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.
worldliteraturetoday.org
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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The first page of my essay ‘Nothing Except Nothing: Living With Duras’ Cinema’, published this year in @fallowmedia.bsky.social fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-02
December 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The first page of my essay ‘Nothing Except Nothing: Living With Duras’ Cinema’, published this year in @fallowmedia.bsky.social fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-02
or you etch in light
your firmament spills into the shape of your room
the shape of the poem, of yr body, of yr loves
A woman’s life / a man’s life is an allegory
Dig it
- Diane di Prima
(🖤)
your firmament spills into the shape of your room
the shape of the poem, of yr body, of yr loves
A woman’s life / a man’s life is an allegory
Dig it
- Diane di Prima
(🖤)
December 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
or you etch in light
your firmament spills into the shape of your room
the shape of the poem, of yr body, of yr loves
A woman’s life / a man’s life is an allegory
Dig it
- Diane di Prima
(🖤)
your firmament spills into the shape of your room
the shape of the poem, of yr body, of yr loves
A woman’s life / a man’s life is an allegory
Dig it
- Diane di Prima
(🖤)
Radu wondering which @harpers.bsky.social is his copy.
December 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Radu wondering which @harpers.bsky.social is his copy.
No one guards a useless, pithy pumpkin more ferociously than Radu. So proud of the boy for being more respectable than myself. 🥹
December 21, 2025 at 2:07 AM
No one guards a useless, pithy pumpkin more ferociously than Radu. So proud of the boy for being more respectable than myself. 🥹
Thrilled by bookmail that includes Tim Carpunter on the saint day of Genet.
December 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Thrilled by bookmail that includes Tim Carpunter on the saint day of Genet.
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Fabulous list, natch. A lot of these are in stock at @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social , just sayin…
Well I made a list of books I couldn't forget this year... and left a few off (which means I will open the new year with another list! like a dog! ) nevertheless I'm leaving this here for those who love books and living like dawgs in the mind of Kafka!
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
2025 in 99 books. — alina Ştefănescu
Regardez-moi bien! Je suis idiot, je suis un farceur, je suis un fumiste. Regardez-moi bien! Je suis laid, mon visage n’a pas d’expression, je suis petit. Je suis comme vous tous!’ — Tristan Tzara, ...
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December 20, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Fabulous list, natch. A lot of these are in stock at @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social , just sayin…
An elegant environment is one where everyone’s opinion is shaped by the opinion of others. If it is shaped by the opposite of others’ opinions, then it is a literary environment.
- Marcel Proust, “Snobs”
- Marcel Proust, “Snobs”
December 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
An elegant environment is one where everyone’s opinion is shaped by the opinion of others. If it is shaped by the opposite of others’ opinions, then it is a literary environment.
- Marcel Proust, “Snobs”
- Marcel Proust, “Snobs”
Well I made a list of books I couldn't forget this year... and left a few off (which means I will open the new year with another list! like a dog! ) nevertheless I'm leaving this here for those who love books and living like dawgs in the mind of Kafka!
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
2025 in 99 books. — alina Ştefănescu
Regardez-moi bien! Je suis idiot, je suis un farceur, je suis un fumiste. Regardez-moi bien! Je suis laid, mon visage n’a pas d’expression, je suis petit. Je suis comme vous tous!’ — Tristan Tzara, ...
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Well I made a list of books I couldn't forget this year... and left a few off (which means I will open the new year with another list! like a dog! ) nevertheless I'm leaving this here for those who love books and living like dawgs in the mind of Kafka!
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
The best way to ride the unthinkable is by staring the snake in the eye and saying, "I'll raise you a sky for that apple." Congrats to Laura for what must surely have been the sublime of adrenaline.
"Laura Crane, a 30-year-old surfer from Devon, hopes she has made it into the record books after potentially riding the biggest wave ever surfed by a woman."
"Crane took on the wave at the Nazare Big Wave Challenge in Portugal on Saturday."
"Crane took on the wave at the Nazare Big Wave Challenge in Portugal on Saturday."
Surfing: The 'element of fear' as British woman takes on monster wave
Laura Crane, a 30-year-old from Devon, hopes to have broken a world record for the biggest wave ever surfed by a woman.
www.bbc.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The best way to ride the unthinkable is by staring the snake in the eye and saying, "I'll raise you a sky for that apple." Congrats to Laura for what must surely have been the sublime of adrenaline.
I read this piece and felt as Jeff did on the new journalism. And, to be completly honest, I love reading Jed Perl but he got Lauren Oyler and T. J. Clark completely wrong in this. It didn't feel like an earnest reckoning with their work.
Maybe worth adding that this grumble was provoked by disagreement with the margins of Jed Perl’s nonetheless excellent essay on Becca Rothfeld, Andrea Long Chu, & TJ Clark. It’s his misunderstanding of new journalism that grates. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
December 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I read this piece and felt as Jeff did on the new journalism. And, to be completly honest, I love reading Jed Perl but he got Lauren Oyler and T. J. Clark completely wrong in this. It didn't feel like an earnest reckoning with their work.
