Sometimes we can’t bear being close. We battle for the last word, want never again to have to listen, nor to tolerate contradiction, yet the things we fight about have made us pivotal to each other. Were we ever to end, we would lose a mirror. @minorliteratures.bsky.social

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Monthly Dispatch #34—ft. @richardacarter.bsky.social Jenna Pfeifer @zurajishkariani.bsky.social Daniel Elkind @crawjill.bsky.social @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social @joshuatrentbrown.com @susannacrossman.bsky.social @stuhennigan.bsky.social Revue Transat'

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ICYMI — last week @MinorLits ...

— @crawjill.bsky.social on a star-crossed Northern Ireland/north of Ireland love story

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— new fiction from @zurajishkariani.bsky.social

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The other night at an event, my cunning friend kept enticing people to read my essay on love and N. Ireland by telling them it was about sex. . .
@MinorLits

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"This relationship is causing us to grapple with questions and burdens that belong to us and don’t ... We are attempting to decipher a puzzle that’s perhaps unsolvable ..."

Who Among Us? — @crawjill.bsky.social

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Thank you @crawjill.bsky.social for this beautifully jarring version of all the things:

“Who among us will relinquish false certainty & exclusive righteousness to allow each other to exist unencumbered and even to thrive? Is justice possible? I hope so, fear not. It would have to be for everyone…”

I wrote about my experience of love—where intimacy has grown to feel unexpectedly political—and about parts of the N. Ireland I know. The binaries are more unstable than so often depicted. We're still in flux. I'd say the most personal and challenging piece I've written:

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Magic work by Darran here.

Darran Anderson reflects on the work of the great Dennis Potter, an artist who saw the potential of television as medium, and a working class writer so "imaginative in the ways he defied containment"

How #DennisPotter’s TV Plays Were Guides to the Purgatory of the Modern Age

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A powerful new story about damage, abjection and the erotic in n+1 by @crawjill.bsky.social who’s slowly building an impressive archive of meticulous and disturbing short fiction with the magazine. Link to the story here: www.nplusonemag.com/authors/craw...

The Winter 2025 issue of n+1, RERUN, is online now!

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n+1 turned 20 this year, and we’re entering our third decade with plenty of dynamism, energy, and persistent commitment to justice and weirdness. But things are bad out there and we need your help. Subscribe and help us get to middle age and beyond! nplusonemag.com/subscribe/?affid=bsky

In fiction, three stories about process and abjection (2/3 of which are also about online dating). In @crawjill.bsky.social’s typically sharp “Mill Rock,” a former actress from Ireland finds herself in a complicated polycrisis with an all-American couple. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/fic...

Announcing n+1’s Winter 2025 issue: RERUN! Featuring new writing by:

@hzeavin.bsky.social
@njdames.bsky.social
Rachel Khong
@tavlin.bsky.social
Mina Tavakoli
Dawn Lundy Martin
Bassem Saad
Jill Crawford
Alan Dean
Claire Baglin, and
@markkrotov.bsky.social

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