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Joseph Schreiber

@roughghosts.bsky.social
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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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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 2h
Our September Monthly Dispatch has been dispatched. Read it and subscribe here: minor literature[s] minorlits.substack.com?r=517vo&utm_...
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
today @ minor lits ... “I think of my writing as European rather than English, or Danish for that matter”: An Interview with Denise Rose Hansen — Cristina Politano ( @dorothyproject.bsky.social ) minorliteratures.com/2026/09/29/i...
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“I think of my writing as European rather than English, or Danish for that matter”: An Interview with Denise Rose Hansen — Cristina Politano
Denise Rose Hansen is a London-based Danish writer, editor, and founder of the independent press Lolli Editions. Her recent novel, Blue Sunset, is forthcoming from the Dorothy Project. The novel gi…
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Grief is the unnameable thing that moves just beneath the surface throughout." "I think of my writing as European rather than English, or Danish for that matter": An Interview with Denise Rose Hansen — Cristina Politano minorliteratures.com/2026/09/29/i...
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“I think of my writing as European rather than English, or Danish for that matter”: An Interview with Denise Rose Hansen — Cristina Politano
Denise Rose Hansen is a London-based Danish writer, editor, and founder of the independent press Lolli Editions. Her recent novel, Blue Sunset, is forthcoming from the Dorothy Project. The novel gi…
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I might have gotten a deal on a few books. To be fair, one I have already read as an ARC—On Transit—but I've always wanted a finished copy. Loved it.
Stack of books From top: Distant Transit by Maja Haderlap, Message from the Shadows by Antonio Tabucchi, We Would Have Told Each Other Everything by Judith Hermann, The Dispossessed by Szilárd Borbély, Poems New and Collected by Wisława Szymborska, and Wild Swim by Dorthe Nors
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Ultraviolet Catastrophe — Susan Finlay minorliteratures.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The Ultraviolet Catastrophe — Susan Finlay
But even though Hugh’s desire to flee his WG meant that he arrived at the Vibe Check a full 20 minutes earlier than expected, his many, more dedicated-to-the-cult-of-Ramesses colleagues were earlie…
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Orgart — Dragan Aleksić [tr. David Vichnar] minorliteratures.com/2026/09/23/o...
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Orgart — Dragan Aleksić [tr. David Vichnar]
Introduction — David Vichnar Dragan Aleksić’s year in Prague (1920–21) is one of those compressed episodes in avantgarde history where several circuits suddenly touch & spark.† Arriving in Octo…
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Special arrival from Calcutta—the 26-27 Seagull catalogue filled with poetry, extracts, and art. and a recent release from their Czech List.
Two books: The Silent Years by Alena Mornštajnová and a narrow bright yellow volume with "Seagull Books" in gold lettering.Two page spread from Seagull Catalogue featuring text of a poem against a painting of a tree with autumn coloured leaves.
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Black Herald Press @blackheraldpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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We cannot respond to every submission we receive, but if you have not heard from us within two months, please feel free to submit elsewhere.
Please do not send us any review copies.

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Nous ne pouvons répondre à toutes les propositions que nous recevons, mais si vous n’avez pas eu de nos nouvelles dans les deux mois qui suivent, n’hésitez pas à proposer vos textes ailleurs.
Merci de ne pas nous faire parvenir d’ouvrages en service de presse.
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Bobs texts me again. I look ... He sends me a picture of his sweaty nipple. It is at first underwhelming, but then I get angry. The male nipple, as a communicative gesture, feels lazy. I don’t reply ..." Penguins — @lucykulwiec.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/09/22/p...
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Penguins — Lucy A. Kulwieć
The chair on the flat roof has created an indent on the melting tarmac during the heatwave. The chair is sinking. I sit on the chair and read most weekday evenings. We are sinking: me, the book, th…
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"She is wearing a papier-mâché style shark fin attached to her back. As I get closer, a t-shirt saying ‘Live, Love, Penguins’." — Lucy A. Kulwieć Penguins — Lucy A. Kulwieć minorliteratures.com/2026/09/22/p...
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Penguins — Lucy A. Kulwieć
The chair on the flat roof has created an indent on the melting tarmac during the heatwave. The chair is sinking. I sit on the chair and read most weekday evenings. We are sinking: me, the book, th…
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Mountain ash (rowan) berry triptych:
Tight cluster of bright red berries, green leaves with blue sky and other branches in distance.Multiple large clusters of red berries.Focus on single cluster of red berries with green leaves and grass in background.
