Alina Stefanescu Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Alina Stefanescu

@Dalai_Mama_ “Diamonds” by Camille Guthrie is also funny and powerful, despite the subject.

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Felix 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

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In November of 1914, Wittgenstein read Emerson's essays... and reading this made me think of @jamesamarcus ... hoping his spring is splendid.

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The 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.

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After 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

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Read @mashagessen for LGBTQ life in Putin’s Russia, @SashaHemon for the borders and heartbreaks, Svetlana Alexievich for social history, Anna Politkovskaya’s interviews, Karen Dawisha on Putin, Vadim Volkov, Mark Galeotti—so many books.

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@si_jacques @_ryanruby_ I'm deeply sorry Nicolas.😔 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

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For in a question like this truth is only to be had by laying together many varieties of error. - Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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I was reading Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time and became fascinated with black holes—hence the vocabulary from physics. I also reread Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Janet Kauffman's Rot ...and incorporated phrases from both.” - Rosmarie Waldrop on "Aging"

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Birmingham literary program to host citywide discussions of Imani Perry’s book ‘South to America’ 🖤 https://t.co/WQvAjrYgpK