“How many years fit into one day?” Heaven and Hell by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, tr. by Philip Roughton @biblioasis.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2025/11/08/h...

"In the chipped rearview mirror whose corroded edges were covered with grease, the small unobstructed circle in the center framed the passenger’s face when Fabo looked from a certain angle." – Nebojša Lujanović, tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social

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"In the chipped rearview mirror whose corroded edges were covered with grease, the small unobstructed circle in the center framed the passenger’s face when Fabo looked from a certain angle." – Nebojša Lujanović, tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social

Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. Ena Selimović) minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/c...

“It’s not just that the far right is reactionary, that it reacts to something, but it’s a preventive counter-revolution”: An Interview with Jack Z. Bratich — Daniel Lukes minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/i...

ALSO! Monthly Dispatch #28 — feat. everything we published in October & more — went out ... minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-di...

Books finished in October.

ICYMI, I wrote about this excellent collection of short stories by an important Slovak writer, now available in English from @karolinumpress.cuni.cz @juliasherwood.bsky.social “Pain is a privilege of the living.” The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola roughghosts.com/2025/10/30/p...

Here are the key events from day 1,345 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

"In Syros, you struggled to separate your fantasy of Greece from the Greece around you. Pink dawns, laundry on balconies, and exhaust fumes wrestled with Styx, Lethe, coins on cold tongues." — @dluntz.bsky.social

"It’s not that I fail. It’s that this is what succeeding now looks like ..." minorliteratures.com/2025/10/29/i...

“Pain is a privilege of the living.” The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola, tr. by Julia and Peter Sherwood @karolinumpress.cuni.cz @juliasherwood.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2025/10/30/p...

"I’d show you my modest library, a playhouse fantasy fitting in as a poor substitute for the lost sanctuary of my youth. Or maybe it’s more than that." The Sentimental Monster — Mikra Namani minorliteratures.com/2025/10/30/t...

“Pain is a privilege of the living.” The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola, tr. by Julia and Peter Sherwood @karolinumpress.cuni.cz @juliasherwood.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2025/10/30/p...

I Am Afraid to Die minorliteratures.com/2025/10/29/i...

" I don’t know what it is about him, but I sympathize with his neuroses and anxieties. He was an intensely neurotic and a very fearful person, and it comes out a lot in in his fiction." @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social discusses his new book on Thomas Mann with @monalisavitti.bsky.social

my latest interview with the writer @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social on his book about thomas mann and the magic mountain

Nonfiction at @minorliteratures.bsky.social will open for submissions in December as well.

"Before she left, you thought you’d understood music. But really you hadn’t ..." Things That Break You — @dluntz.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/10/28/t...

"After she left without a goodbye, you thought about love, music, death. About how all you could do was echolocate yourself out of grief. " — @dluntz.bsky.social Things That Break You — David Luntz minorliteratures.com/2025/10/28/t...

Have an hallucinatory lyric essay/prose poem about memory, myth, music, and getting wrecked by love @minorliteratures.bsky.social thanks @roughghosts.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/10/28/t...

The balance of the order I made with the gift card my daughter gave me for my birthday. Poetry and prose.

last week @ minor lits ... — Dimitris Lyacos interviewed by Toti O’Brien minorliteratures.com/2025/10/21/e... — Experimental prose from @gabrielflynn.bsky.social (open on desktop or enable desktop view for full effect) minorliteratures.com/2025/10/23/f...

Coming up this week ... — poetic non-fiction from @dluntz.bsky.social — @monalisavitti.bsky.social talks to @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social about his book on Thomas Mann — fiction from Mikra Namani

"After first writing that story, which I’ve rewritten many times, I spent five years studying literature. I wrote many stories where the narrator comes to a realisation without content, an empty epiphany that leaves him unchanged." Faslane — Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social

Today's new arrival. Coming out in North America November 4 from @biblioasis.bsky.social #IcelandicLit

In this violent solitude: Light, Grass, and Letter in April by Inger Christensen, translated by Susanna Nied roughghosts.com/2025/10/24/i...

In this violent solitude: Light, Grass, and Letter in April by Inger Christensen, translated by Susanna Nied roughghosts.com/2025/10/24/i...

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

"I liked the story so much that I wrote a kind of cover version about a boy who takes the train to Scotland to visit the peace camp at Faslane, the home of Britain’s nuclear weapons program." Faslane — Gabriel Flynn minorliteratures.com/2025/10/23/f...

A couple of new @archipelagobooks.bsky.social in the house. One (stay with me) part of my birthday gift card purchase, the other coming in March—new Antoine Volodine.

“Engineers of the Soul”: An Interview with Dimitris Lyacos — Toti O’Brien minorliteratures.com/2025/10/21/e...

Book mail. Next month look for an excellent essay about this, Ava Kavan's first collection under her chosen pen name, at @minorliteratures.bsky.social Three pages into reading the submission I had to stop and search out a copy for myself!

Recently someone posted a book w/ narrow margins. Here's another, but I'm fine with it b/c it has one of the most readable fonts I've ever encountered. And it's filled with stories that can only be described as absurd realist set in Slovakia during and after WWII. @karolinumpress.cuni.cz

This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.

"Trauma Porn, where emotional catharsis is conflated with literary worth; performative vulnerability is miscast as authenticity; therapeutic processing services the reader, and confession becomes a public good ..." The Ruse of Trauma Porn & the Fictional “I” minorliteratures.com/2025/10/19/t...

Latest beef: 'The idea that one’s master’s identity might transcend victimhood, that a person could productively detach and examine “what happened to me” never appears.' The Ruse of Trauma Porn & the Fictional “I” minorliteratures.com/2025/10/19/t...

ICYMI I wrote about a novel that traces how easy it is for one man, a certain type of man, to be drawn toward far right ideology. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: Call Me Stratos by Chrysoula Georgoula, translated by Marianna Avouri roughghosts.com/2025/10/17/i...

Ask for beef, someone's bound to serve some up... Dear editors minorliteratures.com/2025/10/18/d...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: Call Me Stratos by Chrysoula Georgoula, tr. by Marianna Avouri roughghosts.com/2025/10/17/i...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: Call Me Stratos by Chrysoula Georgoula, tr. by Marianna Avouri roughghosts.com/2025/10/17/i...

"Maia loved her dad and Nanna, though. Really loved them [...] Loved them extra. That was how love worked. Would always love them, would always care ..." Deliverywoman — @evawyles.bsky.social @influxpress.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/10/16/d...

Epithalamium, a consortium — rob mclennan minorliteratures.com/2025/10/14/e...

New arrival. I'm really looking forward to this one; it will be out in February. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

discovering Coleridge's Notebooks

Today was cold, with a little snow. On this Thanksgiving weekend I am grateful for the seasonal burst of colour—it will be gone too soon.

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ICYMI I wrote about this unconventional, absurd family saga set in communist Czechoslovakia. @alexzucker.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social If all happy families are alike, each strange family is strange in its own way: Love Letter in Cuneiform by Tomáš Zmeškal roughghosts.com/2025/10/09/i...

“Love Letter in Cuneiform is a novel that challenges and exceeds the norms of a multigenerational family saga at every opportunity. […] its unique energy is sustained in translation with Zucker’s careful, and at times creative, attention to the subtleties and playfulness of Zmeškal’s language.”