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ICYMI I wrote about this charming reflection on the relationship between an author and his publisher. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social “We laugh, and I truly believe that we genuinely like each other.”: Jérôme Lindon by Jean Echenoz roughghosts.com/2026/09/18/w...
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“We laugh, and I truly believe that we genuinely like each other.”: Jérôme Lindon by Jean Echenoz
Jean Echenoz opens his tribute to his longtime editor and publisher, with an account that many other hopeful, and perhaps naïve, would-be authors might know well.  It is 1979, he has just turn…
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“We laugh, and I truly believe that we genuinely like each other.”: Jérôme Lindon by Jean Echenoz @archipelagobooks.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/09/18/w...
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“We laugh, and I truly believe that we genuinely like each other.”: Jérôme Lindon by Jean Echenoz
Jean Echenoz opens his tribute to his longtime editor and publisher, with an account that many other hopeful, and perhaps naïve, would-be authors might know well.  It is 1979, he has just turn…
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“We laugh, and I truly believe that we genuinely like each other.”: Jérôme Lindon by Jean Echenoz @archipelagobooks.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/09/18/w...
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“We laugh, and I truly believe that we genuinely like each other.”: Jérôme Lindon by Jean Echenoz
Jean Echenoz opens his tribute to his longtime editor and publisher, with an account that many other hopeful, and perhaps naïve, would-be authors might know well.  It is 1979, he has just turn…
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"The relic ceases to be an inert accessory; it becomes an extension of the body itself, a surrogate skin. The kept object acts as both a lock and a raw nerve ..." — @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/09/17/t...
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The Kept Hour: A Minor Study — Christina Tudor-Sideri
I. To hold the relic is to hold a small, silver cylinder of contained space. Suspended from a coiled rope chain, the object rests against the skin, rising and falling with my breath. A pendant that…
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"To choose a word is to trace the invisible pattern of rain falling over a dark sea; to capture a single drop before it is swallowed by the tide." Today, a luminous essay by @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social The Kept Hour: A Minor Study — Christina Tudor-Sideri minorliteratures.com/2026/09/17/t...
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The Kept Hour: A Minor Study — Christina Tudor-Sideri
I. To hold the relic is to hold a small, silver cylinder of contained space. Suspended from a coiled rope chain, the object rests against the skin, rising and falling with my breath. A pendant that…
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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On what the word holds; on what holds the word. The Kept Hour, a short collection of fragments toward my forthcoming book, Reliquary, is now out with @minorliteratures.bsky.social My gratitude to @roughghosts.bsky.social and @erratumpress.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/09/17/t...
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The Kept Hour: A Minor Study — Christina Tudor-Sideri
I. To hold the relic is to hold a small, silver cylinder of contained space. Suspended from a coiled rope chain, the object rests against the skin, rising and falling with my breath. A pendant that…
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"How does one compress a season of grief, a sudden surge of desire, a lingering state of anxiety, or the span of the impossible into a single sequence of letters?" @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Kept Hour: A Minor Study — Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/09/17/t...
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The Kept Hour: A Minor Study — Christina Tudor-Sideri
I. To hold the relic is to hold a small, silver cylinder of contained space. Suspended from a coiled rope chain, the object rests against the skin, rising and falling with my breath. A pendant that…
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ICYMI I wrote about this phenomenal new anthology of Hungarian women poets, edited by @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social Voices that must be heard: Under a Pannonian Sky – Ten Women poets from Hungary, edited by Ottilie Mulzet roughghosts.com/2026/09/14/v...
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Voices that must be heard: Under a Pannonian Sky – Ten Women poets from Hungary, edited by Ottilie Mulzet
By the wine-press house, the road turns offto the right, I see low village roofs through the mountains, on roads burnished blue,I’m a stranger here, for I intrude no one in sight, only acacias, vin…
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Often, she does have bad dreams. She has a dream that the house is on fire and that she is the only survivor, survivor and perpetrator somehow, as though she started the fire by being afraid of fire. " The Knife — Kate Wagner minorliteratures.com/2026/09/15/t...
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The Knife — Kate Wagner
Emma is four, just old enough to stand on her tippy toes, brace herself against the door and turn the little nipple of the lock to the right, thankful that it doesn’t make a sound. Slowly she slide…
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Voices that must be heard: Under a Pannonian Sky – Ten Women poets from Hungary, edited by Ottilie Mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/09/14/v...
