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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 10h

“Love Letter in Cuneiform is a novel that challenges and exceeds the norms of a multigenerational family saga at every opportunity. […] its unique energy is sustained in translation with Zucker’s careful, and at times creative, attention to the subtleties and playfulness of Zmeškal’s language.”

Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 1d

If all happy families are alike, each strange family is strange in its own way: Love Letter in Cuneiform by Tomáš Zmeškal, translated by Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social
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If all happy families are alike, each strange family is strange in its own way: Love Letter in Cuneiform by Tomáš Zmeškal

The novel begins with a wedding. Alice and Maximilian exchanged rings and kisses, and signed a document confirming that the state of matrimony was primarily a contractual arrangement, which at the …

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 1d

If all happy families are alike, each strange family is strange in its own way: Love Letter in Cuneiform by Tomáš Zmeškal, translated by Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social
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If all happy families are alike, each strange family is strange in its own way: Love Letter in Cuneiform by Tomáš Zmeškal

The novel begins with a wedding. Alice and Maximilian exchanged rings and kisses, and signed a document confirming that the state of matrimony was primarily a contractual arrangement, which at the …

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 1d

Today's new arrivals—a cool quartet of book from experimental Canadian publisher 1366 Books, an imprint of @guernicaeditions.bsky.social !

Four books, clockwise from upper left: Strange Water by Sarah Moses, The Apple in the Orchard by Brian Dedora, A Mouth Full of Vowels by Sophie Anne Edwards, Furthermore, the Lake by Michael e. Casteels.

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 1d

If all happy families are alike, each strange family is strange in its own way: Love Letter in Cuneiform by Tomáš Zmeškal, translated by Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2025/10/09/i...

If all happy families are alike, each strange family is strange in its own way: Love Letter in Cuneiform by Tomáš Zmeškal

The novel begins with a wedding. Alice and Maximilian exchanged rings and kisses, and signed a document confirming that the state of matrimony was primarily a contractual arrangement, which at the …

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 1d

"To be beautiful is to become a satellite."

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Beyond Grandeur — Matthew Kinlin

Rhinoplasty. Cheek implants. Ultra-sonic assisted liposuction. A purple exoskeleton was admitted to the clinic last week. His name is Robert and he’s the oldest twink in Cheshire. They washed his s…

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 3d

Without postal service I know I have books currently suspended in transit somewhere, but I did welcome a new review copy this weekend—a hefty tome due next June, on Bloomsday even. @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social

Book: The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch

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monalisa vitti @monalisavitti.bsky.social · 3d

really great conversation between @noonanerik.bsky.social and al-essa, a kuwaiti bookseller and novelist

minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 4d

“[Literature is] a dance around silence, an attempt to get closer to what we are not saying”: A Conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa — @noonanerik.bsky.social

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“[Literature is] a dance around silence, an attempt to get closer to what we are not saying”: A Conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa—Erik Noonan

Anglophone audiences first encountered the Kuwaiti novelist, publisher, and bookseller Bothanya Al-Essa through excerpts of her 2004 novel A Soundless Collision (trans. Chris Bredin), published in …

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 3d

"we’re divided when it comes to being powerful in a good way, or powerful in a bad way. In the end, whoever has the power, whoever has the authority, gets to decide, gets to dictate the ideology of others."
—@noonanerik.bsky.social speaks to Bothayna Al-Essa, author of The Book Censor's Library

minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 4d

“[Literature is] a dance around silence, an attempt to get closer to what we are not saying”: A Conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa — @noonanerik.bsky.social

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“[Literature is] a dance around silence, an attempt to get closer to what we are not saying”: A Conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa—Erik Noonan

Anglophone audiences first encountered the Kuwaiti novelist, publisher, and bookseller Bothanya Al-Essa through excerpts of her 2004 novel A Soundless Collision (trans. Chris Bredin), published in …

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Eoghan Carrick @eoghancarrick.bsky.social · 12d

Really excited to have another piece coming out in @minorliteratures.bsky.social this week. It is a multi-form exploration Hans Holbein the Younger’s 1524 Alphabet with Dance of Death. I started to develop it on the @panpantheatre.bsky.social mentorship with @forcedents.bsky.social Terry O’Connor.

minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 13d

and coming up this week ...

