Joseph Schreiber

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Reader, writer, editor, lonely wanderer. Based in Calgary, Canada. Write about books at www.roughghosts.com Essays Editor at Minor Literature[s].

Book: On the Other Side is March by Sólrún Michelsen, translated from the Faroese by Marita Thomsen.
Books, clockwise from upper left: Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig, Is Beauty Good by Rosalind Belben, How complete+final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net by Ellen Dillon, The Pure and The Impure by Colette, Intelligence Is the Art of Remaining Faithful Under Shifting Circumstances by Alexander Kluge and Anselm Kiefer.
Black and white photo of a black and white cat.
Book: What Lies Ahead and other essays by Caroline Clark.
Evening sun on a field of purple and pink wildflowers with trees in the background.
Two books: Visions & Apparitions by Ladislav Klíma ad Prague Triptych by Johannes Urzidil.
stack of books from top: Aside From My Heart, All is Well by Hector Abad, Glantz by Tobias Ryan, Dying in Toronto by Daša Drndić, and The Heat of a Man by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Book: Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah by Miljenko Jergović, translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursać and Mirza Purić
Cascade of pink wild roses over a metal fence railing.
Book: LILLIPUTIN: Tales from a War by Jan Němec
Stack of books, from top: Ode to a Grieving Angel by Naveen Kishore, Ludwig's Room by Alois Hotschnig, Flying Yoginis by Irwin Allan Sealy, Night Breaks Apart, Like Pomegranate Seeds in My Palm by Aakriti Kuntal, Gold Sand, Gold Water by Nalini Bera, Under a Pannonian Sky: Ten Women Poets from Hungary edited by Ottilie Mulzet,and Intelligence is the Art of Remaining Faithful. . . by Alexander Kluge and Anselm Kiefer
Four books. Top row: Murmours from the Hills by Scholastique Mukasonga, Beauty, Burning: The Condition of Music by Daniela Cascella. Lower row: Mrs. Kleofas's Rooster by Gyula Krúdy, Tablets–Secrets of the Clay by Dunya Mikhail
Book featuring black and white photo of Thomas Bernhard titled My Prizes: An Accounting, translated by Carol Brown Janeway.
The trunks of two aspen trees amid greening bushes with a covering of fresh snow on the ground.
Trail through a forest of Douglas fir trees with bright sunshine.
Stack of books. From top down: In a Cabin, In the Woods by Michael Krüger, The Abyss by Jeyamohan, Eternidades/Eternities by Juan Ramón Jiménez, Gold Dust by Ibrahim al-Koni, Maybe Even Happiness by Ludovic Bruckstein, Fourteen Ways of Looking by Erin Vincent, and Gender Trouble by Judith Butler.
Three books: Aside from my Heart All is Well by Héctor Abad, The Book of Homes by Andrea Bajani, and Restless was the Night and Other Stories by Buddhadeva Bose.
Book: The Town I Never Told You About: Poems, 2022-2024 by Ghassan Zaqtan (tr Robin Moger)
Snow covered path bordered by bare trees, bushes and grass.
Landscape, snow-covered foreground, then bare tree and spruce trees, with downtown office towers in the distance.
Book: Maybe Even Happiness by Ludovic Bruckstein
Black and white landscape, dark fir trees in foreground, downtown Calgary in the distance, voluminous white clouds.
Snow covered path descending through forest toward sunlit trees.
Two books: Slow Elephants of Milan by Ángel Bonomini (Aug) and Abyss by Jeyamohan (April)
Four books, clockwise from upper left: Hymn to Mornay Eels by Mirielle Best, Chapal Rani, the Last Queen of Bengal by Sandip Roy, My Mother's Silver Fox by Alois Hotschnig, and The Mushroom Gatherer by Viktorie Hanišová.
Two books: Vilhelm's Room by Tove Ditlevsen, The Lord by Soraya Antonius
Book: The World is Made Up Every Day: Selected Poems by Alok Dhanwa, translated by Saudamini Deo
Book: Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ivana Sajko, translated from the Croatian by Mima Simić.
Four books, clockwise: Chronicles of a Village by Nguyen Thanh Hien, Landscape with Landscape by Gerald Murnane, Tamil Terrains, ed by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran, and The Answer to Lord Chandos by Pascal Quinard.
Book: GLANTZ by Tobias Ryan
Books: The Little Horse by Thorvald Steen, tr by James Anderson, and Selfies by Sylvie Weil tr by Roz Schwartz
Stack of books, from top: Götz and Meyer by David Albahari Lament for Julia by Susan Taubes The Silentiary by Antonio Di Bennedetto A Strange and Sublime Address by Amit Chaudhuri The Wrong Turning by Stephen Johnston
Stack of books. From top: Becoming Animal by Teresa Präauer, An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence by Dana Grigorcea, Advent by Gunnar Gunnarsson, Ancient Algorithms by Kristine Øgaard Jensen (and others), The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm, The Sorrow of Angels by Jón Kalman Stefánsson.
Books: The Third Solitude by Benjamin Libman and The Answer to Lord Chandos by Pascal Quinard
Black and white photo a building with warped and convoluted dimensions further distorted by a fish eye lens.
Books: Anomaly by Andrej Nikolaidis, translated from the Montenegrin by Will Firth, and Advent by Gunnar Gunnarsson, translated from the Danish by Phillip Roughton.
Book: "tamil terrains: poems translations reflections"
Books: Needle's Eye by Wieslaw Mysliwski translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston and The Leuconthea Dialogues by Cesare Pavese, translated from the Italian by Minna Zallman Proctor
Looking down at my feet in green running shoes.
Stack of books. From top: Heaven and Hell by Jon Kalman Stefánsson, The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola, Light, Grass, and Letter in April by Inger Christensen, Call Me Stratos by Chrysoula Georgoula.
Books: Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen (with others) and Acrobat Music–New & Selected Poems by Jill Jones.
Book: The Sorrow of Angels by Jon Kalman Stefánsson
Books: The Monroe Girls by Antoine Volodine and stay with me by Hanne Ørstavik.
Book: Asylum Piece by Ana Kavan
Book: The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola, translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood.
Book: A Parish Chronicle by Halldór Laxness. Translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton.
Trail leading down amid fir trees and aspen trees turning yellow.
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.
Book: The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch
Book: The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola, translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood.