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].
No books to show off; it's been a tough reading month so far, but I did get a new pair of trail runners. Saucony Peregrine Goretex—I was waiting for a sale and snapped them up as soon as I saw them. Nothing like new shoes to lift the spirits.
November 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
No books to show off; it's been a tough reading month so far, but I did get a new pair of trail runners. Saucony Peregrine Goretex—I was waiting for a sale and snapped them up as soon as I saw them. Nothing like new shoes to lift the spirits.
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Winding Up the Week #447
This week, I look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, announce Doorstoppers in December, keep up with a variety of literary anniversar…
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November 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"A nameless place – a place of nothing. There is a garden outside, but it is a garden without seasons, where nobody walks, where no one listens to the sound of birds."
In a nameless place: some notes on reading Anna Kavan’s Asylum Piece — Anna Evans minorliteratures.com/2025/11/13/i...
In a nameless place: some notes on reading Anna Kavan’s Asylum Piece — Anna Evans minorliteratures.com/2025/11/13/i...
In a nameless place: some notes on reading Anna Kavan’s Asylum Piece — Anna Evans
It was the woolgathering, of course, the preoccupation with non-human things, the interest in the wrong place… What I think of is fragments dispersed by the wind and left behind. A word that conjur…
minorliteratures.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 AM
"A nameless place – a place of nothing. There is a garden outside, but it is a garden without seasons, where nobody walks, where no one listens to the sound of birds."
In a nameless place: some notes on reading Anna Kavan’s Asylum Piece — Anna Evans minorliteratures.com/2025/11/13/i...
In a nameless place: some notes on reading Anna Kavan’s Asylum Piece — Anna Evans minorliteratures.com/2025/11/13/i...
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"This still and unspoken time is one I recognise, the shifting boundaries between realms of sleep and waking, the edges of oblivion. She writes: ‘My thoughts have become strands of weed, of no special colour, slowly undulating in colourless water.’"
—Anna Evans, soaks in the work of Ana Kavan
—Anna Evans, soaks in the work of Ana Kavan
In A Nameless Place: Some Notes on Reading Anna Kavan’s Asylum Piece — Anna Evans
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In a nameless place: some notes on reading Anna Kavan’s Asylum Piece — Anna Evans
It was the woolgathering, of course, the preoccupation with non-human things, the interest in the wrong place… What I think of is fragments dispersed by the wind and left behind. A word that conjur…
minorliteratures.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"This still and unspoken time is one I recognise, the shifting boundaries between realms of sleep and waking, the edges of oblivion. She writes: ‘My thoughts have become strands of weed, of no special colour, slowly undulating in colourless water.’"
—Anna Evans, soaks in the work of Ana Kavan
—Anna Evans, soaks in the work of Ana Kavan
"Kavan feels like a writer for those times of absence, when everything falls away. I am insubstantial."
Anna Evans reflects on Ana Kavan's Asylum Piece
In a nameless place: some notes on reading Anna Kavan’s Asylum Piece — Anna Evans minorliteratures.com/2025/11/13/i...
Anna Evans reflects on Ana Kavan's Asylum Piece
In a nameless place: some notes on reading Anna Kavan’s Asylum Piece — Anna Evans minorliteratures.com/2025/11/13/i...
In a nameless place: some notes on reading Anna Kavan’s Asylum Piece — Anna Evans
It was the woolgathering, of course, the preoccupation with non-human things, the interest in the wrong place… What I think of is fragments dispersed by the wind and left behind. A word that conjur…
minorliteratures.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
"Kavan feels like a writer for those times of absence, when everything falls away. I am insubstantial."
Anna Evans reflects on Ana Kavan's Asylum Piece
In a nameless place: some notes on reading Anna Kavan’s Asylum Piece — Anna Evans minorliteratures.com/2025/11/13/i...
Anna Evans reflects on Ana Kavan's Asylum Piece
In a nameless place: some notes on reading Anna Kavan’s Asylum Piece — Anna Evans minorliteratures.com/2025/11/13/i...
Experimental poetry from Azerbaijan! How cool is that?
Attention Span — Elnura Huseynova minorliteratures.com/2025/11/11/a...
Attention Span — Elnura Huseynova minorliteratures.com/2025/11/11/a...
Attention Span — Elnura Huseynova
stay for a moment hey november as slipping through your fingers but moving on movement tilts a stroke of time moving as it is one after another which blows statues as if immune to others for you ha…
minorliteratures.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Experimental poetry from Azerbaijan! How cool is that?
Attention Span — Elnura Huseynova minorliteratures.com/2025/11/11/a...
Attention Span — Elnura Huseynova minorliteratures.com/2025/11/11/a...
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Some #IcelandicLit for you as we head into the cold, dark days of winter! 😎🇮🇸📚
ICYMI I wrote about the first book of the Trilogy About the Boy, now available in North America from @biblioasis.bsky.social The second book The Sorrow of Angels is out now!