— new fiction from @robrubsam.bsky.social

— an essay from @eoghancarrick.bsky.social

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks!

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 8d

Some thoughts about getting older.

Passing another milestone
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Passing another milestone

So, I turned sixty-five the other day. I am now one of those characters that the blurb on the back of a novel sometimes refer to as “elderly.” In fact, over sixty is usually enough to warrant that …

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 8d

Some thoughts about getting older.

Passing another milestone
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Passing another milestone

So, I turned sixty-five the other day. I am now one of those characters that the blurb on the back of a novel sometimes refer to as “elderly.” In fact, over sixty is usually enough to warrant that …

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 8d

A complete alphabet in satellite images along with poetry and prose. Be sure to open the PDF!

minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 9d

[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — a cross genre essay in images and words by Eoghan Carrick @eoghancarrick.bsky.social

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 8d

Isn't it wonderful? The kind of piece an essays editor lives for.

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 9d

[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — a cross genre essay in images and words by Eoghan Carrick @eoghancarrick.bsky.social

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 9d

[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — Eoghan Carrick
@eoghancarrick.bsky.social
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[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] — Eoghan Carrick

from Alphabet with Dance of Death, Hans Holbein the Younger Chronically cash-strapped, the Emperor [Maximilian I] stimulated contemporary local artists […] to try out new techniques and form…

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 10d

Registration is open. Register for in-person and online.

www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 10d

"Never in my life have I felt so wild, so free, so completely without a goal. Somehow I saw the Limestone Alps, the Sierra Nevada. Twice I leapt naked into the Mediterranean."

The Searchers — Robert Rubsam
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The Searchers — Robert Rubsam

(He began, more or less:) I don’t know why I climbed into the night. Yes, I was young and drunk and hopelessly lost. Yet fool that I was I should still have stumbled back to my room, climbed into m…

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 12d

If you all get together and eat Big Macs I am definitely concerned...

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 12d

ICYMI I wrote about this collection of unsettling short stories from an Argentinian master of "bizarro" fiction.
Slipping into the twilight zone: Diving Board by Tomás Downey, translated by Sarah Moses @invisibooks.bsky.social
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Slipping into the twilight zone: Diving Board by Tomás Downey

The first thing I think to write is this: what’s happening to me is incredible. But immediately, I stop—I’m suspicious of everything. I think about it, reread the sentence, and the pen slips throug…

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 13d

ENTANGLED #4 by Damian Ward @damianward.bsky.social

New for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social

LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH

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Entangled #4 by Damian Ward

Damian Ward’s work explores the subtle interplay between nature, memory,& the enduring presence of the past. Through a monochromatic lens,he seeks to distill the landscape to its essential form…

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 14d

Slipping into the twilight zone: Diving Board by Tomás Downey, translated by Sarah Moses @invisibooks.bsky.social
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Slipping into the twilight zone: Diving Board by Tomás Downey

The first thing I think to write is this: what’s happening to me is incredible. But immediately, I stop—I’m suspicious of everything. I think about it, reread the sentence, and the pen slips throug…

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 14d

Slipping into the twilight zone: Diving Board by Tomás Downey, translated by Sarah Moses @invisibooks.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2025/09/26/s...

Slipping into the twilight zone: Diving Board by Tomás Downey

The first thing I think to write is this: what’s happening to me is incredible. But immediately, I stop—I’m suspicious of everything. I think about it, reread the sentence, and the pen slips throug…

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 14d

After my cardiac arrest, the cardiologist explained to me that cardiac arrest is electrical, heart attack is plumbing. Maybe Danielle can raid trade schools to staff health care like she would like to do with education.

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 14d

"Gazing on this beautiful ivory, abhorrent feelings stir and quiver and seethe. The elaborate unity of the ivory material in effect makes my melodramatic gloom mix with comic-corporeal reconciliations under the aegis of the erotic."

– Joseph Nechvatal @orbistertiuspress.bsky.social

minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 16d

Venus Voluptuous in the Loins of the Last God — Joseph Nechvatal ( @orbistertiuspress.bsky.social )

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Venus Voluptuous in the Loins of the Last God — Joseph Nechvatal

Nimbus Mimesis Penis and the Velvet Hammer It once was a given that the power of confirmation and denial is vested, not in the ability to connect and become visible, but rather in the ability (and …

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