‘Regardez-moi bien! Je suis idiot, je suis un farceur, je suis un fumiste. Regardez-moi bien! Je suis laid, mon visage n’a pas d’expression, je suis petit. Je suis comme vous tous!’
- Tristan Tzara in 1920, to the "tall men" in the audience, working their "greatness" aesthetic
- Tristan Tzara in 1920, to the "tall men" in the audience, working their "greatness" aesthetic
December 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
‘Regardez-moi bien! Je suis idiot, je suis un farceur, je suis un fumiste. Regardez-moi bien! Je suis laid, mon visage n’a pas d’expression, je suis petit. Je suis comme vous tous!’
- Tristan Tzara in 1920, to the "tall men" in the audience, working their "greatness" aesthetic
- Tristan Tzara in 1920, to the "tall men" in the audience, working their "greatness" aesthetic
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Ah good, the Christmas presents I ordered (for me) have arrived @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Ah good, the Christmas presents I ordered (for me) have arrived @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
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I have a new poem up at Sublunary Review today! Many thanks to Ruslan Garrey and Dustin King.
www.sublunaryreview.com/home/i-found...
www.sublunaryreview.com/home/i-found...
I found a toybox full of bees — Sublunary Review
A poem by Lee Potts
www.sublunaryreview.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Radu doesn’t believe in boundaries or genre.
December 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Radu doesn’t believe in boundaries or genre.
Sending love to all who are writing desperately desperately — and thinking about Victor Serge again.
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The Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way (Official Video)
YouTube video by PsychedelicFursVEVO
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December 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Sending love to all who are writing desperately desperately — and thinking about Victor Serge again.
youtu.be/LGD9i718kBU?...
youtu.be/LGD9i718kBU?...
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rain, music, bassists, and a tribute to one of Birmingham’s music legends who passed away
December 19, 2025 at 3:50 AM
rain, music, bassists, and a tribute to one of Birmingham’s music legends who passed away
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it's incredibly lovely to see that CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY is on the year-end list for @publicbooks.bsky.social not once but TWICE!!
thank you to @njdames.bsky.social and @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy!!
and among such amazing books!!!
www.publicbooks.org/public-picks...
thank you to @njdames.bsky.social and @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy!!
and among such amazing books!!!
www.publicbooks.org/public-picks...
Public Picks 2025 - Public Books
What were the books of 2025 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us? For this, the 13th-annual edition of Public Picks, section editors for Global Black
www.publicbooks.org
December 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
it's incredibly lovely to see that CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY is on the year-end list for @publicbooks.bsky.social not once but TWICE!!
thank you to @njdames.bsky.social and @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy!!
and among such amazing books!!!
www.publicbooks.org/public-picks...
thank you to @njdames.bsky.social and @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy!!
and among such amazing books!!!
www.publicbooks.org/public-picks...
Happiness Happiness they said
his mouth is the sister of my mouth
- Benjamin Péret, "My Hand in the Beer"
A poem that Péret dedicated to Jacques Prévert.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
his mouth is the sister of my mouth
- Benjamin Péret, "My Hand in the Beer"
A poem that Péret dedicated to Jacques Prévert.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
An open letter. — alina Ştefănescu
If the Marne throws itself in the Seine it’s because I won the Marne If there’s wine in Champagne it’s because I pissed there I threw my gun in the air but the bullets spit in my face that’ show I ...
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December 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Happiness Happiness they said
his mouth is the sister of my mouth
- Benjamin Péret, "My Hand in the Beer"
A poem that Péret dedicated to Jacques Prévert.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
his mouth is the sister of my mouth
- Benjamin Péret, "My Hand in the Beer"
A poem that Péret dedicated to Jacques Prévert.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
An extraordinary book about Algeria, France, “citizenship,” and faithfulness. May Fernand Iveton’s name never be forgotten.
@versobooks.bsky.social
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@versobooks.bsky.social
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"The silence of the state" — alina Ştefănescu
Yes I miss the kiss of treachery — The Cure, “Disintegration” Then the cock crowed This morning They dared to murder you. In the fortress of our bodies May our ideal live on Mingled w...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
An extraordinary book about Algeria, France, “citizenship,” and faithfulness. May Fernand Iveton’s name never be forgotten.
@versobooks.bsky.social
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
@versobooks.bsky.social
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...
Disintegration (2010 Remaster)
YouTube video by The Cure - Topic
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December 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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“This morning I was writing—the words were just flowing and doing their thing—then I had a zoom meeting and the words died. They are gone. Such is the writing life with its daily graves.”
-- Alina Stefanescu
-- Alina Stefanescu
December 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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