Joseph Schreiber

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Reader, writer, editor, lonely wanderer. Based in Calgary, Canada. Write about books at www.roughghosts.com

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“There is something priming itself in these shadows” Strangers in Light Coats: Selected Poems, 2014 – 2020 by Ghassan Zaqtan, translated by Robin Moger roughghosts.com/2024/07/13/t...

“There is something priming itself in these shadows” Strangers in Light Coats: Selected Poems, 2014 – 2020 by Ghassan Zaqtanroughghosts.com The wooden bell that hangs in the dark is struck. Is struck. No one sees it but it is struck. No one is there and the bell is struck. It is struck on the front porch of the dream and in its shadowed c...

“There is something priming itself in these shadows” Strangers in Light Coats: Selected Poems, 2014 – 2020 by Ghassan Zaqtan, translated by Robin Moger roughghosts.com/2024/07/13/t...

My son and I did a little exploring this afternoon...

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'Mothers in Gaza are so malnourished themselves that they cannot breastfeed, and so babies are dying, literally starving to death, because they cannot get the vital nutrition that newborns need.' Yes, but does it meet the definition of genocide that I made up? news.sky.com/story/newbor...

Newborn babies now have little chance of survival in Gaza, hospital director warnsnews.sky.com Mothers are so malnourished they cannot breastfeed, so their babies are dying - literally starving to death - because they cannot get the vital nutrition they desperately need.

New on my blog, a novella from Turkish writer Ferit Edgü that dramatizes personal and political isolation. Translated by Fulya Peker. roughghosts.com/2024/07/04/o...

Our loneliness is always plural: Noone by Ferit Edgüroughghosts.com What do you want me to do? says the First Voice. I want you to talk a little more, says the Second Voice. Wasn’t it enough? says the First Voice. Not yet, says the Second Voice. What should I tell you...

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By the time we come back from the summer hiatus, a few things will have changed at minor lits ... minorliteratures.com/2024/06/28/c...

CHANGE[S]minorliteratures.com By the time we come back from the summer hiatus, a few things will have changed at minor lits. The most significant is that after five and half years with us, and three in charge of Essays & Features...

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New on my blog, a review The Birth of Emma K by Zsolt Láng, translated by Owen Good and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2024/06/26/e...

Exploring the uncomfortable corners of human existence: The Birth of Emma K. and Other Stories by Zsolt Lángroughghosts.com The fiction of Zsolt Láng inhabits a slippery space where time, genre, and realities shift and bend, where history shapes and distorts the landscape, and where characters are driven by conflicted pass...

Roses, roses, wild roses.

New on my blog, a review The Birth of Emma K by Zsolt Láng, translated by Owen Good and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2024/06/26/e...

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“If you go through things, the warp and weft of time, there comes a point where you’ll feel it, you’ll see that you’re writing your own sentences”: An interview with Greg Gerke — Tobias Ryanminorliteratures.com In his debut novel, In the Suavity of the Rock, author and essayist Greg Gerke reflects on memory, and the impulse to seek — and impose — narratives as a way of making the inchoate of life cohere. We ...

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The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes.

The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloudthereader.mitpress.mit.edu Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.

Wild rose season is here.

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New on my blog, a review of I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti, translated from the Arabic by Ahdef Soueif. roughghosts.com/2024/06/19/i...

“I do not live in a place. I live in a time.” I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghoutiroughghosts.com When his name is finally called after waiting for hours, he grabs his small bag and steps on to the Allenby Bridge to cross, for “the first time in thirty summers,” from Jordan to the West Bank: Is th...

New on my blog, a review of I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti, translated from the Arabic by Ahdef Soueif. roughghosts.com/2024/06/19/i...

I wandered lonely as a cloud.

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New on my blog, a review of Engagement by Turkish writer, Ciler Ilhan. roughghosts.com/2024/06/07/t...

