Joseph Schreiber

Book: The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch

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

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

"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

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.

Thanks!

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 …

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 …

Some thoughts about getting older.

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

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

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

[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…

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

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

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…

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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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…

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

New for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social

LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH

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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…

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…

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

"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

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

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).

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

“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…

"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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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.

Marking the autumnal equinox on the Douglas Fir Trail.

Book: Call Me Stratos by Chrysoula Georgoula

Book: On the Marble Cliffs by Ernst Jünger

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

Been a loss for words lately I’m afraid. At least those I feel safe expressing.

Deeply grateful to Mona for this interview. 🖤

"I admire traitors, heretics, skeptics, bitches, mystics, humans designated as abnormal, people who refuse the terms we are given, minds that stay unsettled . . . "

@alinaetc.bsky.social in conversation with @monalisavitti.bsky.social

Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff — [name of author] …perhaps you can imagine Woolf walking down to the Ouse. She puts stones in her pockets. She sits on a large rock looking out at the water. She does not take the stones from her pockets and…

"You can learn a bit of Arabic in YOUR NAME HERE. It will be more useful to you than any of the Elvish languages you might have learned in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien."

Your Name Here by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff — [name of author]  minorliteratures.com/2025/09/17/y...

The Buried Museums by Jeff Young The Buried Museums Holy Grail, hollowed bone, half buried in the dirt. Above the Brow God is moving his furniture, wardrobes of thunderclouds, heavy     driving migraines into y…

THE BURIED MUSEUMS by Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social

Poetry for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social

LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH

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