Recent arrivals: a Faroese novel for #WITMonth, the latest from multi-gendered Danish writer and performer Madame Nielsen, and an Albanian novel due in October. @transitbooks.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social #IstrosBooks
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].
ICYMI I wrote about this collection of eerie short stories translated from the German by @tesslewis.bsky.social That strange face in the mirror: Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig roughghosts.com/2026/08/01/t...
That strange face in the mirror: Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig
The stamps on the envelope were still moist. I noticed they were foreign. As I got to the window I realized that I was, in fact, in another country, somewhere unfamiliar. I didn’t know where. To co…
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July reading. Two reviews to come, but in the meantime, on to Women in Translation month.
That strange face in the mirror: Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig, translated by @tesslewis.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/08/01/t...
That strange face in the mirror: Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig
The stamps on the envelope were still moist. I noticed they were foreign. As I got to the window I realized that I was, in fact, in another country, somewhere unfamiliar. I didn’t know where. To co…
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That strange face in the mirror: Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig, translated by @tesslewis.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/08/01/t...
That strange face in the mirror: Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig
The stamps on the envelope were still moist. I noticed they were foreign. As I got to the window I realized that I was, in fact, in another country, somewhere unfamiliar. I didn’t know where. To co…
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get a taster here: minorliteratures.com/2026/06/11/h...
How complete + final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net — Ellen Dillon
Note: Use of italics indicates citation. A note on sources follows the text. How complete + final the feeling In the rowboat someone whispers from the future hold your temper loosely or lik…
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Ellen Dillon@drnollid.bsky.social · 5d agoSummer sale weekend over on @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social 20% off my new one, among a host of other gems 💙 www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
Monthly Dispatch #37 — ft. Tim MacGabhann, Michael Holt, Liza Costello ( @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social ) Valérie Manteau (tr. Claire Foster), @hadeejasouffle.bsky.social Larry Gottheim @archieislander.bsky.social @gerryfeehily.bsky.social @autreauxp.bsky.social ...
submissions for fiction, essays and experimental texts open tomorrow ... general info here: minorliteratures.com/submissions/
submission[s]
We are open for submissions of reviews, interviews, extracts, beefs, and textos en español/textes en français year round. Please read submissions requirements carefully before sending your work. Fi…
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"Georgi is an artist. I’m not familiar with his work other than the canvas that looms above our bed, an oil-painting-cum-newspaper-collage that depicts Stalin playing violin with a sickle."
Joseph Schreiber@roughghosts.bsky.social · 6d agoThe Furrow — Valérie Manteau (tr. Claire Foster) minorliteratures.com/2026/07/30/t...
i helped book a literary festival earlier this year and brought claire to peterborough to read from the furrow, great person as well, have been waiting for this translation to come to english for a while.
Joseph Schreiber@roughghosts.bsky.social · 6d agoThe Furrow — Valérie Manteau (tr. Claire Foster) minorliteratures.com/2026/07/30/t...
we will be on hiatus until September ... but plenty to look forward to ...
"But writing is so stupid, so solitary, you’re slouched in front of a computer all day, I don’t know how other people concentrate but it takes almost nothing to distract me ..." — Valérie Manteau (tr. Claire Foster) minorliteratures.com/2026/07/30/t...
The Furrow — Valérie Manteau (tr. Claire Foster)
So, what’s new in the country of human rights? I wonder if he’s being sarcastic, but no. I try to keep up with the French press, but it seems outrageously useless and self-centred if you don’t live…
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The Furrow — Valérie Manteau (tr. Claire Foster) minorliteratures.com/2026/07/30/t...
The Furrow — Valérie Manteau (tr. Claire Foster)
So, what’s new in the country of human rights? I wonder if he’s being sarcastic, but no. I try to keep up with the French press, but it seems outrageously useless and self-centred if you don’t live…
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Snap! An honour to endorse this book of perceptive, beautiful essays by @cclarklewes.bsky.social. WHAT LIES AHEAD is out now from @blackheraldpress.bsky.social.
Joseph Schreiber@roughghosts.bsky.social · 7d agoIn the post, a fine collection of essays by @cclarklewes.bsky.social. And I am unlikely to ever write a book, but I am still thrilled to have my name on the (back) cover. @blackheraldpress.bsky.social
*IS BEAUTY GOOD*
Joseph Schreiber@roughghosts.bsky.social · last wk.ICYMI I wrote about the latest release in the long overdue Rosalind Belben revival. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social “I fall awake and think, I want to go home”: Is Beauty Good by Rosalind Belben roughghosts.com/2026/07/27/i...
In the post, a fine collection of essays by @cclarklewes.bsky.social. And I am unlikely to ever write a book, but I am still thrilled to have my name on the (back) cover. @blackheraldpress.bsky.social
![Back of book with detailed description including the following blurb:
“In these essays, written over a span of almost two decades, one has the sense that Clark is feeling her way into and through years of accumulated reading, contemplation, and experience to loosen a stream of thoughtful reflection that ebbs and flows as it searches its way towards her reader. Oh, how fortunate to be on the receiving end.”
