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
Joined June 2011
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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… via @MinorLits
And suddenly autumn is over. Sure signs: we had some snow that quickly melted but left a witness, and Georgia has spent the day stretched out against the heat register.
Decided to take advantage of a birthday month discount and order a few books (colour coordinated, ofc).
ICYMI, I wrote about this fine collection of literary and personal essays by Caroline Clark @Blackheraldpres
Poetry as a journey: What Lies Ahead by Caroline Clark roughghosts.com/2026/10/21/p… via @roughghosts
"I tried in vain to remove my gaze from his horrible pink tie, while repeating to myself softly, as the blood beat against my temples sounding like the ocean: no doubt because of the wind, no doubt because of the wind."
–from Jérôme, by Jean-Pierre Martinet, tr. Jacob Siefring
Jérôme [extract] — Jean-Pierre Martinet [tr. Jacob Siefring] minorliteratures.com/2026/10…
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Gerard Exupery.
‘Women Hold Up Half the Sky.’
‘I’ve always wanted to take pictures from the moment my dad helped steady his Rolleiflex in my shakey little hands while I took my first picture. His death greatly influenced why and what I see, and how I photograph it’.
Jérôme [extract] — Jean-Pierre Martinet [tr. Jacob Siefring] minorliteratures.com/2026/10…
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Poetry as a journey: What Lies Ahead by Caroline Clark @Blackheraldpres
roughghosts.com/2026/10/21/p…
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Correction: 53 per cent of those who voted said yes to a series of questions carefully drafted to elicit a yes, after a months-long government-funded hysteria campaign.
Albertans want more control over immigration and limits on newcomers' access to social services nationalpost.com/news/canada…
“After all, dictators are always afraid of poets.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin on Art, Language, Writing, and More bigother.com/2026/10/21/ursu… via @BigOtherMag
Poetry as a journey: What Lies Ahead by Caroline Clark @Blackheraldpres
roughghosts.com/2026/10/21/p…
"He ended up in retail after losing his job in tech when the bubble burst in the late 90s. Drifted through different jobs, did some climbing and camping and somehow washed up on the same retail shores the rest of us were floundering on." — Kent Kosak
Today, at @MinorLits an extract from Kent Kosak's upcoming essay collection, Prose Scraps.
One Last Note for Paul Nervy—Kent Kosak minorliteratures.com/2026/10…
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"Paul wrote notes. He was constantly scribbling on little scraps of paper, notes he fiercely guarded, refusing to show them or explain them to anyone. At least, to any of us ..."
One Last Note for Paul Nervy—Kent Kosak
@MinorLits
minorliteratures.com/2026/10…
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"After John Cage has done four and a half minutes of silence, the task of the avant-garde is not to then do five minutes of silence. That’s kitsch."
at The Auflauf today, an interview with Tom McCarthy
link below
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Please read the following statement for our fallen at the 3rd Canadian Division Support Base Detachment Wainwright in Alberta, posted on behalf of the Anishinabek Nation Veterans Committee here:
ALT Please read the following statement for our fallen at the 3rd Canadian Division Support Base Detachment Wainwright in Alberta, posted on behalf of the Anishinabek Nation Veterans Committee here:
"We had been working together for a couple of years, Paul and I, selling camping gear in a strip mall in northern New Jersey, when I thought, this guy is doomed."
—Kent Kosak
One Last Note for Paul Nervy—Kent Kosak minorliteratures.com/2026/10…
Today, at @MinorLits an extract from Kent Kosak's upcoming essay collection, Prose Scraps.
One Last Note for Paul Nervy—Kent Kosak minorliteratures.com/2026/10…
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ICYMI — last week @MinorLits ...
- @DesperateLit Prize shortlisted fiction from Imogen Clarke
- an interview with The Auflauf
links below 👇
