Alina Stefanescu
@alinaetc.bsky.social
poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
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My Heresies by Alina Stefanescu
Sarabande Books. 2025. 118 pages.
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Grateful beyond words to Candice Daquin for reviewing my heresies for @worldlittoday.bsky.social, and to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social for publishing the book itself and to @kristenmiller.bsky.social for everything that holds it together. 🖤
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This is out in January and still would be grateful if anyone wants to pitch a review or interview for it!
I know everything is trash but books are still good. My book is up for pre-order and id be grateful if you want to read it 🥺 will link to a few places in thread
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This is out in January and still would be grateful if anyone wants to pitch a review or interview for it!
Or like it said at the end of a labor song I liked a lot when I was a kid: what I mean is, take it easy, but take it.
- Charles Mingus
- Charles Mingus
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Or like it said at the end of a labor song I liked a lot when I was a kid: what I mean is, take it easy, but take it.
- Charles Mingus
- Charles Mingus
🖤
This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🖤
Imagine dedicating your life to art—writing, painting, composing, whatever—and then you get online and some pro AI asshole is like, “If you hate AI you hate art.” Just…no. Shut the fuck up and go sit on a cactus.
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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look, when the legendary City Lights asks to record a conversation about close reading, you respond “yes, I’ll hide upstairs in a room in my parents‘ house, put on a clean shirt, and talk a lot with my hands!!!”
join @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , Yael Segalovitz, @samantharhill.bsky.social, and me!
join @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , Yael Segalovitz, @samantharhill.bsky.social, and me!
City Lights has long been a beacon of bookishness for me. It was a thrill to do CITY LIGHTS LIVE!: a conversation about close reading with Yael Segalovitz and my co-editor on Close Reading for the 21C, @johannawinant.bsky.social moderated by @samantharhill.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehZ0...
CITY LIGHTS LIVE! Close Reading Today - Celebrating University Press Week 2025
YouTube video by CityLightsBooks
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November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
look, when the legendary City Lights asks to record a conversation about close reading, you respond “yes, I’ll hide upstairs in a room in my parents‘ house, put on a clean shirt, and talk a lot with my hands!!!”
join @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , Yael Segalovitz, @samantharhill.bsky.social, and me!
join @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , Yael Segalovitz, @samantharhill.bsky.social, and me!
This transformation of an experience into language, this possibility of a relationship between our sensibility and a world that reduces it to nothing, can today be seen as the most perfect example in French contemporary writing of what literature can be.
- Georges Perec on Robert Antelme
- Georges Perec on Robert Antelme
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This transformation of an experience into language, this possibility of a relationship between our sensibility and a world that reduces it to nothing, can today be seen as the most perfect example in French contemporary writing of what literature can be.
- Georges Perec on Robert Antelme
- Georges Perec on Robert Antelme
Some people … hate happy endings. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Deer should not jam. The avalanche, stopping in its tracks, a few feet above the cowering in village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically…
- Vladimir Nabokov, PNIN
- Vladimir Nabokov, PNIN
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Some people … hate happy endings. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Deer should not jam. The avalanche, stopping in its tracks, a few feet above the cowering in village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically…
- Vladimir Nabokov, PNIN
- Vladimir Nabokov, PNIN
An extraordinary issue. Still can’t believe i get to be part of this. 🥹 You will be blown away by these poems. ❤️
Looking beyond to 2026—!—and grateful to be working with the one and only @alinaetc.bsky.social as guest poetry editor for Turkoslavia's fifth.
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
An extraordinary issue. Still can’t believe i get to be part of this. 🥹 You will be blown away by these poems. ❤️
Shane Kowalski's writing always brightens my day. 🖤
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Shane Kowalski's writing always brightens my day. 🖤
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“I must break the language to tell it myself…” Donna Vorreyer
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“I must break the language to tell it myself…” Donna Vorreyer
Wonderful thread. Would add that Jenny Erpenbeck's most recent book attempts to speak into this space with its final cinematic fade-out, but I also think that the "author fade" might be overworked?
What books have the most powerful/shocking/affective single pages?
Never recovering from this page
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Wonderful thread. Would add that Jenny Erpenbeck's most recent book attempts to speak into this space with its final cinematic fade-out, but I also think that the "author fade" might be overworked?