That black night: Engagement by Çiler İlhanroughghosts.com Her hair was like her name. Dark as the night. Cloaking her to the waist. Bilal had been smitten by this hair while still a boy. This he told to Leyla many years later. When she reached the age of twe...

New on my blog, a review of Engagement by Turkish writer, Ciler Ilhan. roughghosts.com/2024/06/07/t...

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New on my blog, a review of a varied and energetic debut story collection by John Madera: roughghosts.com/2024/06/03/t...

There is always a forgetting in the remembering: Nervosities by John Maderaroughghosts.com Nervosities, the debut short story collection from New York City based writer John Madera opens halfway around the world, amid the congested narrow laneways and confluence of contradictions that is Va...

New on my blog, a review of a varied and energetic debut story collection by John Madera: roughghosts.com/2024/06/03/t...

My blog is 10 years old today! roughghosts.com/2024/05/31/t...

Ten years of roughghostsroughghosts.com Rabindra Sarobar, Kolkata, September 2023 One decade into this endeavour, which began as a bit of a manic impulse, I'm still here. I'm not the most prolific blogger, and not the fastest reader, but I ...

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New on my blog, a review of a newly released collection of crónicas by Argentinian writer Hebe Uhart, translated by Anna Vilner. roughghosts.com/2024/05/29/w...

With a restless curiosity: A Question of Belonging: Crónicas by Hebe Uhartroughghosts.com To experience the world through the words of the esteemed Argentinian writer Hebe Urhart is to be offered a uniquely calm and compassionate view of ordinary places and people that effortlessly makes t...

New on my blog, a review of a newly released collection of crónicas by Argentinian writer Hebe Uhart, translated by Anna Vilner. roughghosts.com/2024/05/29/w...

Wild clematis is my favourite spring flower. It prefers shady spots with just a little light filtering through.

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The poet Suzanne Buffam has this incredible little lyric about the play Antigone. I hope you had the pleasure of reading the play in high school, but if you didn't, I hope my blog entry gets you excited enough to read it: encouragement.ghost.io/suzanne-buff...

Suzanne Buffam, "On Antigone"encouragement.ghost.io Suzanne Buffam's little lyric "On Antigone" strikes me as if the perfect words have been spoken.

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For Mental Health Awareness Month, some thoughts about living with mental illness and three books that I relate to: roughghosts.com/2024/05/25/s...

Some thoughts about living with mental illness and a few books that, in my experience, address the matter wellroughghosts.com May is Mental Health Awareness Month, at least in Canada and the US, and this morning I awoke to find an essay in my inbox titled “The Last Great Stigma” by Pernille Yilmam. This Aeon article addresse...

For Mental Health Awareness Month, some thoughts about living with mental illness and three books that I relate to: roughghosts.com/2024/05/25/s...

Here I write a little bit more about Leiris and link to my Minor Literature[s] review. roughghosts.com/2024/05/16/a...

At last, the final volume of Michel Leiris’ The Rules of the Game is available in English—a few (well, more than a few) words about it and a link to my review at Minor Literature[s]roughghosts.com As a reader, I do not tend to be a completest, collecting and diligently making my way through the complete works and associated letters and journals of a particular writer, but if I have made one exc...

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Doppelgänger (A Gonzo Mission) — Alberto Prunetti, tr. Fernando Sdrigotti minorliteratures.com/2024/05/15/d...

Doppelgänger (A Gonzo Mission) — Alberto Prunetti, tr. Fernando Sdrigottiminorliteratures.com Twenty years later. Twenty years later I’m on my way to Bristol. Or rather, on my way to the miserable mall where I used to clean the loos. I take off from Pisa first thing in the morning; I remember ...

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Hot history: Tree rings show that last northern summer was the warmest since year 1 www.detroitnews.com/story/news/w... via @detroitnews #Climate

Hot history: Tree rings show that last northern summer was the warmest since year 1www.detroitnews.com The hottest summer before climate change was 246, but last year's was about 2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer.