Joseph Schreiber
@roughghosts.bsky.social
Reader, writer, editor, lonely wanderer. Based in Calgary, Canada. Write about books at www.roughghosts.com Essays Editor at Minor Literature[s].
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December 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Last days! Get to it 👀
ICYMI I wrote about this classic Icelandic novella, originally written in Danish. A perfect midwinter tale. Translated by Philip Roughton.
“Here he walked. He walked here.” Advent by Gunnar Gunnarsson roughghosts.com/2025/12/26/h...
“Here he walked. He walked here.” Advent by Gunnar Gunnarsson roughghosts.com/2025/12/26/h...
“Here he walked. He walked here.” Advent by Gunnar Gunnarsson
He walked so well here. The snow-covered mountains seemed so low and distant in the moonlight, and here and there touches of starlight glittered against the glossy-black nighttime ice. Such a walk …
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December 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
ICYMI I wrote about this classic Icelandic novella, originally written in Danish. A perfect midwinter tale. Translated by Philip Roughton.
“Here he walked. He walked here.” Advent by Gunnar Gunnarsson roughghosts.com/2025/12/26/h...
“Here he walked. He walked here.” Advent by Gunnar Gunnarsson roughghosts.com/2025/12/26/h...
Looking for nonfiction. Critical and lyrical essays, collaborative projects, cross genre works, and the incorporation of original art or photographs all welcome.
about a week left to send us your fiction, essays, and experimental texts ...
details here:
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December 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Looking for nonfiction. Critical and lyrical essays, collaborative projects, cross genre works, and the incorporation of original art or photographs all welcome.
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“Here he walked. He walked here.” Advent by Gunnar Gunnarsson, translated by Philip Roughton roughghosts.com/2025/12/26/h...
“Here he walked. He walked here.” Advent by Gunnar Gunnarsson
He walked so well here. The snow-covered mountains seemed so low and distant in the moonlight, and here and there touches of starlight glittered against the glossy-black nighttime ice. Such a walk …
roughghosts.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
“Here he walked. He walked here.” Advent by Gunnar Gunnarsson, translated by Philip Roughton roughghosts.com/2025/12/26/h...
“Here he walked. He walked here.” Advent by Gunnar Gunnarsson, translated by Philip Roughton roughghosts.com/2025/12/26/h...
“Here he walked. He walked here.” Advent by Gunnar Gunnarsson
He walked so well here. The snow-covered mountains seemed so low and distant in the moonlight, and here and there touches of starlight glittered against the glossy-black nighttime ice. Such a walk …
roughghosts.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
“Here he walked. He walked here.” Advent by Gunnar Gunnarsson, translated by Philip Roughton roughghosts.com/2025/12/26/h...
Arrived late last week, this iconic work of Czech literature, The Grandmother by Božena Němcová. Originally published in 1855, now out in Susan Reynolds' translation from @jantarbooks.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Arrived late last week, this iconic work of Czech literature, The Grandmother by Božena Němcová. Originally published in 1855, now out in Susan Reynolds' translation from @jantarbooks.bsky.social
ICYMI I wrote about this intoxicating project of collaborative poetic translation and mistranslation. @sarabandebooks.bsky.social
Exercises in poetic alchemy: Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen (and friends) roughghosts.com/2025/12/19/e...
Exercises in poetic alchemy: Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen (and friends) roughghosts.com/2025/12/19/e...
Exercises in poetic alchemy: Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen (and friends)
When it comes to the art of literary translation, there are many elements and nuances to which the translator must attend, and in this regard, poetry offers a particularly slippery substrate. If a …
roughghosts.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
ICYMI I wrote about this intoxicating project of collaborative poetic translation and mistranslation. @sarabandebooks.bsky.social
Exercises in poetic alchemy: Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen (and friends) roughghosts.com/2025/12/19/e...
Exercises in poetic alchemy: Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen (and friends) roughghosts.com/2025/12/19/e...
The holiday season is here. A perfect time to put the finishing touches on that essay or nonfiction piece you've been wanting to send to Minor Literature[s]!
Details below.
@minorliteratures.bsky.social
Details below.
@minorliteratures.bsky.social
that's it for 2025 ...
don't forget we're open for submissions until the end of the month ...
details here:
oleada.io/publication/...
don't forget we're open for submissions until the end of the month ...
details here:
oleada.io/publication/...
Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
oleada.io
December 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The holiday season is here. A perfect time to put the finishing touches on that essay or nonfiction piece you've been wanting to send to Minor Literature[s]!
