Joseph Schreiber

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

The extreme global reaction to hantavirus, likely spread and incubated from a garbage drump in Argentina vs the fact all of Gaza’s water and sanitation system is destroyed, rats bites and droppings everywhere, among a population of over a million. Nothing. Silence.

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death. Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

"I am haunted, and I look it. No one who is being haunted can hide their bones, and mine are readily apparent ..." Haunting Is Just a Reason — Elizabeth Case @MinorLits minorliteratures.com/2026/05/12/hau…

today @MinorLits ... the second in our PLAGIARISM series Haunting Is Just a Reason — Elizabeth Case minorliteratures.com/2026/05/12/hau…

"My voice echoes thinly through the air. While it is making its way around the room I can breathe more easily and I notice the yellow paper sunrays glinting off chalk dust in the air." Haunting Is Just a Reason — Elizabeth Case minorliteratures.com/2026/05/12/hau…

Yesterday, little Mariam Fahs was laid to rest. Sometimes an entire world fits inside the smallest coffin.

@DuncanAStuart @archipelagobks @nyrbclassics @andothertweets Yes, I've read The Limit and Dreaming of Dead People. Her work can be alarming and beautiful. Definitely looking forward to this!

New review copies: Jérôme Lindon by Jean Echenoz due in September from @archipelagobks and Is Beauty Good by Rosalind Belben with an intro by Esther Kinsky(!!!) coming from @nyrbclassics this summer (@andothertweets in UK).

last week @MinorLits ... — the first in our PLAGIARISM series by @attheimax (including an introductory essay by series editor @benlibman) — new fiction from Maria-Irina Popescu links below

Went into the forest this past week for the first time in a month or so and there were more trees down than usual, likely due to the intense winds we had.

She was 12 years old. Yesterday, an Israeli drone targeted her and her father in south Lebanon. The first strike killed her father. She survived. Terrified, wounded, she ran for her life. Then another drone followed her. And killed her too. Damn the whole complicit world.

ICYMI I wrote about a volume of poems composed during the pandemic when, for a moment, it seemed like we might emerge better for the experience. @seagullbooks A jay in the grass is a turning point in history: In a Cabin, in the Woods by Michael Krüger roughghosts.com/2026/05/08/a-j…

¡Es bellísima esta nueva versión de Confortably Numb que hizo Roger Waters para Palestina! Waters se lo envió Yanis Varoufakis, quien lo mostró el 4 de mayo durante el discurso de la gran @FranceskAlbs.

A jay in the grass is a turning point in history: In a Cabin, in the Woods by Michael Krüger, tr by @KarenLeeder1 @seagullbooks roughghosts.com/2026/05/08/a-j…

Israel is now killing so many people in Lebanon so regularly that the media has lost interest. Much like it did in Gaza.

This note was found in the pocket of one of the martyrs. As Mahmoud Darwish said: “We love life whenever we can find a way to it.”

"It’s not the nature of what I’m cleaning that troubles me; I’ve seen it all before. It’s how human it seems ..." Bright Light — Maria-Irina Popescu @MinorLits minorliteratures.com/2026/05/07/bri…

We're celebrating the 165th anniversary of the birth of a true great: Rabindranath Tagore, who was born #onthisday 7 May, in 1861 in Calcutta, India. The first non-European literature laureate, he was awarded the #NobelPrize "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West." Read more: bit.ly/2GgTIs0 #Tagore165

@gregorymconway Congratulations! Look forward to seeing where this leads you.

Thank you to the CBC/CFJ for the incredibly generous fellowship which will allow me to work on Lønningspils related work within CBC this fall.