My letter in this week’s issue of @thetls.bsky.social Finding myself in uncharted waters, I felt it necessary. Share if you care about making room in our literary culture for work that swims against the tide.
Eric T. Racher
@ericracher.bsky.social
Words in Nimrod, Exacting Clam, ballast, Apocalypse Confidential, minor literature[s], Socrates on the Beach, Your Impossible Voice, and elsewhere.
Here's @jeffchon.bsky.social on @guillermostitch.bsky.social: "Great writers constantly swim against the tide.... Once they reach a certain point ... the coast no longer looks small. It looks complete."
The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch
Reviewed by Jeff Chon
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O Goddess, now sing of Achilles, Who gave Agamemnon the willies, And whose murderous rage Not a thing could assuage Until Hector was pushing up lilies.
Tell, Muse, of a man complicated, Whose nostos was somewhat belated. He got hooked on Calypso Who would gyrate her hips so He'd stay, while Penelope waited.
Io e ’ compagni eravam vecchi e tardi quando venimmo a quella foce stretta dov’ Ercule segnò li suoi riguardi acciò che l’uom più oltre non si metta...
A. E. Stallings@aestallings.bsky.social · 2d agoWeirdly, the Odyssey and Ceuta discourses have one degree of separation, as Ceuta features large in Ulysses's further adventures per Dante (which adventures largely inform Nolan)!
Tell, Muse, of a man complicated, Whose nostos was somewhat belated. He got hooked on Calypso Who would gyrate her hips so He'd stay, while Penelope waited.
#StrageDiBologna #2Agosto1980 #PerNonDimenticare #Memoria Programma della giornata in occasione del 46° anniversario della Strage di Bologna. Per non dimenticare.
2 agosto 1980 strage alla stazione di Bologna. Per non dimenticare.
ICYMI—last week @ minor lits ... « [E]crire protège de l’inévitable moment où passera l’éponge sur le tableau noir »: Interview avec @autreauxp.bsky.social (ENG translation below) minorliteratures.com/2026/07/28/e...
« [E]crire protège de l’inévitable moment où passera l’éponge sur le tableau noir »: Interview avec Patrick Autréaux — Cristina Politano
Patrick Autréaux est un écrivain et médecin français dont le dernier roman, Avenue des Amériques (Gallimard, 2026), retrace son ambivalence vis-à-vis de son pays d’adoption, les États-Unis. Troisiè…
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#2agosto1980 Quando i fascisti, la P2, i depistaggi, bombardarono #Bologna. La strage alla stazione di Bologna: 85 morti e più di 200 feriti. #strategiadellatensione ricordiamo? Difesa #democrazia non finisce mai. Oggi per @mm-repubblica-bot.bsky.social (mie vignette: maurobiani.it/tag/2-agosto/)
O Goddess, now sing of Achilles, Who gave Agamemnon the willies, And whose murderous rage Not a thing could assuage Until Hector was pushing up lilies.
In 3:AM Magazine, @guillermostitch.bsky.social responds to his critics with a breathtaking essay about his novel, or "literary action," THE COAST OF EVERYTHING.
A Literary Action – 3:AM Magazine
My ‘novel’, The Coast of Everything, was published on June 16th (Bloomsday, cheekily enough) and in fairly short order had accumulated a number of lengthy reviews in prominent places that exhibited a conspicuously uniform hostility and (the author would suggest) misunderstanding. It was almost a...
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"What each review has in common with the others is that it reads like the report of a surveyor who can’t find the front door, and so (for his supper) surveys the facade." A response to some baffling reviews of The Coast of Everything. Share if you care. www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-litera...
Years ago I enjoyed poems by JH Prynne. His death moved me to read him more systematically. A revelation. I encountered anew the rigour & abandon, brio & determined care, utter originality & deep rootedness in literary history that constitute a truly vocational poet. Here is my thread-essay 1/104
Very pleased with today's mail. Maurizio Vitale. La lingua del Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) di Francesco Petrarca.
did i mention i used to be a boxer? check out my new essay about it therumpus.net/2026/06/26/s...
Shorty - The Rumpus
People stopped to look. Visitors asked if I was one of Rodney’s fighters and everyone confirmed that I was.
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Poems about Hollywood as a place of emigres and exiles, a place always eating up and reinventing its past, in a range of poetic forms: done with a light, deft touch, and with a selection of translations from other Russians who ended up in LA at its core.
"But it’s a toddler’s freedom they speak of—the freedom everybody but it knows it cannot have. The freedom to shove whatever it comes across into its mouth. The political philosophy of the pig at its trough." Thanks to @booksireland.bsky.social for publishing this excerpt. A favourite. #booksky
Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · 2mo ago"I ask you, chutki, is it any wonder the country finds itself in the throes of an opioid epidemic if this is the way they furnish their meeting spaces?" The Coast of Everything, by Guillermo Stitch @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social @booksupstairs.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/an-extract-f...
