityPress : I'm very grateful to @KevinBertolero for his patience with assorted hitches and also to @KwanAnnTan and @sp1it for the selection. Great experience. [1/2]

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Israel A. Bonilla

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I have a new poem in @ricjournal . You can read it here: A warm thank you to Saudamini and Philippe.

RIC Journal

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Our new issue is now online! Enter a world of erotic dreams, dead men, psyche, witchcraft, opera, hearts, hospitals, and more. Please read and share:

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Nietzsche's advice to the editors of the world. [Translation: Gary Handwerk]

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I have three poems in the new issue of @ExactingClam . And it's finally home. As ever, grateful to @GuillermoStitch and Jacob. They've managed a great year.

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The last dive.

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"Even a wasted bit of life is priceless when composed properly or hymned aright." William H. Gass

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Schopenhauer on dreams. [Translation: Payne]

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My grandmother has passed away. Never comfortable with tepid emotions, she was rowdy, obstinate, and mettlesome—profoundly flawed and alive. I will miss her.

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The work is done. Now comes the indefinite wait.

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I want to share a beautiful passage I've translated for an essay on Bernardo de Balbuena's Grandeur of Mexico.

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Nabokov on Nabokov.

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Deleuze on the baroque conception of death— [Translation: Charles J. Stivale]

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The debate around the uselessness of poetry has an illustrious and enlivening tradition behind it. What could possibly be gained by cutting it off in such a frivolous and backhanded manner? [1/2]

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A short story about depression: From my forthcoming collection:

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@pictorangelicvs Here's Henry James in Portrait of a Lady:

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A short story about the old: From my forthcoming collection:

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@jkoyocku Lo peor es la típica presuposición meritocrática: si eres inteligente, no mereces estar en la calle; de otra forma, sí.

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3 years

Glad to announce I'm bringing my man into the twenty-first century thanks to the tireless Alan at @MalarkeyBooks . King Ludd's Rag has some blistering stories, a great format, and an even greater price. Why not give it a go?

Malarkey on the Radio

@MalarkeyBooks

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Getting to work on King Ludd’s Rag No. 9, which features first-rate fiction by @iab9208 and Noha Khalil, who I’m not sure is on twitter. (If you are you can yell at me! Sorry!) Gonna speed this through and get it out in the world ASAP so yous can read it!

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Israel A. Bonilla

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I have two new poems over at @ballastjournal . You can read them here: A warm thank you to @JacobSchepers and Sara Judy.

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@ballastjournal

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🐙ballast 2.2 is alive 🐙 featuring poetry by Kristin Lueke, Elijah Guerra, @JoseHernandezDz , Sharon Denmark, @dialogofadream , @simkinsandrade , @ParkerLogan13 , @ianwilliamspoet , Robert Caret, Alex Bernstein, @TrampolinePoet1 , Nico Vassilakis...

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Davenport—

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I have three new poems over at @maximus__mag . Many thanks to Hayden for the space. I highly recommend downloading the first issue; it is heterodox and sharp.

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I translated an essay by Alfonso Reyes, one of Mexico's greatest literary critics and essayists.

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"The underside of culture is blood, torture, death, and terror." Fredric Jameson

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I translated an essay by Pío Baroja, Spain's eternal nonconformist.

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Frye on the sociability of art.

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"Sometimes the daemon asks the novelist for an epic in verse; sometimes it asks the poet for a critical treatise; sometimes it asks the playwright for a book of aphorisms; sometimes it asks for silence."

At the Astillero: II. The Life of John Sterling

Sotavento: Isn’t this great proof that genius, or talent, or whatever you want to call it, can transform anything into art? The name in the title means almost nothing. Worse, perhaps. If you know...

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Another short story from Sleep Decades ( @MalarkeyBooks ). You can read it in @MISTERBULLBULL : A warm thanks to Benjamin.

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After yesterday's screening of Solaris— Memory is our greatest privilege and our greatest burden, the barrier over which lies an unintelligible depth.

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"Art changes, genres collide in order to preserve the experience of the world, in order for information—instead of the sensation of traditional form—to keep coming from the world." Shklovsky, tr. by Alexandra Berlina

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"Everything that is truly great must include an element of laughter. Otherwise it becomes threatening, terrible, or pompous; in any case, it is limited. Laughter lifts the barrier and clears the path." Bakhtin, tr. by McGee

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Vidal on the novel

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"We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, its own game, and there is as much difference betwixt us and ourselves as betwixt us and others." Montaigne, tr. by Charles Cotton

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Casares on Joyce: Garrulous waterfall, barely understood, from which rose up, like iridescent vapour, the prestige of everything hermetic, strange, and modern.

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Melville on the pleasures of smoking.

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"Story is eager to reach its climax; fiction is all foreplay." William H. Gass

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Arrived.

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Borges on Joyce: I wish for his fame to abate, because it is truly a calamity—it stupefies writers and even drives them to grievous imitations. [1/2]

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"Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. Love sees what is best in the beloved, even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light." J. M. Coetzee

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A historically and aesthetically informed overview of Sebald's work. Here are just a few of Ryan's acute observations:

Ryan Ruby

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3 years

Honored to be making my debut in the pages of the @NewLeftReview with this piece on SPEAK, SILENCE, Carole Angier's biography of W.G. Sebald. Far from being an anachronism, I argue, Sebald is one of the most representative writers of the Long 90s.

