poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
Alina Stefanescu
Every telling has a tailing and that’s the he and she of it.
- James Joyce
Leslie Fiedler has my attention lately.
Help, I accidentally bought that memoir everyone is writing scathing reviews about, yes the scathing reviews got me curious about just how terrible it would be, but somehow in reading the reviews I forgot that it would be comic writing, so now I can't even get past the first page.
An M. getting ready to perform his piece, “To That String” (for piano, viola, and violin) yesterday.
[His middle name is Emerson, and I didn’t at first realize he’d taken the title from Ralph Waldo’s “Self-Reliance” .. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.]
i love how they roll up and wait with their red button sensors seeking vibes
‘Willa Cather’s reader, like her characters, must keep an ear out for the whisper, an eye out for the sign and a hand out for the scrap of paper. Cather has the ability to build the holy object backwards from information.’
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on the novelist.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