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Voices that must be heard: Under a Pannonian Sky – Ten Women poets from Hungary, edited by Ottilie Mulzet
By the wine-press house, the road turns offto the right, I see low village roofs through the mountains, on roads burnished blue,I’m a stranger here, for I intrude no one in sight, only acacias, vin…
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Voices that must be heard: Under a Pannonian Sky – Ten Women poets from Hungary, edited by Ottilie Mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/09/14/v...
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Voices that must be heard: Under a Pannonian Sky – Ten Women poets from Hungary, edited by Ottilie Mulzet
By the wine-press house, the road turns offto the right, I see low village roofs through the mountains, on roads burnished blue,I’m a stranger here, for I intrude no one in sight, only acacias, vin…
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
and coming up this week ... — new writing from @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social — fiction by @katewagner.wehwalt.net
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"[M]y novels...might sit slightly on the outside of things": An Interview with Adrian Duncan — Cristina Politano minorliteratures.com/2026/09/10/m...
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“[M]y novels…might sit slightly on the outside of things”: An Interview with Adrian Duncan — Cristina Politano
Adrian Duncan is a Berlin-based writer whose novels are often influenced by his upbringing in Ireland, as well as his formal education and decade of experience as an engineer. His most recent novel…
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
today @ minor lits ... “[M]y novels…might sit slightly on the outside of things”: An Interview with Adrian Duncan — Cristina Politano minorliteratures.com/2026/09/10/m...
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“[M]y novels…might sit slightly on the outside of things”: An Interview with Adrian Duncan — Cristina Politano
Adrian Duncan is a Berlin-based writer whose novels are often influenced by his upbringing in Ireland, as well as his formal education and decade of experience as an engineer. His most recent novel…
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"As a novelist, you follow the energy and you follow experiences as well, particularly formative experiences ..." An Interview with Adrian Duncan — Cristina Politano minorliteratures.com/2026/09/10/m...
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“[M]y novels…might sit slightly on the outside of things”: An Interview with Adrian Duncan — Cristina Politano
Adrian Duncan is a Berlin-based writer whose novels are often influenced by his upbringing in Ireland, as well as his formal education and decade of experience as an engineer. His most recent novel…
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Many prefer to say language has failed when their character has. Language doesn’t fail us, we fail language ..." Bastards — Nate Lippens minorliteratures.com/2026/09/08/b...
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Bastards — Nate Lippens
I’ve been using bibliomancy to start my days. I pull a book at random and open it. Patricia Highsmith’s diary from Dec. 31, 1947: “My New Year’s Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, gre…
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"The sounds of the night prick through my silence and my limbs hum. I turn from a man into an appliance. My chest tightens, a flutter spreads." Bastards — Nate Lippens minorliteratures.com/2026/09/08/b...
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Bastards — Nate Lippens
I’ve been using bibliomancy to start my days. I pull a book at random and open it. Patricia Highsmith’s diary from Dec. 31, 1947: “My New Year’s Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, gre…
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🇨🇦 l.faraday 🇨🇦 @mizati.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Full moon rising over Signal Hill National Historic Site. #Canada St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador Ray Mackey Photography Goodnight
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My #womenintranslation reading for the month of August. Two reviews still to come. Spoiler alert! Under a Pannonian Sky is a brilliant anthology of Hungarian poetry. @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ten years ago around this date, one of the best friends I ever had took her own life. It was just over a month after I lost both of my parents. This is a piece I wrote for her with photos from my visit to her home in South Africa. sultansseal.wordpress.com/2016/11/26/j...
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Joseph Schreiber: And I Will Tell You Something
You said: I’m still here. I just don’t know what to say. But two weeks later, you were gone. And now I sit, words turned stale upon the page. Seems I’ve been here for months, rending sentences into…
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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Dream pairing! 😍
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Moody, cloudy, and cooler today. Felt good.
Cloudy sky with light almost breaking through, framed to the left and along the bottom by trees.City centre in the distance under cloudy skies. River and greenery in the foreground.Path through poplar trees, briefly lit by sun breaking through the clouds.
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
ICYMI, I wrote about this moving meditation on love and caregiving translated from the Faroese by Marita Thomsen. @transitbooks.bsky.social #WITMonth To each time its people: On the Other Side is March by Sólrún Michelsen roughghosts.com/2026/08/29/t...
