Archive - Obstructive Fictions

The Rooms of Fiction

On the inside of the inside of the novel.

May 14 •

Dustin Illingworth

November 2023

The Shrinking World of Robert Walser

On the Miniaturist of Modernism

Nov 1, 2023 •

Dustin Illingworth

November 2021

The Obstructive Fictions Year of Reading (2021)

And other years, too, if we're being honest.

Nov 29, 2021 •

Dustin Illingworth

August 2021

Interview #2: Jen Craig

On language viscosity, generalizing claims, and apparently singular utterances.

Aug 9, 2021 •

Dustin Illingworth

June 2021

The Luminous Wheel

On fictions and images.

Jun 28, 2021 •

Dustin Illingworth

February 2021

Obstructive Fictions #2: Cosmos

Witold Gombrowicz's theory of relativity.

Feb 18, 2021 •

Dustin Illingworth

January 2021

Obstructive Fictions #1: Wittgenstein's Mistress

David Markson's Cartesian nightmare.

Jan 28, 2021 •

Dustin Illingworth

Interview #1: Mauro Javier Cárdenas

On deminpenteracts, algorithms, and the future of consciousness in fiction.

Jan 6, 2021 •

Dustin Illingworth

December 2020

The Anti-Realists

Toward a less filmable fiction.

Dec 31, 2020 •

Dustin Illingworth

Obstructive Fictions

A newsletter about reading.

Dec 15, 2020 •

Dustin Illingworth

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