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2022 in Writing—

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A short story about amor fati: From my forthcoming collection:

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Seriousness is a dangerous form of intoxication.

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Last push before the summer's over— I published exactly one month ago a micro-chapbook through @GhostCityPress . You can download it for free (or with a donation) here:

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The Clam ( @ExactingClam ) has arrived in Mexico. It's a riot and a bargain. Here are two of the poems I published in this issue.

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"La modernité commence avec la recherche d'une littérature impossible." Roland Barthes

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You can now read a new short story from Sleep Decades over at @MinorLits : Grateful to @TobiasvRyan , as ever.

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Delight after delight after delight after delight after

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A short story about the composite self: From my forthcoming collection:

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My divertimento on De Quincey's most famous work is an ambivalent tribute, so there will be arbitrary name-dropping (Cervantes, Hume, Quevedo, Johnson, Góngora, Ludlow), a smattering of Spanish/Latin just for the sake of it, and an extended apostrophe.

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Great book, no explainer. Nominate 6: @nicoscosc @sjaburns @GeoffreyDMorri1 @sceloglau @__AustinAdams @albernaj

Matthew Spencer

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3 years

Great book, no explainer, nominate 6 @joshuarothes @perfidiouscript @dreamsofbeing_ @aliner @realmtroberts @iab9208

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Closing the year with rereads is a necessary ritual.

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There's a date: 27/7/2021. @GhostCityPress

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“When you shall say, ‘As others do, so will I: I renounce, I am sorry for it, my early visions: I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go, until a more convenient season’; —then dies the man in you.” Emerson

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"We poor innocents drink but too much without thirst. Not I truly, who am a sinner, for I never drink without thirst, either present or future. To prevent it, as you know, I drink for the thirst to come. I drink eternally." Rabelais, tr. by Urquhart & Motteux

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@_ryanruby_ Jameson makes a compelling case for its usefulness. But at this point, the automatic assumption is that it means precisely "the ultimate senescence, breakdown, and death of the system."

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"How many poems he denied himself / in his observant progress, lesser things / than the relentless contact he desired." Wallace Stevens

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1 year

Baudelaire: A given star is born with given functions; so is a man. Each carries out his predestined part, magnificently and humbly. Who could conceive a biography of the sun? It is a story which, since that star first gave signs of life, is full of monotony, light and grandeur.

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A short story about ugliness: From my forthcoming collection:

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Add Indiana to the top of the pile.

Ryan Ruby

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Gary Indiana is one of America's greatest living critics. I wrote about FIRE SEASON, a new selection of his essays, for @NewLeftReview .

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Poetry, again and again, has benefitted from risk and continuous self-questioning. It is a fractious endeavor, and these dismissals, far from serving future poets, will only harden their perspectives. [2/2]

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First-rate magazine. A subscription should be an obvious move by now. Hope you find my short story up to snuff. Grateful to everyone over at @sublunaryeds .

Sublunary Editions

@sublunaryeds

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Feast your eyes on the next iteration of Firmament, hitting shelves, stands, and stoops in January. With @aliner , @LapsusLima , Henry Miller, Emanuel Carnevali, @uhume , @vilmastuttle , @benlibman , @iab9208 , @RachelGenn , @izidora , @saintsoftness & more!

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Goethe on the artist's education.

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Quite the wait, but excellent.

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I recently had a short story published in @berfrois . It's about a couple of radicals (?) and their sway: Thankful to @medhawrites and Russell for the chance.

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I wrote about an imaginary poet for @YIVJournal , which, by the way, has just arrived. Thanks again to @stephen_beachy and Keith. Here's the link:

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Here's a fragment from an upcoming piece—

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Highet on useless knowledge.

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Indeed, I am indulging my obsession with lists— Lives of the Poets Historia de las ideas estéticas en España El deslinde Patriotic Gore The Classical Tradition Anatomy of Criticism Mimesis Distinction The Limits of Interpretation Natural Supernaturalism

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@JFrankensteiner We need more stories with people having the most amateurish possible philosophical conversations. Only then is the convergence of philosophy and art endowed with life.

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A new excerpt from Our Saturnalias is up at @new_sinews , an outstanding magazine. Very grateful to @iLLepitaph —he's a one-man band.

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"Les plus belles oeuvres des hommes sont obstinément douloureuses. Que serait le récit du bonheur? Rien, que ce qui le prépare, puis ce qui le détruit, ne se raconte." André Gide

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The second issue of @maximus__mag is now available for download: . It's great to share pages with some rattling company.

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"To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like." Northrop Frye

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minor literature[s]

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whet your appetite/bide your time with this here extract:

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I have just seen Tarkovsky's Offret in the theater. It was a supreme aesthetic experience. I am left with a pervasive sense of awe and with the certainty of having shed a part of my being—it is a film that merits a lifelong passion. [1/2]

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March arrivals.

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