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To each time its people: On the Other Side is March by Sólrún Michelsen
What is a mother? A mother is someone who puts plasters on knees and hearts. Your first cradle. Your confessional. Your ally against the world. A warm embrace. Someone who sings away trolls. Someon…
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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
👉 NOW IS THE TIME
Now Is the Time: a Manifesto for Minor Literature[s]

https://minorliteratures.com/2016/10/05/now-is-the-time-a-manifesto-for-minor-literatures-julian-hanna-and-yanina-spizzirri/
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Attention!
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
To each time its people: On the Other Side is March by Sólrún Michelsen, translated by Marita Thomsen @transitbooks.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/08/29/t...
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To each time its people: On the Other Side is March by Sólrún Michelsen
What is a mother? A mother is someone who puts plasters on knees and hearts. Your first cradle. Your confessional. Your ally against the world. A warm embrace. Someone who sings away trolls. Someon…
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
To each time its people: On the Other Side is March by Sólrún Michelsen, translated by Marita Thomsen @transitbooks.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/08/29/t...
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To each time its people: On the Other Side is March by Sólrún Michelsen
What is a mother? A mother is someone who puts plasters on knees and hearts. Your first cradle. Your confessional. Your ally against the world. A warm embrace. Someone who sings away trolls. Someon…
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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Will you spend some time behind the scenes in my new piece @exactingclam.bsky.social: www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-22... 🙏 🖤
Image used on the website with this story: a skeleton pointing a spear at a seated writer gentleman (The Dance of Death, colour lithograph by Edward Hull)
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
ICYMI, I wrote about this sharp collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Michael Favala Goldman All kinds of people, all kinds of lives, and all equally lonely: The Umbrella by Tove Ditlevsen roughghosts.com/2026/08/22/a...
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All kinds of people, all kinds of lives, and all equally lonely: The Umbrella by Tove Ditlevsen
Sharp and unsentimental, the prose of Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen crackles across the page, exposing the painful insecurities of ordinary people as they navigate the often messy experiences of lif…
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
All kinds of people, all kinds of lives, and all equally lonely: The Umbrella by Tove Ditlevsen, tr. by Michael Favala Goldman #WITMonth roughghosts.com/2026/08/22/a...
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All kinds of people, all kinds of lives, and all equally lonely: The Umbrella by Tove Ditlevsen
Sharp and unsentimental, the prose of Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen crackles across the page, exposing the painful insecurities of ordinary people as they navigate the often messy experiences of lif…
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
All kinds of people, all kinds of lives, and all equally lonely: The Umbrella by Tove Ditlevsen, tr. by Michael Favala Goldman #WITMonth roughghosts.com/2026/08/22/a...
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All kinds of people, all kinds of lives, and all equally lonely: The Umbrella by Tove Ditlevsen
Sharp and unsentimental, the prose of Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen crackles across the page, exposing the painful insecurities of ordinary people as they navigate the often messy experiences of lif…
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Essays, please and thanks. The good ones, the smart ones, the weird ones.
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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
On reading When I Was Young in the Mountains to departing grandsons.
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Welcome treats from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social — a title coming out next month, and a field guide to forthcoming releases!
Book: Jérôme Lindon by Jean Echenoz, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti.Catalogue with bright coloured children's illustration—Archipelago Books & Elsewhere Editions 2026 Fall & 2027 Spring.
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
ICYMI I wrote about this fascinating collaborative work. In response to a broken world: Intelligence Is the Art of Remaining Faithful under Shifting Circumstances by Alexander Kluge and Anselm Kiefer, translated y Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/08/15/i...
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In response to a broken world: Intelligence Is the Art of Remaining Faithful under Shifting Circumstances by Alexander Kluge and Anselm Kiefer
The striking title of this far-ranging intellectual and artistic collaboration between Alexander Kluge and Anselm Kiefer comes from Hölderlin’s unconventional translations of the Pindar Fragments: …
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In response to a broken world: Intelligence Is the Art of Remaining Faithful under Shifting Circumstances by Alexander Kluge and Anselm Kiefer, tr. by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/08/15/i...
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In response to a broken world: Intelligence Is the Art of Remaining Faithful under Shifting Circumstances by Alexander Kluge and Anselm Kiefer
The striking title of this far-ranging intellectual and artistic collaboration between Alexander Kluge and Anselm Kiefer comes from Hölderlin’s unconventional translations of the Pindar Fragments: …
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