ATTENTION
Press, reviews, interviews, etc.
Talk
Episode 148. Aidan Ryan, Nowhere Fast with Wesley O’Driscoll, March 24, 2025
A Dialogue Across Time and Absence, Fill To Capacity with Pat Benincasa, Ep. 97, March 5, 2025
Red Carpet Interview, Buffalo International Film Festival (I Am Here You Are Not I Love You), 11 October 2024
“Will the Real Sebastian Castillo Please Stand Up?” Shabby Doll House, October 7, 2024
"Low Fi Lit/tle Interview #3: Aidan Ryan," Tyler Burn, August 29, 2022
"An anthology of Buffalo poets," Buffalo Spree (Wendy Guild Swearingen), April 2018
"Finding Poems Everywhere: An Interview with Foundlings Magazine," Four City Yawp WAYO 104.3 FM (Albert Abonado), February 2018
News
A Nephew’s Love Letter to the Artists, the late Cindy Suffoletto and the late Andrew Topolski, NYC Winter Film Festival, January 25, 2025
Creative Writing Alumnus Publishes Interview with George Saunders, Canisius College “Under the Dome,” October 26, 2022
"Open letter to Buffalo Common Council: remove 'antiquated' open container law," WKBW, 5 March 2020
"Foundlings enters next phase with new book of art, poetry," The Buffalo News, March 14, 2018
Reviews
"Peach Picks: Organizing Isolation," The Public (Peach Mag/Rachelle Toarmino), May 3, 2017
Blurbs
I Am Here You Are Not I Love You is a rich and romantic tale of rediscovery for the author, but outright discovery for us. In prose that wanders seamlessly between deeply personal recollections and the cold reality of history, Ryan introduces the reader to his late aunt and uncle, the artists Cindy Suffoletto and Andrew Topolski, the New York art world at the end of the twentieth century, and the long overlooked artistic ferment in his native city of Buffalo. Through the story of his beloved aunt and uncle, Ryan has restored an important missing chapter of the history of American art.
—Mary Gabriel, author of Ninth Street Women, on I Am Here You Are Not I Love You
In this lovely essay at The Millions, Aidan Ryan explores his editing process, and the abandoned, unused writing that he’s accumulated and compiled into a “Miscellaneous” document over the years. Ryan shares inspiring examples of how authors write, build their worlds and the stories of their lives, and continue to draw from and tap into existing work as if dipping into a vat of bread starter. In an anecdote about playing with Legos as a child, he beautifully describes how he liked to tell stories with all of his toys and figurines, from different universes — “I was only interested in the story of everything.” This sentiment is reflected in his insights on writing and editing, but also waiting — the act of putting language aside, but still keeping it close, so that “everything remain[s] possible.”
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands on “Stet” in Longreads