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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 1d

“[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 · 1d

"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 · 1d

“[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 · 9d

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 · 10d

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 · 3d

Thanks!

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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

minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 6d

[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 · 5d

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

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 6d

[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 · 6d

[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 · 7d

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

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 7d

"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 · 9d

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

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 9d

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 · 11d

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 · 11d

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 · 11d

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 · 11d

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 · 11d

"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 · 13d

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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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 12d

So happy that my piece is out at the evergreen review (such an iconic name in the game). I'm very fond of this one, I have performed variations of it live, but I'm quite happy with this text incarnation

The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 12d

“Copyright laws are great if you are a rumored-to-be-cryogenically-frozen racist in America, but thieves like us we know how the song goes.”

Up now our Fall/Winter 2025 issue: “If Bruce Springsteen was a lesbian” by @laraacorona.bsky.social. Art by Carol Bruns. evergreenreview.com/read/if-bruc...

If Bruce Springsteen was a lesbian

Evergreen Review

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 14d

Book post from Prague today. A Slovak novel from @karolinumpress.cuni.cz , and Czech and German lit from @twistedspoon.bsky.social

Book: The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola, translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood.

Two books: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rhum (trans by Alexander Booth) and The Tigress by Walter Serner (trans by Mark Kanak).

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 15d

"I think that one autobiographical impetus was, well, what would it look like to fail and just completely reject these methods, or the idea of productivity that we are enmeshed in?"

— Austyn Wohlers talks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social

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“What would it look like to just seek absolute stillness?”: An Interview with Austyn Wohlers—Cristina Politano

Austyn Wohlers is a New York-based writer and musician, whose debut novel, Hothouse Bloom, was recently published by Hub City Press. In the novel, Wohlers details the struggle of the protagonist, A…

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 15d

Marking the autumnal equinox on the Douglas Fir Trail.

Back lit orange leaves against a blurred background of yellow grean grass and dark trees.

Scene shot across rail tracks of trees in varying shades of green, red and gold against a clear blue sky.

Path leading up into the distance between sunlit forest. Tall dark fir trees in foreground.

Path between aspen trees, some turning orange against clear blue sky.

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 18d

New books this week: The first Greek translation from Istros Books due in October, and from Ernst Jünger who appeared in Kluge's War Primer, an allegory of the advent of fascism. Timely, eh? @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

Book: Call Me Stratos by Chrysoula Georgoula

Book: On the Marble Cliffs by Ernst Jünger

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