“How many years fit into one day?” Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...
“How many years fit into one day?” Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...
“How many years fit into one day?” Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
The sea on one side, steep and lofty mountains on the other; that’s our whole story in fact. The authorities, merchants, might rule our destitute days, but the mountains and the sea rule life, they…
roughghosts.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Some #IcelandicLit for you as we head into the cold, dark days of winter! 😎🇮🇸📚
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“How many years fit into one day?”
Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...
#BookReview by @roughghosts.bsky.social
#Translation #Biblioasis
Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...
#BookReview by @roughghosts.bsky.social
#Translation #Biblioasis
“How many years fit into one day?” Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
The sea on one side, steep and lofty mountains on the other; that’s our whole story in fact. The authorities, merchants, might rule our destitute days, but the mountains and the sea rule life, they…
roughghosts.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
“How many years fit into one day?”
Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...
#BookReview by @roughghosts.bsky.social
#Translation #Biblioasis
Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...
#BookReview by @roughghosts.bsky.social
#Translation #Biblioasis
ICYMI I wrote about the first book of the Trilogy About the Boy, now available in North America from @biblioasis.bsky.social The second book The Sorrow of Angels is out now!
“How many years fit into one day?” Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...
“How many years fit into one day?” Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...
“How many years fit into one day?” Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
The sea on one side, steep and lofty mountains on the other; that’s our whole story in fact. The authorities, merchants, might rule our destitute days, but the mountains and the sea rule life, they…
roughghosts.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
ICYMI I wrote about the first book of the Trilogy About the Boy, now available in North America from @biblioasis.bsky.social The second book The Sorrow of Angels is out now!
“How many years fit into one day?” Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...
“How many years fit into one day?” Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...
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“How many years fit into one day?” Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, tr. by Philip Roughton @biblioasis.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...
roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...
“How many years fit into one day?” Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
The sea on one side, steep and lofty mountains on the other; that’s our whole story in fact. The authorities, merchants, might rule our destitute days, but the mountains and the sea rule life, they…
roughghosts.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:19 AM
“How many years fit into one day?” Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, tr. by Philip Roughton @biblioasis.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...
roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...
“How many years fit into one day?” Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, tr. by Philip Roughton @biblioasis.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...
roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...
“How many years fit into one day?” Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
The sea on one side, steep and lofty mountains on the other; that’s our whole story in fact. The authorities, merchants, might rule our destitute days, but the mountains and the sea rule life, they…
roughghosts.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:19 AM
“How many years fit into one day?” Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, tr. by Philip Roughton @biblioasis.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...
roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...
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"In the chipped rearview mirror whose corroded edges were covered with grease, the small unobstructed circle in the center framed the passenger’s face when Fabo looked from a certain angle."
– Nebojša Lujanović, tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social
– Nebojša Lujanović, tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social
Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social )
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Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. Ena Selimović)
There was nothing new in Fabo’s story about the car. He always launched into it by tightening and slackening his grip around the steering wheel with its treasured leather cover. Aaaay, those Bosnia…
minorliteratures.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM
"In the chipped rearview mirror whose corroded edges were covered with grease, the small unobstructed circle in the center framed the passenger’s face when Fabo looked from a certain angle."
– Nebojša Lujanović, tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social
– Nebojša Lujanović, tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social
Congratulations! Great book!
C. D. Rose has won this year’s Goldsmiths Prize for his novel, We Live Here Now.
C.D. Rose has won the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize.
C. D. Rose has won this year’s Goldsmiths Prize for his novel We Live Here Now. Described in the press copy as “DeLillo meets Kafka,” the novel sounds absolutely wild—as befits a …
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November 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Congratulations! Great book!
"In the chipped rearview mirror whose corroded edges were covered with grease, the small unobstructed circle in the center framed the passenger’s face when Fabo looked from a certain angle."
– Nebojša Lujanović, tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social
– Nebojša Lujanović, tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social
Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social )
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/c...
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/c...
Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. Ena Selimović)
There was nothing new in Fabo’s story about the car. He always launched into it by tightening and slackening his grip around the steering wheel with its treasured leather cover. Aaaay, those Bosnia…
minorliteratures.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM
"In the chipped rearview mirror whose corroded edges were covered with grease, the small unobstructed circle in the center framed the passenger’s face when Fabo looked from a certain angle."
– Nebojša Lujanović, tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social
– Nebojša Lujanović, tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social
Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. Ena Selimović) minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/c...
Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. Ena Selimović)
There was nothing new in Fabo’s story about the car. He always launched into it by tightening and slackening his grip around the steering wheel with its treasured leather cover. Aaaay, those Bosnia…
minorliteratures.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. Ena Selimović) minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/c...
“It’s not just that the far right is reactionary, that it reacts to something, but it’s a preventive counter-revolution”: An Interview with Jack Z. Bratich — Daniel Lukes minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/i...
