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.
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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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Another will smash the prison register, Another will smash the doors of the jail.
Another will wipe from our thin shoulders The dust and blood fallen from our necks.
—Péguy
Another will wipe from our thin shoulders The dust and blood fallen from our necks.
—Péguy
December 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Another will smash the prison register, Another will smash the doors of the jail.
Another will wipe from our thin shoulders The dust and blood fallen from our necks.
—Péguy
Another will wipe from our thin shoulders The dust and blood fallen from our necks.
—Péguy
By the time Beethoven's ear trumpet stopped working, the hearing in his right ear was almost completely gone. But he could still hear a music box playing the Fidelio and Cherubini’s overture to Medea. Thus was Medea redeemed by an ear/drum.
November 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
By the time Beethoven's ear trumpet stopped working, the hearing in his right ear was almost completely gone. But he could still hear a music box playing the Fidelio and Cherubini’s overture to Medea. Thus was Medea redeemed by an ear/drum.
An activity possesses trajectory, and, anticipating a form, trajectory anticipates an end.
- Donald Revell in “Better Unsaid: On Poetic Fragments” per the formal energy that arises from a trajectory
- Donald Revell in “Better Unsaid: On Poetic Fragments” per the formal energy that arises from a trajectory
November 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
An activity possesses trajectory, and, anticipating a form, trajectory anticipates an end.
- Donald Revell in “Better Unsaid: On Poetic Fragments” per the formal energy that arises from a trajectory
- Donald Revell in “Better Unsaid: On Poetic Fragments” per the formal energy that arises from a trajectory
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Ne pas oublier Michèle Audin (1954-2025)
Michèle Audin, mathématicienne, historienne, autrice, membre de l'Oulipo, spécialiste de la Commune, femme engagée et passionnée, fille de Maurice Audin, nous a quittés ce matin. En hommage, Diacritik republie un article sur son superbe Oublier Clémence,…
Michèle Audin, mathématicienne, historienne, autrice, membre de l'Oulipo, spécialiste de la Commune, femme engagée et passionnée, fille de Maurice Audin, nous a quittés ce matin. En hommage, Diacritik republie un article sur son superbe Oublier Clémence,…
Ne pas oublier Michèle Audin (1954-2025)
Michèle Audin, mathématicienne, historienne, autrice, membre de l'Oulipo, spécialiste de la Commune, femme engagée et passionnée, fille de Maurice Audin, nous a quittés ce matin. En hommage, Diacritik republie un article sur son superbe Oublier Clémence, paru en 2018. Lire, relire Michèle Audin.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Ne pas oublier Michèle Audin (1954-2025)
Michèle Audin, mathématicienne, historienne, autrice, membre de l'Oulipo, spécialiste de la Commune, femme engagée et passionnée, fille de Maurice Audin, nous a quittés ce matin. En hommage, Diacritik republie un article sur son superbe Oublier Clémence,…
Michèle Audin, mathématicienne, historienne, autrice, membre de l'Oulipo, spécialiste de la Commune, femme engagée et passionnée, fille de Maurice Audin, nous a quittés ce matin. En hommage, Diacritik republie un article sur son superbe Oublier Clémence,…
Michel Auder's "Seduction of Patrick" (1979) starring Gary Indiana and Viva is opening at the O-Townhouse in LA tonight, November 14th as part of the “Savage Men” exhibition. 🖤
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Michel Auder's "Seduction of Patrick" (1979) starring Gary Indiana and Viva is opening at the O-Townhouse in LA tonight, November 14th as part of the “Savage Men” exhibition. 🖤
Walla Walla and Bataille’s solaire. 🙃
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Walla Walla and Bataille’s solaire. 🙃
“I cannot bear the thought of silence, as if you in me could not bear the thought,” wrote Jacques Derrida, in an elegy for his friend, Althusser.
November 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
“I cannot bear the thought of silence, as if you in me could not bear the thought,” wrote Jacques Derrida, in an elegy for his friend, Althusser.
During the Palmer Raids, AG Palmer said 90% of radical blood was "traceable to aliens," a genetic threat whose "sharp tongues of revolutionary heat were licking the altars of churches, leaping into the belfry of the school bell, crawling into the sacred corner of American homes."
November 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
During the Palmer Raids, AG Palmer said 90% of radical blood was "traceable to aliens," a genetic threat whose "sharp tongues of revolutionary heat were licking the altars of churches, leaping into the belfry of the school bell, crawling into the sacred corner of American homes."
We were the couple making a scene in the plaza. The ghost of a man accused me of playing at things insincerely. How can there be a game if the players don’t believe by the rules? I never cared to win. I didn't want a monument or a trophy. Sex is rhetoric.
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Celery Sagas by Alina Stefanescu — The Dodge
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November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We were the couple making a scene in the plaza. The ghost of a man accused me of playing at things insincerely. How can there be a game if the players don’t believe by the rules? I never cared to win. I didn't want a monument or a trophy. Sex is rhetoric.
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Is one sentence enough to insure the person for whose sake it was uttered? There must be some insurance that is not of this world. [...]
I will lie down next to Ivan and say: if you really want I will write for you a book which doesn't yet exist.
- Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina
I will lie down next to Ivan and say: if you really want I will write for you a book which doesn't yet exist.
- Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Is one sentence enough to insure the person for whose sake it was uttered? There must be some insurance that is not of this world. [...]
I will lie down next to Ivan and say: if you really want I will write for you a book which doesn't yet exist.
- Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina
I will lie down next to Ivan and say: if you really want I will write for you a book which doesn't yet exist.
- Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina
Larry Summers is actually *more* evil than the average rich person in this country. What he did to Eastern Europe is unforgettable. As are the hedge-fundies that bloomed under his watch. Orban relied so heavily on these neoliberals in the early days.
Larry Summers is just as evil as anyone else in this country
Stay classy Larry
November 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Larry Summers is actually *more* evil than the average rich person in this country. What he did to Eastern Europe is unforgettable. As are the hedge-fundies that bloomed under his watch. Orban relied so heavily on these neoliberals in the early days.
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Honey, I'm sobbing, yes, literally SOBBING after reading this review of TERRY DACTYL by Trish Bendix in the New York Times Book Review, which engages with the book on so many deep levels, yes, I'm reading it over and over, what a gift, this means everything to me!!!💞💞💞💞💞
This Club Kid Knows How to Survive. The Better Question Is: How to Live?
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November 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Honey, I'm sobbing, yes, literally SOBBING after reading this review of TERRY DACTYL by Trish Bendix in the New York Times Book Review, which engages with the book on so many deep levels, yes, I'm reading it over and over, what a gift, this means everything to me!!!💞💞💞💞💞
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new from above/ground press: The Man, by Benjamin Niespodziany / @neonpajamas.bsky.social ;
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new from above/ground press: The Man, by Benjamin Niespodziany
The Man a sequence of foolish men Benjamin Niespodziany $6 The Man with the Tail When he argued with his doctor it wandered. published in Ot...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
new from above/ground press: The Man, by Benjamin Niespodziany / @neonpajamas.bsky.social ;
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...soon they have occupied it with their glorious proclamations. And the only password they recognize, and how could that word, which even today stands for the future, be anything but Ivan.
It's Ivan. Ivan, again and again.
- Ingeborg Bachmann, MALINA (t. by Philip Boehm)
It's Ivan. Ivan, again and again.
- Ingeborg Bachmann, MALINA (t. by Philip Boehm)
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
...soon they have occupied it with their glorious proclamations. And the only password they recognize, and how could that word, which even today stands for the future, be anything but Ivan.
It's Ivan. Ivan, again and again.
- Ingeborg Bachmann, MALINA (t. by Philip Boehm)
It's Ivan. Ivan, again and again.
- Ingeborg Bachmann, MALINA (t. by Philip Boehm)
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Sophie Golub interviewed artist Caroline Partamian on her creative process.
“The act of listening is collaborative; it’s not a passive thing. There is a sender and a receiver, like on one end of a telephone.”— Caroline Partamian
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“The act of listening is collaborative; it’s not a passive thing. There is a sender and a receiver, like on one end of a telephone.”— Caroline Partamian
tinyurl.com/2wfypx8b
BOMB Magazine
BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Sophie Golub interviewed artist Caroline Partamian on her creative process.
“The act of listening is collaborative; it’s not a passive thing. There is a sender and a receiver, like on one end of a telephone.”— Caroline Partamian
tinyurl.com/2wfypx8b
“The act of listening is collaborative; it’s not a passive thing. There is a sender and a receiver, like on one end of a telephone.”— Caroline Partamian
tinyurl.com/2wfypx8b
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I'd missed this last wk in PW abt university presses. My takeaway: the biggest challenge UPs face right now is not Tr*mp. It's sustaining the peer review process. I say this to authors all the time: Our primary crisis is yours, too, & it's A LABOR CRISIS. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
University Presses Continue Their Missions
Despite pressures from Washington, press directors say they will stay the course while dealing with economic concerns.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I'd missed this last wk in PW abt university presses. My takeaway: the biggest challenge UPs face right now is not Tr*mp. It's sustaining the peer review process. I say this to authors all the time: Our primary crisis is yours, too, & it's A LABOR CRISIS. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Beautiful essay by Becca Rothfeld on Ingeborg Bachmann in @thenation.com.
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The Ghosts of Ingeborg Bachmann
Haunted by a dark past, the poet and novelist tried to explore the limits of language itself.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Beautiful essay by Becca Rothfeld on Ingeborg Bachmann in @thenation.com.
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
A little on Hans Richter's unfinished film, Minotaur, and other non sequiturs or chance events. 🖤
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Wanting a hit. — alina Ştefănescu
Yeah, you wanted the time. But maybe I can't do time. Shit, we both know that's an awful line, but it doesn't make it wrong. — LCD Soundsystem
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November 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
A little on Hans Richter's unfinished film, Minotaur, and other non sequiturs or chance events. 🖤
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/10...
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/10...
breakfast was delicious
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
breakfast was delicious
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So fkn excited to have picked up @joannapocock.bsky.social latest from @after8books.bsky.social this afternoon. Thanks Paris!
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
So fkn excited to have picked up @joannapocock.bsky.social latest from @after8books.bsky.social this afternoon. Thanks Paris!
Kurt ViLe is one of the few musicians who could break every melodic rule and pull off this excruciating repetition unapologetically. 🥹 I respect that sort of intensity in an artist.
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YouTube video by Kurt Vile - Topic
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November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Kurt ViLe is one of the few musicians who could break every melodic rule and pull off this excruciating repetition unapologetically. 🥹 I respect that sort of intensity in an artist.
youtu.be/8ZhhyoXDu4Q?...
youtu.be/8ZhhyoXDu4Q?...