Indirect Books

In 2022, in a Canadian bar in a tempestuous Paris, the idea for a literary journal was first given serious form. Something about writing that dislikes, distrusts, conventions in publishing; that takes chances in style and form alongside content; that does it for a Flaubertian love of the sentence above all. L’Esprit Literary Review was officially launched a few months later, in the month that marked a clean centenary from the publication of Ulyss...