“To undo some of our graphomania’s mutual traps of extremism and anxiety might just need a change in emphasis – a proliferation of small-scale writing that … is tonally unsure, based in uncertainty, in the quizzical and delightedly ambiguous. And if this kind of writing can’t algorithmically flourish via the platforms of social media then perhaps it needs a corresponding change in distribution, for example the zines and miniature books put out by new publishers including Nieves and isolarii, Prototype and Book Works. Or the gentler media of newsletters and mailouts.”
Adam Thirlwell