Amina Memory
@aminamemorycain.bsky.social
Writer. Los Angeles. Thinking about books & art and aesthetic & transcendent experience. aminacain.com
“In fact, the lamp-lighted table is a little world in itself, and a dreamer-philosopher may well fear lest our indirect lighting cause us to lose the center of the evening room.” (Bachelard, The Poetics of Space) Dorelia by Lamplight at Toulouse, Gwen John, 1903-4 (Private collection)
An excerpt from Denise Rose Hansen's debut novel BLUE SUNSET just went up at @literaryhub.bsky.social!
Blue Sunset
The Author is facing the sea, his cheeks orange from the lowering sun. There’s Maja, walking towards him, from behind, tentative, yet her right arm is reaching for him, reaching around him. No soun…
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What a privilege to have @aminamemorycain.bsky.social write for us
Amina Memory@aminamemorycain.bsky.social · 4d agoFor the new issue of the quite wonderful journal draught (made at the School of Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art), I wrote about not being able to write a short story. Thank you to @jeremymillar.bsky.social and the other editors there! www.draughtjournal.com/article/a-ri...
For the new issue of the quite wonderful journal draught (made at the School of Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art), I wrote about not being able to write a short story. Thank you to @jeremymillar.bsky.social and the other editors there! www.draughtjournal.com/article/a-ri...
A Ritual for Not Writing a Short Story
<p>I don’t usually follow one – a ritual for writing – but something must have been different that month of May. I’d finished revisions on my novel an
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Publishers Weekly describes Denise Rose Hansen's BLUE SUNSET as "hypnotic," which feels quite apt . . . @aminamemorycain.bsky.social said it "streams onto the page in layers or sheets or waves." Grateful for this review.
Blue Sunset by Denise Rose Hansen
A Danish academic begins an affair with a famous Italian writer in this hypnotic novel from Hansen (Walking Through Palermo). Ma...
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Trump ignores a question about "what did mean when you said 'let them take out Los Angeles and San Diego?'"
thinking of changing my out of office reply to damn that's crazy. Best, Elizabeth Harper
"No room for violence." The violence is coming from the state!
Dorothy PUB DAY only comes once a year. And it's here! 🎉 Happy pub day to BLUE SUNSET by Denise Rose Hansen and WHAT REMAINS by Brais Lamela (translated from the Galician by Jacob Rogers)! We're honored to be publishing these two beautiful and brilliant debut novels.
I got up before sunrise to go 18 miles on foot to reach the dam nine miles north of my house, out under the freeway and into the desert. Sun and wind and rocky plains where there used to be a river, egrets hunting the shallow green pools amid the stones. Thinking hard about the future of water.
alright how many odes do you want chicago pope I could get into it
Dustin A. Chacón@lingdustin.bsky.social · 2w agoI've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
“I’ve hardly come across such a deep and candid work about friendship—and friendship ending—than Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s SOCIAL DISTANCING. A reflection on pain, aloneness, & the pandemic, but also touch, attachment, and community. While reading it, I felt close to this book." —Amina Cain🌺
Yes, SOCIAL DISTANCING will be out on March 2, 2027 from @semiotexte.bsky.social, look at the gorgeous cover!!🌺Galleys coming soon, so let me know if you need an advance copy for any potential media coverage🌺Gorgeous blurbs by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Johanna Hedva, & Amina Cain below, get ready🌺
we are not worthy
Amina Memory@aminamemorycain.bsky.social · 2w agoDeeply honored to have been able to write about the first three films by French filmmaker Leos Carax for the Criterion Collection. His movies were important to me when I was younger, and they are important to me still. www.criterion.com/current/post...
Deeply honored to have been able to write about the first three films by French filmmaker Leos Carax for the Criterion Collection. His movies were important to me when I was younger, and they are important to me still. www.criterion.com/current/post...
Three Films by Leos Carax: Vital Signs
With their mix of comedy, ecstasy, and aesthetic strangeness, the French auteur’s first three features grant us access to psychic states that we might not otherwise be able to enter.
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My friend — and co-founder of @dorothyproject.bsky.social — Martin Riker is working on a real humdinger of a novel, and n+1 has an excerpt! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-54/fic...
Adventures in Capitalism | Martin Riker
“This success then drove me to want something more, bigger, so next I funded a hospital, or really it was just a wing of a hospital. But walking past it gave me a different feeling than walking past m...
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This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
New from me: Why is Communion so WEIRD? Why does the second half feel like a different book? Why does it get Catholicism 101 wrong? What’s with all the non sequiturs about spies and why did Ross Douthat quote a literal Nazi in the NYT last week? Well, Vance thinks we’re too stupid to ask…
J. D. Vance’s Straussian Moment | Los Angeles Review of Books
The US vice president wrote his new book without citing his source—Peter Thiel.
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New on the blog this week, women writers in translation - six recommendations from Daunt Books. Including titles by Montserrat Roig (tr Julia Sanches), Dominique Barbéris (tr John Cullen) & Elisa Shua Dusapin (tr Aneesa Abbas Higgins). #BookSky 💙📚 #WITMonth jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/08/27/w...
Women in Translation – six of the best from Daunt Books
Today, for Women in Translation Month, I’m showcasing six books by women writers in translation, all published in the UK by Daunt Books. Daunt has a long tradition of supporting writers from across…
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Hello! 👋 I'm hoping to raise money for two Bay Area cat rescues. If you post a screenshot of you donating at least $20, I will answer a style-related question for you. But first, let me tell you about the rescues, why they're worthy of your support, and hopefully get you to adopt a cat. 🧵
my heart can't take it, you have to adopt them, otherwise I have to upend my whole life to make sure they stay together
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4mo agoThat includes Carol and Hubert, a year-old brother and sister pair that would love to be adopted together. Unfortunately, since they're no longer kittens, no one wants them anymore, so they're at risk of being separated. Haley is hoping to find someone who can adopted them as a bonded pair.
chicago! ‘tis ONE WEEK until i read & converse in person (6/18) at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social with @makecommon.bsky.social ! if you would like to attend, the info’s below: pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/50470
Jay Besemer and Joe Hall | Pilsen Community Books
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ARCs are in for our two Fall titles, both slender novels, both brilliant: Denise Rose Hansen's BLUE SUNSET and Brais Lamela's WHAT REMAINS (trans. by Jacob Rogers)! Out on October 6, 2026!
May is Short Story Month! Here, then, for your reading pleasure, is a short story from Amina Cain's collection CREATURE, which we published in 2013. It is called "Delicately Feeling." @aminamemorycain.bsky.social www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Delicately Feeling
If the air is cold enough I feel something. It might only be on my arm or my hand, but it is there. All last year I wore a brooch pinned to my coat. I was conscious of it. When I walked down the stree...
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