Lora Maslenitsyna
@truelora
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I write about books and movies // phd student in film and media studies & Slavic languages and literatures
San Francisco, CA
Joined August 2019
RT @yuval_abraham: A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries….
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RT @fullstopmag: "I can’t help but feel something cataclysmic taking place as I read Herrera’s writing. ".@truelora reviews Yuri Herrera….
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RT @DAVID_LYNCH: The secret to Real Peace, I will tell you next week if you ask me. All the best to you. Your friend, David.
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RT @PublicBooks: New at PB, @truelora reviews @ok_maksymchuk’s “Still City” (University of Pittsburgh Press), Maria Stepanova’s “Holy Winte….
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Come and see some amazing new documentaries this fall, curated by me!.
Save the date!. 📽️🌍Films at the Whitney’s fall 2024 series, “World Documentaries Today” kicks off on 9/5 at 7 pm w/ #TheMotherOfAllLies, followed by a Q&A w/ director Asmae El Moudir, ahead of its official release in NYC the next day. 📍Alice Cinema (L01) at 320 York St.
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I wrote about seduction, scams, and the always genius and mischievous Kira Muratova.
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RT @wwborders: Now on WWB, @truelora reviews Baqytgul Sarmekova’s collection “To Hell with Poets” (translated from Kazakh by Mirgul Kali, @….
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I wrote about bad poets, bad girls, and bad men for @wwborders .
wordswithoutborders.org
"To Hell with Poets deals with the heavy pressure of a patriarchal system mingling with a now reified commodity culture," writes Lora Maslenitsyna.
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I wrote about what it means to be pregnant, what it means to write, and the labor it takes to answer those questions.
"[Rather than an] answer or guidebook to maternity, or a set of emotionally restorative suggestions, [Ravn's novel] is about the project of writing and the many forms that writing a self can take.".@truelora reviews MY WORK by @OlgaRavn (@NewDirections):
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I wrote about stuff.
"[Arbus] knows how emotional and difficult the caretaker’s task can be. Objects in a museum talk back to us; they make us feel things that we could never expect." @truelora reviews THE CARETAKER by Doon Arbus (@NewDirections):
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I wrote about Mieko Kanai’s Mild Vertigo and it’s gorgeous, sickening grocery lists.
"Reading MILD VERTIGO, I begin to feel light-headed: excited to peek into Natsumi’s thoughts and concerned that I’m being led into a labyrinth with no exit." .@truelora reviews Mieko Kanai's latest novel to be translated into English (@NewDirections):
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RT @footage: The Prelinger Archives Official channel on YouTube is up and running.
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Official Prelinger Archives YouTube channel. We collect "useful media" — advertising, educational, industrial films made to sell products, promote and persuade, train workers and youth and document...
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can't stop thinking about the last movie theater left in New Haven and the gem of a person running it.
newhavenindependent.org
Gilberto Gonzalez, Jr. wants to sell the porno movie theater he owns in the Annex -- but he can't find any buyers. He wants to spruce up the decaying…
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RT @rwgilmoregirls: "Graduate workers at Yale have maintained one of the country’s longest continuous union representation drives against f….
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there’s something about carrying a pink pineapple to a friend’s house during the first snowfall of winter in Connecticut that really drives in the feeling of being in a John Ashbery poem.
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