Joseph Schreiber

@roughghosts

I'm either lacerated or ill at ease and occasionally subject to gusts of life. (Barthes)
Reader, writer, lonely wanderer. Essays Editor @MinorLits

Calgary, Canada roughghosts.com Joined June 2011

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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts May 14, 2024

My review of Frail Riffs by Michel Leiris, one of my favourite writers, is now live at @MinorLits @yalepress
Rules of the Game, Volume 4: Frail Riffs by Michel Leiris (translated by Richard Sieburth) — Joseph Schreiber
minorliteratures.com/2024/05/14/rul… via @MinorLits

minorliteratures.com Rules of the Game, Volume 4: Frail Riffs by Michel Leiris (tr. Richard Sieburth) — Joseph Schreiber With a life that spanned almost the whole of the twentieth century, Michel Leiris (1901–1990) knew and formed close friendships with many of the most important intellectual and artistic figures of …

Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts 17h

"One could call us deluded. One could argue that we sought in him what was missing in ourselves: a form to contain and connect the scattered pieces of a life."

The Sixth Desert, Vol. I: The Director — Panagiotis Kehagias minorliteratures.com/2026/11/10/the…

minorliteratures.com The Sixth Desert, Vol. I: The Director — Panagiotis Kehagias “The world is a book and he knows how to read it,” Lucien said. “He reads the light, reads the angles, reads the faces, and combines them into sentences and paragraphs: moving images on a screen.” …

Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts 1d

New review copies arrived. a wide ranging collection of essays on attention, and a debut novel from a local writer and talented bookish friend. (So exciting!) @UChicagoPress @dundurnpress @ianmacclayn

Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts 1d

I find it hard to believe that M. John Harrison is 81. It seems like only yesterday that he was 71.
Then I remember that I'm not in my mid-50s any more either.

BBC Breaking News Verified account @BBCBreaking 2d

Author M John Harrison wins Booker Prize 2026, becoming oldest recipient of award aged 81 bbc.in/4kBfOsY
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Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts 6d

"Does it matter at this point whether I’m starting to feel warm or very cold?"
— @writingenjoyer

All Ears — Selen Ozturk minorliteratures.com/2026/11/05/all…

minorliteratures.com All Ears — Selen Ozturk My neck thankfully coloring orange-mold while Tony Robbins says People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals. My heel tip-tests the underfoot chair; my hand tug-tests the overhead fan; Tony…