Minor Literature[s‪]‬ Minor Literatures

Fernando Sdrigotti in conversation with Thom Cuell, Tamim Sadikali, Naomi Frisby and James Miller, about their experiences writing about trauma.

The essays in this collection — edited by Sam Mills and Thom Cuell, published by Dodo Ink — range from the personal to the political, from the raw to the reflective, exploring topics such as grief, insomnia, anxiety, schizophrenia, meditation, abusive relationships, work, and the relationship between madness and creativity. 

Other contributors include: Neil Griffiths, Kirsty Logan, Tomoe Hill, Sophie Mackintosh, Rhiannon L. Cosslett, Monique Roffey, Alex Pheby, Marina Benjamin, Juliet Jacques, and the film-maker David Lynch, among others. 

Inspired by the works of Léon Spilliaert, Novella feeds on the Belgian symbolist’s atmospheric evocations of bleak and brooding horizons, shadowy buildings and solitary figures. A story of dislocation, doubling and disappearance, it is available now at: https://tobiasryan.substack.com/

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Originally from Wrexham, Tobias Ryan has been living in Paris, for the last eight years where he works as an English teacher and translator. He’s had stories published online by Open Pen and STORGY.

Twitter: @TobiasvRyan

Joseph Delgado’s poetry offers writing that doesn’t attempt to tame or domesticate the wildness of the human heart. His land is vast and populated with junkies, prostitutes, and dear old aunts who can teach you to skin a rabbit or kill a man. The smell of oil, grease, tobacco, and sex are not just piped in for the tourists.

While invoking nature, Delgado doesn’t rely on tired metaphors for the natural world. You get a sense that nature for him is always more than mere location where human action unfolds. Just the same, the landscape provides a framework and system of values in which human actions, from sex and murder to eating tortillas and driving cattle, can start to make sense.

This conversation was recorded in late 2020, by Frank Garrett.

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Joseph Delgado was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work has appeared in The Santa Fe Literary Review and Trajectory as well as in the anthology Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality published by Sibling Rivalry Press. San Francisco-based independent queer Chicanx Kórima Press published his first collection Ditch Water: Poems in 2013. Broken Mesas, also by Kórima Press, is forthcoming. He currently resides on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation in Mohave Valley, Arizona.

For the twentieth episode of The Quarantine Hotline Fernando Sdrigotti talks to Gary Budden, author, and co-editor of Influx Press. 

Tune in for a chat about London fiction, weird fiction, psychogeography, landscape punk, queen rats, the judderman, and more.

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Gary Budden writes fiction and creative non-fiction about the intersections of British sub-culture, landscape, psychogeography, hidden history, nature, horror, weird fiction and more. He is the author of Hollow Shores (Dead Ink, 2017) and London Incognita (Dead Ink, 2020) among other titles. He is co-founder and co-editor of Influx Press. 

Fernando Sdrigotti is one of the members of the Minor Literature[s] cargo cult. His latest book is JOLTS. Twitter: @f_sd

Music: Quarantine Hotline, by Also Known as Ariel. 

As closing act to The Quarantine Hotline (for now) some of the people that make the magazine possible meet up online for a catch up. Tune in for book recommendations, news about the magazine, or just to eavesdrop a bit.

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Kevin Mullen, Lara Alonso Corona, Eli Lee, and Fernando Sdrigotti are members of the Minor Literature[s] cargo cult.

Music: opening credits, Aerosilla, Charlie Egg; closing tune, Salvador, Audiodélica. Both used under Creative Commons.

For the eighteenth episode of The Quarantine Hotline Fernando Sdrigotti talks to Carolina Orloff, editor of Edinburgh-based Charco Press.

Tune in to hear them talk about Latin American literature in translation, the joys and sorrows of introducing Latin American literature to foreign audiences, the nomination of one of their books — Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's The Adventures of China Iron (translated by Fiona Mckintosh & Iona Macintyre — to the Booker Prize, among other things

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Carolina Orloff is a writer, translator, scholar on translation theory, and editor of Charco Press. She’s original from Buenos Aires and now lives in Ediumburgh.

Fernando Sdrigotti is one of the members of the Minor Literature[s] cargo cult. His latest book is JOLTS. Twitter: @f_sd

Music: opening credits, Aerosilla, Charlie Egg; closing tune, Llegan los cuerpos, Maitreya. Both songs licensed under Creative Commons and released by Planeta X.