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Yes, I Am A Destroyer

A wild and unreliable narrator—ardent, delirious, complicit, vengeful, and paranoid—she embodies a perverse and chaotic resistance. An anti-Bildungsroman in the collapsing first person, Yes, I Am A Destroyer is an unbecoming record of memory and forgetting …
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Biswamit Dwibedy

Biswamit Dwibedy was born in Odisha, India and now lives in Paris, France. He lived in Iowa City, Iowa for several years and has an MFA from Bard College, New York. He is the author of Ancient Guest (HarperCollins India), Hundred Greatest Love Songs (Penguin Random House), Hubble Gardener (Spuyten Duyvil) …
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Michelle Noteboom

Michelle Noteboom is the author of Landskips (Estepa Editions, 2021), Roadkill (Corrupt Press, 2013), The Chia Letters (Dusie Kollektiv 2009), Edging (Cracked Slab Books, 2006) which won the Heartland Poetry Prize, and Hors-cage (in French translation by Frédéric Forte, Editions de l’attente, 2010) …
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Yes, I Am A Destroyer
By Mira Mattar
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ERODE
By Biswamit Dwibedy
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The Unlikeness of Things
By Virginie Poitrasson
Translated by Michelle Noteboom

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Posted October 30, 2025

"Taking the measure of instability": An Exchange with Virginie Poitrasson and Michelle Noteboom on The Unlikeness of Things

Clarise Reichley: As I was reading and re-reading The Unlikeness of Things over the past weeks, so many of the themes unraveled across the book have been synchronistically appearing in my own life and the other texts I’m reading. In Unlikeness, the speaker’s attentiveness to things reminded me of Francis ...

Posted December 18, 2024

An Interview with Burcu Sahin and Jennifer Hayashida on Embroideries

To celebrate the poetry debut Embroideries by Burcu Sahin, translated from Swedish by Jennifer Hayashida, Litmus Press intern Dahlia Olivo interviewed Sahin and Hayashida on writing, crafting, translating and finishing the collection. Plus, some advice for young writers and translators! Read more below. ...

Posted December 03, 2024

Adnan's Voyage, War, and Exile

This is the third post in a series of engagements by Litmus authors, translators, and editors reflecting on the connection of their work to the ongoing struggle and violence, current and historical, in Palestine. Rooted in our commitment to creating and maintaining space for international exchange and dialogue, Litmus Press ...

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