Details below.
@minorliteratures.bsky.social
Details below.
@minorliteratures.bsky.social
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Reposted by Joseph Schreiber
Exercises in poetic alchemy: Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen (and friends) @sarabandebooks.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2025/12/19/e...
roughghosts.com/2025/12/19/e...
Exercises in poetic alchemy: Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen (and friends)
When it comes to the art of literary translation, there are many elements and nuances to which the translator must attend, and in this regard, poetry offers a particularly slippery substrate. If a …
roughghosts.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Exercises in poetic alchemy: Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen (and friends) @sarabandebooks.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2025/12/19/e...
roughghosts.com/2025/12/19/e...
Exercises in poetic alchemy: Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen (and friends) @sarabandebooks.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2025/12/19/e...
roughghosts.com/2025/12/19/e...
Exercises in poetic alchemy: Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen (and friends)
When it comes to the art of literary translation, there are many elements and nuances to which the translator must attend, and in this regard, poetry offers a particularly slippery substrate. If a …
roughghosts.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Exercises in poetic alchemy: Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen (and friends) @sarabandebooks.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2025/12/19/e...
roughghosts.com/2025/12/19/e...
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Monthly Dispatch #30 — December 2025
A letter from the editor[s]
minorlits.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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that'll be it for 2025, but we will stay open for submissions throughout December ...
all details here:
oleada.io/publication/...
all details here:
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Oleada - A Submission Platform
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December 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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And ...
Monthly Dispatch #30 — ft. @rjdent.bsky.social @matthewkinlin.bsky.social Jen Adams @robmunb.bsky.social @kirstenmosher.bsky.social Gerhard Rühm tr. @wordkunst.bsky.social @lucykulwiec.bsky.social & more — goes out tomorrow ...
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Monthly Dispatch #30 — ft. @rjdent.bsky.social @matthewkinlin.bsky.social Jen Adams @robmunb.bsky.social @kirstenmosher.bsky.social Gerhard Rühm tr. @wordkunst.bsky.social @lucykulwiec.bsky.social & more — goes out tomorrow ...
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December 14, 2025 at 10:43 AM
And ...
Monthly Dispatch #30 — ft. @rjdent.bsky.social @matthewkinlin.bsky.social Jen Adams @robmunb.bsky.social @kirstenmosher.bsky.social Gerhard Rühm tr. @wordkunst.bsky.social @lucykulwiec.bsky.social & more — goes out tomorrow ...
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Monthly Dispatch #30 — ft. @rjdent.bsky.social @matthewkinlin.bsky.social Jen Adams @robmunb.bsky.social @kirstenmosher.bsky.social Gerhard Rühm tr. @wordkunst.bsky.social @lucykulwiec.bsky.social & more — goes out tomorrow ...
sign up here:
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Reposted by Joseph Schreiber
that'll be it for 2025, but we will stay open for submissions throughout December ...
all details here:
oleada.io/publication/...
all details here:
oleada.io/publication/...
Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
oleada.io
December 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
that'll be it for 2025, but we will stay open for submissions throughout December ...
all details here:
oleada.io/publication/...
all details here:
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anandimi.substack.com/p/winter-doe...
wrote about the rather tepid Scandinavian winter we've been having here so far and the general malaise around the ways in climate change has taken over my daily musings. is this what they call solastalgia?
wrote about the rather tepid Scandinavian winter we've been having here so far and the general malaise around the ways in climate change has taken over my daily musings. is this what they call solastalgia?
winter doesn't exist
the absence of winters, shift in climate cycles - a solastalgia for ways we once knew
anandimi.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
anandimi.substack.com/p/winter-doe...
wrote about the rather tepid Scandinavian winter we've been having here so far and the general malaise around the ways in climate change has taken over my daily musings. is this what they call solastalgia?
wrote about the rather tepid Scandinavian winter we've been having here so far and the general malaise around the ways in climate change has taken over my daily musings. is this what they call solastalgia?
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"There are over three thousand species of mosquito. One species of human. Melinda is an ancient, Australian strain of bitch. Arms piped to bone from daily swims. Thin as pincers. Venomous, morose
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Bitten — @lucykulwiec.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/12/11/b...
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Bitten — @lucykulwiec.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/12/11/b...
Bitten — Lucy A. Kulwieć
There are over three thousand species of mosquito. One species of human. Melinda is an ancient, Australian strain of bitch. Arms piped to bone from daily swims. Thin as pincers. Venomous, morose. O…
minorliteratures.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"There are over three thousand species of mosquito. One species of human. Melinda is an ancient, Australian strain of bitch. Arms piped to bone from daily swims. Thin as pincers. Venomous, morose
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Bitten — @lucykulwiec.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/12/11/b...
