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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].
@roughghosts.bsky.socialSurely somebody knows something: Sarajevo Saga by Stefan Çapaliku, tr. by Vlora Konushevci #AlbanianLit
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@lise-l.bsky.socialReposted by @roughghosts.bsky.socialIls étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
@roughghosts.bsky.socialThis week's new arrivals—upcoming from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social —the Jergović this Tuesday, the Mukasonga in November.
"Whose deviation from the standard is art, and whose is error?"
Super happy about the Carson win but I discussed in this essay last year the double standards of who gets accepted into the canon of unconventionality and who doesn't.
@roughghosts.bsky.socialICYMI, I wrote about this gently surreal collection of stories by an unjustly almost-forgotten writer from Argentina. @transitbooks.bsky.social
Of dreams, memories, and the imagination: Slow Elephants of Milan by Ángel Bonomini roughghosts.com/2026/10/06/o...
@roughghosts.bsky.socialEnd of the World (1911/2026) — Jakob van Hoddis [tr. Alexander Booth] minorliteratures.com/2026/10/08/e...
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@roughghosts.bsky.socialReposted by @roughghosts.bsky.socialOf dreams, memories, and the imagination: Slow Elephants of Milan by Ángel Bonomini @transitbooks.bsky.social
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@roughghosts.bsky.socialOf dreams, memories, and the imagination: Slow Elephants of Milan by Ángel Bonomini @transitbooks.bsky.social
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@mathildegm.bsky.socialReposted by @roughghosts.bsky.socialThis month's reviews are, in my opinion, a spectacular advertisement for Berlin's lit culture: an Irish writer who writes beautifully about home, a Berlin-based Arabic publisher and translator, and the city's pull on writers from around the world.
@roughghosts.bsky.social"Vapes and Lime bikes? Obviously related. What’s going on?
Batteries? Yeah, that’s it. Batteries. It’s not batteries, everything has batteries. They’re convenient? No, that’s offensively dull."
Connor Davis on biking and vaping around London, today at @minorliteratures.bsky.social
@roughghosts.bsky.socialI Shall Be Released — Connor Davis minorliteratures.com/2026/10/06/i...
@roughghosts.bsky.social"Back at the traffic lights there’s blueberry-infused disbelief at the utter selfishness of it all. Someone shouts at me from behind as a sharp honk wakes me up. Green. The lights are green."
I Shall Be Released — Connor Davis minorliteratures.com/2026/10/06/i...
@roughghosts.bsky.socialI'm always impressed by the range of your reading and thrilled to see The Red Sofa on your list! Such a perfect novella. I don't think I've ever seen anyone else mention it.
@roughghosts.bsky.socialAutumn portraits along the Douglas Fir Trail.
@minxmarple.bsky.socialReposted by @roughghosts.bsky.socialDaniela is a genius, and one of my favourite writers. Here’s why:
@roughghosts.bsky.socialICYMI I wrote about Daniela Cascella's latest infectious essay about reading, writing, listening, and seeing. @erratumpress.bsky.social
“I write in circles”: Beauty Burning: The Condition of Music by Daniela Cascella roughghosts.com/2026/10/01/i...
@minorliteratures.bsky.socialReposted by @roughghosts.bsky.social"He was born under a cold star. He was told by his mother that she [...] saw it burning like polished metal, greater than the others in the constellations around it, and that it was a sign, she said ..."
The Apparent Leader — @davidhering.bsky.social
@erratumpress.bsky.socialReposted by @roughghosts.bsky.social"To read Daniela Cascella is to be swept into an ongoing conversation within a maze of words, of voices, of images, of moments that catch one off guard, inspire, alarm. Her writing is energetic, continually in motion, seeking, questioning, listening for echoes in time and space." -- Joseph Schreiber
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