Joseph Schreiber, essay editor at Minor Literature[s]
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ICYMI I wrote about the latest release in the long overdue Rosalind Belben revival. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social “I fall awake and think, I want to go home”: Is Beauty Good by Rosalind Belben roughghosts.com/2026/07/27/i...
“I fall awake and think, I want to go home”: Is Beauty Good by Rosalind Belben
I think, it doesn’t matter where I am, whether calm or with nerves shot to pieces, in the mountains, in towns, sleeping well or sleeping badly, it doesn’t matter, I am quite lost, wherever I am. I …
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« Les éléments autobiographiques et les circonstances du récit sont une matière prétexte pour donner forme à ce qui devient flottant quand on ruine les constructions les plus superficielles du moi … » — @autreauxp.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/07/28/e...
« [E]crire protège de l’inévitable moment où passera l’éponge sur le tableau noir »: Interview avec Patrick Autréaux — Cristina Politano
Patrick Autréaux est un écrivain et médecin français dont le dernier roman, Avenue des Amériques (Gallimard, 2026), retrace son ambivalence vis-à-vis de son pays d’adoption, les États-Unis. Troisiè…
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"The autobiographical elements and the contexts of the narrative serve as a pretext for lending shape to what becomes elusive when we dismantle the most superficial constructs of the self …" — @autreauxp.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/07/28/w...
“[W]riting protects us from the inevitable moment when the eraser wipes the blackboard clean”: An Interview with Patrick Autréaux — Cristina Politano
Patrick Autréaux is a French writer and physician whose most recent novel, Avenue des Amériques (Gallimard 2026) traces his ambivalence about his adopted country, the United States. The third insta…
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"I feel like an outsider when it comes to autofiction, but I don’t feel completely alien to it either. While “autobiographical novel” is a somewhat dated term, “fiction” is easy to apply, basically accurate, but still somehow inadequate."
minor literature[s]@minorliteratures.bsky.social · last wk.“[W]riting protects us from the inevitable moment when the eraser wipes the blackboard clean”: An Interview with Patrick Autréaux — Cristina Politano minorliteratures.com/2026/07/28/w...
Eleven years ago I had a cardiac arrest due to a pulmonary embolism. No angels,no tunnel of light, no rising above my body to watch my son and then the EMT perform CPR. It was a long time before I learned just how low survival rate is from such an event. Still feel a little numb.
“I fall awake and think, I want to go home”: Is Beauty Good by Rosalind Belben @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/07/27/i...
“I fall awake and think, I want to go home”: Is Beauty Good by Rosalind Belben
I think, it doesn’t matter where I am, whether calm or with nerves shot to pieces, in the mountains, in towns, sleeping well or sleeping badly, it doesn’t matter, I am quite lost, wherever I am. I …
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“I fall awake and think, I want to go home”: Is Beauty Good by Rosalind Belben @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/07/27/i...
“I fall awake and think, I want to go home”: Is Beauty Good by Rosalind Belben
I think, it doesn’t matter where I am, whether calm or with nerves shot to pieces, in the mountains, in towns, sleeping well or sleeping badly, it doesn’t matter, I am quite lost, wherever I am. I …
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We're open for submissions at @minorliteratures.bsky.social (fiction, essays, experimental) for the months of August. Here's the nonfiction invite. Let's see what you've got!
minor literature[s]@minorliteratures.bsky.social · last wk.ESSAYS ( @roughghosts.bsky.social )
"You unbuckle your jeans, step out of them. There you are, in your y-fronts, the wind on your naked white legs. If this was a dream, then it would be the one when your teeth fall out, says Cass. Actually, this is cool, says Nick..." @gerryfeehily.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/07/23/n...
Now — Gerry Feehily
ART You remind Cass of someone. A singer, no wait, that actor, she says, dabbing your forehead, nose and eye sockets with brown foundation. The one in that film, what’s his name, she says. About Wo…
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"Vous enlevez votre jean. Vous êtes là, en caleçon, le vent sur vos jambes blanches nues. C’est cool, dit Nick. Il commence à photographier ..." @gerryfeehily.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/07/23/n...
Now — Gerry Feehily
ART Tu me rappelles quelqu’un. Un chanteur, non attends, un acteur, dit Cass en tamponnant votre front, votre nez et vos orbites avec du fond de teint brun. Celui du film, comment s’appelle-t-il, s…
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"People down below were wading in the pool, coming as close as they could to the falls, getting their faces covered with mist. It’s so sex and death, said Catherine. I was thinking the exact same thing." In the Valley of Marvels — Michael Holt minorliteratures.com/2026/07/21/i...
In the Valley of Marvels — Michael Holt
I. Our first day in the Valley of Marvels, and we were on our way to the falls. Everyone told us we had to see the falls. The falls were an absolute must. A trip to the Valley without seeing the fa…
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“Clark is feeling her way into and through years of accumulated reading, contemplation and experience to loosen a stream of thoughtful reflection...how fortunate to be on the receiving end” J. Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social about @cclarklewes.bsky.social www.blackheraldpress.com/what-lies-ahead
