Tobias Ryan
@TobiasvRyan
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writer, translator | editor @MinorLits
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the dream
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my hot take is i don't think anybody should be dating we should all hold hands and walk into the sea
my hot take is i don’t think anybody should be dating until their shit is together. eating healthy, working out regularly, having a morning routine, a spiritual practice, a therapist, financial discipline. things like that have to come first.
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any examples of books you started out disliking but which won you over as you kept reading?
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this is about as cool as you can look
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someday I hope to be the person I think I am when I look at myself in the books on my desk
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this year I'm thankful for the literary community that exists online because I'm certain that in person you're even more insufferable
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there's a recurring character who has been in every bit of fiction I've ever written — he's never described, mentioned, referenced or referred to but I know he's there
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As I prepare for this new role please know that I am open to bribery, flattery and seduction
ANNOUCEMENT 📢
Some changes in the magazine.
Please welcome our new fiction editor,
@TobiasvRyan
and let's thank
@_elilee
for 8 years at the helm! Eli, who is stepping down to focus on personal projects, will be our "fiction editor emeritus".
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I see your trendy Fitzcarraldos and raise you pulp Gombrowicz
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gonna tweet "who are some good writers?" then respond "no I said *good writers" to every suggestion
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four best (most enjoyed) books so far this year - if I had to chose one it would be the Lê
Love seeing everyone’s four so here’s my four
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gradually coming to a better understanding of what it is I want from fiction: no plot, no paragraphs, no settings, no descriptions, no feelings, no humour, no characters, no narrator, no words, no pages
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City I dislike: Paris
City I think is overrated: Paris
City I like: Paris
City I love: Paris
City I most feel myself in: Paris
City I still need to visit: Paris
City I dream of living in: Paris
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from the Translator's Preface by Alexander Booth
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write drunk, edit sober, but then read it back drunk again so you feel like a genius before submitting
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part deux — not having a phone is great
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Beckett in the laundrette
(I know, I know, it's seriouuuuus)
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would any publishers out there be interested in my memoir about being tiresomely self-absorbed?
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"She experiences the kiss as flashes of contact and emptiness, softness around the edges, nothing in the middle where the kiss lands on the white scythe-shaped scar in the center of her palm ..."
new fiction from
@aliner
- today
@MinorLits
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haven't read Wittgenstein before so if you have advice on how to proceed to best advantage go for it ...
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the goal is not to win prizes, gain prestige, even make any money, but simply to write without succumbing to the apparently inexorable wank of it all
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London had it's horses, in Paris the windmill fell off the Moulin Rouge
Les joies d’aller bosser à 3h : se retrouver nez à nez avec l’hélice du moulin rouge tombée par terre
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things have never felt so fragile, feel like this could all disappear; people leaving, deactivating, communities teetering - so if anyone out there wants to admit to a secret crush, seduce me or send me nudes before it's too late, DMs are open
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Fernand Léger for 'La Fin du monde filmée par l'ange de N.-D.'
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I understand nothing about writing and even less about literature
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living humbly on bread and butter, but in France so the bread is the best you've ever had and the butter is so good it makes you cry
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next week
@MinorLits
opens for 2 weeks for fiction submissions ... here are some guidelines:
- preference for short pieces: max word count is 3,000 but the shorter the better
- really not into "MFA realism", particularly of a North American kind (will expand if asked)
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a quick list of what I'm looking for!
no first person narration, no poignant recollections, nothing funny, no animals, no understated revelations, no sentiment, no family stuff ; they less you write the better and if you don't write at all I'll love you forever
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days I write, I have peace in my mind ; days I don't, I'm sullen, vicious, a dog
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every building in Paris should have some kind of literature-adjacent attic dweller, with any attempts to remove them sanctioned by the Ministry of Culture
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a new translation of Marie-Laure Dagoit's CHEFFE DE BATAILLE
(with an absolutely beautiful cover)
now available
@poetry_weekend
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today's my parents' 40th wedding anniversary and we found these photos of my mum from their honeymoon
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spoke to
@MicWink
about Joe Grim, the arduous path to publication, and the pugilistic tenacity of the lifetime writer - up now
@MinorLits
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1946 — and so far kicking the ass of every contemporary, neurotic first-person monologue (« Bernhardian » or otherwise) I've recently read
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got a new phone with a new camera instead of just the selfie one, so if you're sick of seeing this same view all the time best unfollow now because it's going to get disgusting
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the problem with throwing oneself in the Seine is that it's been done to death
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"My day proceeded as usual: lazy declarations of war against my life’s decisions [...] My life is lonesome, yes, but I’ve learned to like it. Or at least, like it enough."
today
@MinorLits
new fiction from
@bartlebytaco
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smug as fuck because after years of having to go out to Saint Cloud to teach at a shitty faculty building there, everything has been moved to Saint-Germain-des-Prés, which I can walk to, and actually feels like a working in a university in Paris
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unfortunately the only thing that seems to make me happy is doing a stupid little bit of writing
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a particular woman said she loves something I wrote which is all I've wanted since I met her fifteen years ago - I can stop doing this now
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Pick any bookcase in your house. Second shelf from the top. Sixth book from the right. What is it?
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Pick any bookcase in your house. Second shelf from the top. Sixth book from the right. What is it?
Oh!
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me and who
Necrogamy was the practice of marrying a dead person, also called posthumous marriage or ghost marriage. This was legally recognized in France in 1804 to allow marriage to fallen soldiers, but was practiced extralegally elsewhere in Europe.
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not funded off the back of fossil fuels OR genocide, and you're highly unlikely to run into mewling centrist media types -- might even get a little political, why not
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"Don’t turn around. Look straight ahead. At me. No. Don’t turn. There, straight ahead."
'GLANTZ: A Prelude' is up on the
@sublunaryeds
site now
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Sublunary fairy came, and I only had to leave one other person's teeth under my pillow
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