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Sam Rasnake

@samrasnake.bsky.social

Scribbler of words... Fallen Leaves (Ballerini Book Press, forthcoming), Like a Thread to Follow (Cyberwit), Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press), World within the World (Cyberwit), Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press).

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Sam Rasnake@samrasnake.bsky.social · 7h ago

20 favorite silent films 17: Un chien Andalou (1928), Luis Buñuel, dir.; written by Buñuel and Salvador Dali A film that was both praised and banned. A strange work. Surreal. Lacking any logic. This approach was perfect for Buñuel and Dali. It’s an unforgettable view. I’m a huge fan of Buñuel.

20 favorite silent films 17: Un chien Andalou (1928), Luis Buñuel, dir.; written by Buñuel and Salvador Dali A film that was both praised and banned. A strange work. Surreal. Lacking any logic. This approach was perfect for Buñuel and Dali. It’s an unforgettable view. I’m a huge fan of Buñuel.20 favorite silent films 17: Un chien Andalou (1928), Luis Buñuel, dir.; written by Buñuel and Salvador Dali A film that was both praised and banned. A strange work. Surreal. Lacking any logic. This approach was perfect for Buñuel and Dali. It’s an unforgettable view. I’m a huge fan of Buñuel.
Alina Stefanescu@alinaetc.bsky.social · 15h ago

"I have no idea whether it will turn out and, above all, when I will be finished with it. Perhaps never. But if it does work out— may I dedicate it to you?" - Hannah to Martin, 20 March 1971

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Eunoia Review@eunoiareview.bsky.social · 10h ago

Dear Deer, I hit you already-dead, soft speedbump, jolting as flesh spewed onto my windshield like hail. I had been in my own fantasies of being touched by the vegetarian boy and his large, muscular hands. His guitar playing hands. His voice over the strung out reverberation of my car speakers,…

Dear Deer,

I hit you already-dead, soft speedbump, jolting as flesh spewed onto my windshield like hail. I had been in my own fantasies of being touched by the vegetarian boy and his large, muscular hands. His guitar playing hands. His voice over the strung out reverberation of my car speakers, cluttered in tin cans and CDs. Trash everywhere. Rotting carcass of a plum that had been eaten…

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Stone Circle Review@stonecirclereview.bsky.social · yesterday

I’ve always felt strongly that a writer shouldn’t be engaged with other writers, or with people who make books, or even with people who read them. I think the farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources. -- Nelson Algren

Sam Rasnake@samrasnake.bsky.social · yesterday

20 favorite silent films... 18: Battleship Potemkin (1925), Sergei Eisenstein, dir. Eisenstein, “a filmmaker and theorist whose legacy can still be felt today” (BFI), created one of the most important works in the history of film. Potemkin’s massacre on the Odessa Steps is legendary.

20 favorite silent films... 18: Battleship Potemkin (1925), Sergei Eisenstein, dir. Eisenstein, “a filmmaker and theorist whose legacy can still be felt today” (BFI), created one of the most important works in the history of film. Potemkin’s massacre on the Odessa Steps is legendary.
Dan Crawley@danbillyc.bsky.social · yesterday

"When it comes to what we send, more and more nowadays, I come back to the question 'what makes your writing unique?'" So many brilliant insights in this craft article by @mattkendrick.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Matt Kendrick@mattkendrick.bsky.social · 2d ago

My #CraftArticle for August is a reflection of my thoughts from doing the @welkinpress.bsky.social Genre Prize longlisting. What makes a piece a no, what to think about to turn it into a yes: prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/pick-me-pi...

Alina Stefanescu@alinaetc.bsky.social · yesterday

“Narrative, far from being merely a form of discourse that can be filled with different contents, real or imaginary as the case may be, already possesses a content prior to any given actualization of it in speech or writing.” - H. White, THE CONTENT OF THE FORM

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Eunoia Review@eunoiareview.bsky.social · yesterday

Red Knots It was Wednesday morning in the early cracking of summer. I lay in bed damp with sweat, in a private room on the second floor of a two-story house on the edge of town near the shallow portion of the river. It could almost vanish in the row of houses, each in varying degrees of disarray.…

Red Knots

It was Wednesday morning in the early cracking of summer. I lay in bed damp with sweat, in a private room on the second floor of a two-story house on the edge of town near the shallow portion of the river. It could almost vanish in the row of houses, each in varying degrees of disarray. A few missing boards here, a porch drifting down at an acute angle, peeling paint, and cracked brick, its dusty rust color muted by years of exhaust.

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Stone Circle Review@stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 2d ago

His [Robert Frost] double vision of metaphor alone—calling it the foundation of all understanding and at the same time counting on it to fail (“Every metaphor breaks down”)—gives a nicely mystical crack to his poetical systems. -- Kay Ryan, Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose

Sam Rasnake@samrasnake.bsky.social · 2d ago

20 favorite silent films... 19: Pandora’s Box (1929), GW Pabst, dir. A compelling performance by Louise Brooks. “The great art of films does not consist in descriptive movement of face and body, but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.” LB Pabst, film

20 favorite silent films... 19: Pandora’s Box (1929), GW Pabst, dir. A compelling performance by Louise Brooks. “The great art of films does not consist in descriptive movement of face and body, but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.” LB Pabst, film20 favorite silent films... 19: Pandora’s Box (1929), GW Pabst, dir. A compelling performance by Louise Brooks. “The great art of films does not consist in descriptive movement of face and body, but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.” LB Pabst, film