Alina Stefanescu Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Alina Stefanescu is a poet and book reviewer. poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. romanian-alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
Diamonds
Camille GuthrieAlina Stefanescu@Dalai_Mama_ āDiamondsā by Camille Guthrie is also funny and powerful, despite the subject.
Paperback, 2021
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Bambi
Felix SaltenAlina StefanescuFelix Salten's BAMBI (@nyrbclassics) is devastating. It is *differently* devastating from the film. And it is *more* devastating than the film. It is torrentially devastating. Yes, I am excited that Charlie Tyson is bringing attention to it. https://t.co/Nlc0YKVSkP
Paperback, 2024
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Essays
R. W. EmersonAlina StefanescuIn November of 1914, Wittgenstein read Emerson's essays... and reading this made me think of @jamesamarcus ... hoping his spring is splendid.
Paperback, 2022
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Joan of Arc: And Other Selections From Thomas De Quincy. I. Joan of Arc. Ii. the English Mail Coach (Abridged). Iii. Levana and Our
Thomas de QuinceyAlina Stefanescu"No dignity is perfect which does not at some point ally itself with the mysterious." - Thomas de Quincey, "The English Mail Coach"
Paperback, 2023
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Dissipatio H.G.: The Vanishing
Guido MorselliAlina StefanescuThe bone that Lev Shestov picked with Hegel is present in Guido Morselli's "Dissipatio H. G.: The Vanishing," where linear time and the promise of Progress ends in pile of consumerist junk. Morselli was an avid and wide-ranging reader with anarchist sympathies IMO.
Paperback, 2020
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The Blue Fairy Book: Illustrated
Andrew LangAlina StefanescuAfter an installment of a bedtime chapter's reading from one of Andrew Lang's series instanced by The Blue Fairy Book, David says: "That princess is over-due with her soul. She should give it back so someone else can use it." - Stanley Cavell, in notebook about his son
Paperback, 2015
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Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
Anna PolitkovskayaAlina StefanescuRead @mashagessen for LGBTQ life in Putinās Russia, @SashaHemon for the borders and heartbreaks, Svetlana Alexievich for social history, Anna Politkovskayaās interviews, Karen Dawisha on Putin, Vadim Volkov, Mark Galeottiāso many books.
Paperback, 2007
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Human Acts
Han KangAlina StefanescuWhen a living person looks at a dead person, mightn't the person's soul also be there by its body's side, looking down at its own face? - Han Kang, HUMAN ACTS, an incredible and heartbreaking book translated by Deborah Smith
Paperback, 2017
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Science and Steepleflower: Poetry
Forrest GanderAlina Stefanescu@si_jacques @_ryanruby_ I'm deeply sorry Nicolas.š Coral Bracho wrote a tender, generous poetry book about relating to her own mother with Alzheimers, translated by Forrest Gander (@NewDirections). It honors her mother despite the viciousness of this disease. https://t.co/mdPEiacoCq
Paperback, 1998
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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Imani PerryAlina StefanescuBirmingham literary program to host citywide discussions of Imani Perryās book āSouth to Americaā š¤ https://t.co/WQvAjrYgpK
Paperback, 2023
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