Grateful to Mary for adding this black square to my working collection. On that note, this essay by Andrew Spira is wonderful.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Grateful to Mary for adding this black square to my working collection. On that note, this essay by Andrew Spira is wonderful.
publicdomainreview.org/essay/black-...
publicdomainreview.org/essay/black-...
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We are at it again! Myself & the wonderful @rcolesworthy.bsky.social😍
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
2024 Literary Studies Book and Journal Article List
A companion list for lit studies scholars.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We are at it again! Myself & the wonderful @rcolesworthy.bsky.social😍
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
With you in the margins, Trevor. :)
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
With you in the margins, Trevor. :)
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Sunday afternoon is one of the main chore times in our house, and I've just had to coin the term "laundry priapism" for a pile that, despite incessant folding, will not go down.
November 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Sunday afternoon is one of the main chore times in our house, and I've just had to coin the term "laundry priapism" for a pile that, despite incessant folding, will not go down.
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RIP Baudrillard you would have loved this shit
New uncanny valley unlocked: inflatable corn maze for urban fall fests.
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
RIP Baudrillard you would have loved this shit
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Truly a week of wonders. Congratulations, Joyelle (read her book Death Styles).
Notre Dame professor and poet Joyelle McSweeney is the newest 'Jeopardy!' champion. See the Nov. 3 Final Jeopardy
South Bend native Joyelle McSweeney is the latest "Jeopardy!' champion. Here's what to know.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Truly a week of wonders. Congratulations, Joyelle (read her book Death Styles).
Some of my favorite covers on this planet have been designed by @mrwojorising.bsky.social
2nd awesome book mail day in a row! Sometimes I do a weird cover design and I feel like Marty McFly at the end of Back to the Future minus the song stealing, but @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social and Helen and Ilya were totally up for it.
November 9, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Some of my favorite covers on this planet have been designed by @mrwojorising.bsky.social
The perfect brushstrokes of this poem by Elizabeth Willis.
November 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
The perfect brushstrokes of this poem by Elizabeth Willis.
I sometimes think of my kind of autobiographical writing as spider's work, as pulling big glistening web out of one's very body. . .
— Edmund White, The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir
— Edmund White, The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I sometimes think of my kind of autobiographical writing as spider's work, as pulling big glistening web out of one's very body. . .
— Edmund White, The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir
— Edmund White, The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir
Thank you to the Piggly Wiggly parking lot for hosting my sad thoughts on too much Kierkegaard and a rainy Friday and the intractable parts of life that are not literature. 🖤
November 8, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Thank you to the Piggly Wiggly parking lot for hosting my sad thoughts on too much Kierkegaard and a rainy Friday and the intractable parts of life that are not literature. 🖤
Radu taking Bataille’s side on this.
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Radu taking Bataille’s side on this.
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Lit mag friends: I have a couple of undergrads who would be amazing readers for your journal. And one is looking for a summer internship, specifically (for grad hours, unpaid).
Anyone have a spot to offer?
Anyone have a spot to offer?
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Lit mag friends: I have a couple of undergrads who would be amazing readers for your journal. And one is looking for a summer internship, specifically (for grad hours, unpaid).
Anyone have a spot to offer?
Anyone have a spot to offer?
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"Why do you say
I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand
of an author I know like a lover though they died
years before I was born?"
-- @catemarvin.bsky.social, "The Death of the Humanities"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand
of an author I know like a lover though they died
years before I was born?"
-- @catemarvin.bsky.social, "The Death of the Humanities"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
The Death of the Humanities
Why do you say I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand of an author I know like a lover though they died years before I was born?
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"Why do you say
I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand
of an author I know like a lover though they died
years before I was born?"
-- @catemarvin.bsky.social, "The Death of the Humanities"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
I’m dying when I am reading, holding the hand
of an author I know like a lover though they died
years before I was born?"
-- @catemarvin.bsky.social, "The Death of the Humanities"
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Now Ovid is weeping. Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing. In his spare time he is teaching himself the local language (Getic) in order to compose in it an epic poem no one will ever read.
- Anne Carson, "On Ovid"
- Anne Carson, "On Ovid"
November 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Now Ovid is weeping. Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing. In his spare time he is teaching himself the local language (Getic) in order to compose in it an epic poem no one will ever read.
- Anne Carson, "On Ovid"
- Anne Carson, "On Ovid"