“It’s not just that the far right is reactionary, that it reacts to something, but it’s a preventive counter-revolution”: An Interview with Jack Z. Bratich — Daniel Lukes
As pundits scramble to define fascism for Trump 2.0, a recent book by media scholar Jack Z. Bratich, investigating the theme of “microfascism,” may come in handy. The term, coined by Gilles Deleuze…
minorliteratures.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
“It’s not just that the far right is reactionary, that it reacts to something, but it’s a preventive counter-revolution”: An Interview with Jack Z. Bratich — Daniel Lukes minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/i...
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ALSO! Monthly Dispatch #28 — feat. everything we published in October & more — went out ...
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Monthly Dispatch #28 — October 2025
A letter from the editor[s]
minorlits.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:38 AM
ALSO! Monthly Dispatch #28 — feat. everything we published in October & more — went out ...
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Books finished in October.
November 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Books finished in October.
ICYMI, I wrote about this excellent collection of short stories by an important Slovak writer, now available in English from @karolinumpress.cuni.cz @juliasherwood.bsky.social
“Pain is a privilege of the living.” The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola roughghosts.com/2025/10/30/p...
“Pain is a privilege of the living.” The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola roughghosts.com/2025/10/30/p...
“Pain is a privilege of the living.” The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola
One day, a hundred thousand years ago, during the Ice Age or soon after, when the world began to melt from below, an iceberg must have carved out this valley, with its body dragging its tail behind…
roughghosts.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
ICYMI, I wrote about this excellent collection of short stories by an important Slovak writer, now available in English from @karolinumpress.cuni.cz @juliasherwood.bsky.social
“Pain is a privilege of the living.” The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola roughghosts.com/2025/10/30/p...
“Pain is a privilege of the living.” The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola roughghosts.com/2025/10/30/p...
Reposted by Joseph Schreiber
Here are the key events from day 1,345 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,345
Here are the key events from day 1,345 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Here are the key events from day 1,345 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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"In Syros, you struggled to separate your fantasy of Greece from the Greece around you. Pink dawns, laundry on balconies, and exhaust fumes wrestled with Styx, Lethe, coins on cold tongues."
— @dluntz.bsky.social
— @dluntz.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"In Syros, you struggled to separate your fantasy of Greece from the Greece around you. Pink dawns, laundry on balconies, and exhaust fumes wrestled with Styx, Lethe, coins on cold tongues."
— @dluntz.bsky.social
— @dluntz.bsky.social
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"It’s not that I fail. It’s that this is what succeeding now looks like
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I Am Afraid to Die
minor beef[s] is a new feature where you can express your literary gripes, complaints and pet hates … Is there a writer you despise who is getting too much praise? a lauded critic whose opinio…
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October 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"It’s not that I fail. It’s that this is what succeeding now looks like
..."
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“Pain is a privilege of the living.” The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola, tr. by Julia and Peter Sherwood @karolinumpress.cuni.cz @juliasherwood.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2025/10/30/p...
roughghosts.com/2025/10/30/p...
“Pain is a privilege of the living.” The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola
One day, a hundred thousand years ago, during the Ice Age or soon after, when the world began to melt from below, an iceberg must have carved out this valley, with its body dragging its tail behind…
roughghosts.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
“Pain is a privilege of the living.” The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola, tr. by Julia and Peter Sherwood @karolinumpress.cuni.cz @juliasherwood.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2025/10/30/p...
roughghosts.com/2025/10/30/p...
"I’d show you my modest library, a playhouse fantasy fitting in as a poor substitute for the lost sanctuary of my youth. Or maybe it’s more than that."
The Sentimental Monster — Mikra Namani minorliteratures.com/2025/10/30/t...
The Sentimental Monster — Mikra Namani minorliteratures.com/2025/10/30/t...
The Sentimental Monster — Mikra Namani
“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind…” Dear Mother, I am often reminded of King Solomon’s proverb whenever I think of the history and trajectory of our family, our lives, and all…
minorliteratures.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"I’d show you my modest library, a playhouse fantasy fitting in as a poor substitute for the lost sanctuary of my youth. Or maybe it’s more than that."
The Sentimental Monster — Mikra Namani minorliteratures.com/2025/10/30/t...
The Sentimental Monster — Mikra Namani minorliteratures.com/2025/10/30/t...
“Pain is a privilege of the living.” The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola, tr. by Julia and Peter Sherwood @karolinumpress.cuni.cz @juliasherwood.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2025/10/30/p...
roughghosts.com/2025/10/30/p...
“Pain is a privilege of the living.” The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola
One day, a hundred thousand years ago, during the Ice Age or soon after, when the world began to melt from below, an iceberg must have carved out this valley, with its body dragging its tail behind…
roughghosts.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
“Pain is a privilege of the living.” The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola, tr. by Julia and Peter Sherwood @karolinumpress.cuni.cz @juliasherwood.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2025/10/30/p...
roughghosts.com/2025/10/30/p...