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Bitten — @lucykulwiec.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2025/12/11/b...
Bitten — Lucy A. Kulwieć minorliteratures.com/2025/12/11/b...
Bitten — Lucy A. Kulwieć
There are over three thousand species of mosquito. One species of human. Melinda is an ancient, Australian strain of bitch. Arms piped to bone from daily swims. Thin as pincers. Venomous, morose. O…
minorliteratures.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Bitten — Lucy A. Kulwieć minorliteratures.com/2025/12/11/b...
Don't miss "time poem" from Gerhard Rühm's The Folded Clock, translated by @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social
The Folded Clock — Gerhard Rühm (tr. Alexander Booth) minorliteratures.com/2025/12/10/t...
The Folded Clock — Gerhard Rühm (tr. Alexander Booth) minorliteratures.com/2025/12/10/t...
The Folded Clock — Gerhard Rühm (tr. Alexander Booth)
time poem a note on recitationrecited in real time, the “time poem” would take an entire year: were you to begin on january 1st, you would recite only a single line a day until december 31st, then,…
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December 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Don't miss "time poem" from Gerhard Rühm's The Folded Clock, translated by @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social
The Folded Clock — Gerhard Rühm (tr. Alexander Booth) minorliteratures.com/2025/12/10/t...
The Folded Clock — Gerhard Rühm (tr. Alexander Booth) minorliteratures.com/2025/12/10/t...
"THE OCEAN IS UPHOLSTERY, a couch. Its velvet pile turns aquamarine as the wind brushes against it. Pillows tossed atop an expanse of fabric, ripple and swell disappearing into an overcast horizon. "
80° from Here — Kirsten Mosher minorliteratures.com/2025/12/09/1...
80° from Here — Kirsten Mosher minorliteratures.com/2025/12/09/1...
180° from Here — Kirsten Mosher
THE OCEAN IS WOOD. We ride sun-drenched orange and yellow waves. Swim in-line along the grain. Knots redirect currents. Time passes in rings. We reach nautical miles by tonguing and grooving. Intox…
minorliteratures.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"THE OCEAN IS UPHOLSTERY, a couch. Its velvet pile turns aquamarine as the wind brushes against it. Pillows tossed atop an expanse of fabric, ripple and swell disappearing into an overcast horizon. "
80° from Here — Kirsten Mosher minorliteratures.com/2025/12/09/1...
80° from Here — Kirsten Mosher minorliteratures.com/2025/12/09/1...
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This link will take you to the @minorliteratures.bsky.social portal for our winter 2025 nonfiction submission window. There's room in there for you to submit your strange, wonderful, original essays. Open for the month of December.
oleada.io/publication/...
oleada.io/publication/...
Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
oleada.io
December 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This link will take you to the @minorliteratures.bsky.social portal for our winter 2025 nonfiction submission window. There's room in there for you to submit your strange, wonderful, original essays. Open for the month of December.
oleada.io/publication/...
oleada.io/publication/...
This link will take you to the @minorliteratures.bsky.social portal for our winter 2025 nonfiction submission window. There's room in there for you to submit your strange, wonderful, original essays. Open for the month of December.
oleada.io/publication/...
oleada.io/publication/...
Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
oleada.io
December 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This link will take you to the @minorliteratures.bsky.social portal for our winter 2025 nonfiction submission window. There's room in there for you to submit your strange, wonderful, original essays. Open for the month of December.
oleada.io/publication/...
oleada.io/publication/...
Canadian-born architect Frank Ghery has died. My only encounter with his surreal designs was the UTS Business School in Sydney, Australia. Known as the "paper bag" building it demanded I capture it with a fish eye lens!
RIP.
RIP.
December 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Canadian-born architect Frank Ghery has died. My only encounter with his surreal designs was the UTS Business School in Sydney, Australia. Known as the "paper bag" building it demanded I capture it with a fish eye lens!
RIP.
RIP.
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“I, to the soft engreening of the universe, accede.”
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — @robmunb.bsky.social
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — @robmunb.bsky.social
Machado Version 1 [Retrato] — Robin Munby
On pilgrimage of celebrants there I clamber and Heavenways,on the uplift carried surgeward vertexing to cumuloskies;my laddering, stepto highto and reaching for Paradise;my fallingly, inchasmic and…
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December 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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