Bellelay — Simon Wortham (Simon Wortham) minorliteratures.com/2025/04/29/bel…

"Robert dreams he’s the puppet boy of this dark, beautiful dream [...] he is as free as air, joyously lost, inhuman. Just a scent, a feeling. A small thing that climbs into the woman’s heart ..." Bellelay — Simon Wortham minorliteratures.com/2025/04/29/bel…

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ICYMI ... last week @ minor lits ... — an extract from Simon Wortham's book on Robert Walser minorliteratures.com/2025/04/29/bel… — Monthly Dispatch #23, featuring everything we published in April (link pinned/follows)

and coming up in May ... essays from Jawni Han and Benjamin Robinson, fiction from Emily Lu, Matthew Spencer, and Zebulon Horse, fiction in translation from Anna Lidia Vega Serova, reviews of Saul Steinberg and Zdravka Evtimova, and interviews with Ben Libman and Diane Seuss ...