Nasim Marie Jafry
@nmjk.bsky.social
The State of Me, HarperCollins, 2008 | Shortlisted Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2012 & 2023 | Love jazz, tulips, birds, French films | Novella-in-progress | Had ME since 1983 https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/nasim-marie-jafry/
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Nasim Marie Jafry
@nmjk.bsky.social
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Temporalities in Nasim Marie Jafry’s The State of Me
Introduction Nasim Marie Jafry’s The State of Me (2008) is a semi-fictional reimagining of the author’s own life, through protagonist, Helen, of living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) in late-t...
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Essay from 2024 in bilingual academic journal Etudes Ecossaises on my autobiographical novel The State of Me (2008) by PhD researcher Laura MacDonald at Strathclyde University.
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First iris is out.
February 10, 2026 at 12:45 PM
First iris is out.
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We've lost the great Allan Massie. An absolute giant of Scottish literature and journalism, and an inspirational, kind and generous man, too. I think his son @alexmassie.bsky.social is only sporadically on Bluesky, but he has written a beautiful obituary. alexmassie.substack.com/p/allan-mass...
Allan Massie, 1938-2026
Father died this afternoon.
alexmassie.substack.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:35 PM
We've lost the great Allan Massie. An absolute giant of Scottish literature and journalism, and an inspirational, kind and generous man, too. I think his son @alexmassie.bsky.social is only sporadically on Bluesky, but he has written a beautiful obituary. alexmassie.substack.com/p/allan-mass...
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The river was such a deep dark blue today.
February 3, 2026 at 9:46 PM
The river was such a deep dark blue today.
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Tiger in the Jungle by Franz Marc, 1912
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137375
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137375
February 3, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Tiger in the Jungle by Franz Marc, 1912
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137375
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137375
Poignancy of bag blown against fence. X
February 2, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Poignancy of bag blown against fence. X
‘And yet our behaviour did not seem especially strange, people behave with such conscious and unconscious dishonesty all the time.’ INTIMACIES, Katie Kitamura.
January 27, 2026 at 9:59 AM
‘And yet our behaviour did not seem especially strange, people behave with such conscious and unconscious dishonesty all the time.’ INTIMACIES, Katie Kitamura.
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Just leaving this here from @joanwalsh.bsky.social on the Pretti execution in case you have the heart to read.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Alex Pretti Was a Good Man at a Time of Great Evil
The 37-year-old ICU nurse was killed helping another ICE victim. We must honor his sacrifice.
www.thenation.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Just leaving this here from @joanwalsh.bsky.social on the Pretti execution in case you have the heart to read.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Matisse ‘Jazz’ calendar.
January 25, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Matisse ‘Jazz’ calendar.
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Northern Lights over Greenland last night
January 21, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Northern Lights over Greenland last night
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The best way of describing someone who’s all talk and no action that I’ve ever heard in the UK, by far, is “they’re all wardrobe and no Narnia.”
* read on for fun ways of saying “all talk and no action” in other languages (a thread)
* read on for fun ways of saying “all talk and no action” in other languages (a thread)
January 22, 2026 at 12:44 PM
The best way of describing someone who’s all talk and no action that I’ve ever heard in the UK, by far, is “they’re all wardrobe and no Narnia.”
* read on for fun ways of saying “all talk and no action” in other languages (a thread)
* read on for fun ways of saying “all talk and no action” in other languages (a thread)
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Trying to cheer myself up on a dismal day: there is an hour and six minutes more daylight today than on the solstice.
January 22, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Trying to cheer myself up on a dismal day: there is an hour and six minutes more daylight today than on the solstice.
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In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies.
I have translated some of the highlights
I have translated some of the highlights
January 20, 2026 at 12:30 AM
In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies.
I have translated some of the highlights
I have translated some of the highlights
Here in Greenland we are scared, but certain of one thing: our home is not for sale | Malu Rosing www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here in Greenland we are scared, but certain of one thing: our home is not for sale | Malu Rosing
A summit between Greenland, Denmark and Washington has done nothing to calm our fears as the US steps up its efforts to take control of my country, says Greenlandic writer Malu Rosing
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Here in Greenland we are scared, but certain of one thing: our home is not for sale | Malu Rosing www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Greenland is not for sale. www.facebook.com/reel/1451103...
799K views · 27K reactions | Så let bliver det heller ikke! | Tomsen
Så let bliver det heller ikke!
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January 18, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Greenland is not for sale. www.facebook.com/reel/1451103...
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Multi-functional Living Unit by Verner Panton (1966)
July 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Multi-functional Living Unit by Verner Panton (1966)
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the zionists don't like Louise Adler because she is a woman of deep intellect and integrity.
she sees through the bullshit and cuts to chase
"Joe McCarthy would be cheering on the inheritors of his tactics."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
she sees through the bullshit and cuts to chase
"Joe McCarthy would be cheering on the inheritors of his tactics."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler
Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:13 PM
the zionists don't like Louise Adler because she is a woman of deep intellect and integrity.
she sees through the bullshit and cuts to chase
"Joe McCarthy would be cheering on the inheritors of his tactics."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
she sees through the bullshit and cuts to chase
"Joe McCarthy would be cheering on the inheritors of his tactics."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I've heard that Daniyal Mueenuddin's This Is Where the Serpent Lives is *extraordinary* & Kenan Orhan has been on my Must Read list for a while, but so many exciting-sounding debuts here - hooray for genius translator & Good Egg Polly Barton in partic www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
‘Like Kafka by way of Pedro Almodóvar’: 10 debut novels to look out for in 2026
A Pulitzer finalist is among the first-time novelists, in tales of love, a surreal prison, teen murder and a tradwife
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I've heard that Daniyal Mueenuddin's This Is Where the Serpent Lives is *extraordinary* & Kenan Orhan has been on my Must Read list for a while, but so many exciting-sounding debuts here - hooray for genius translator & Good Egg Polly Barton in partic www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Am supposed to be buying no
more books but will make an exception for this! Daniyal Mueenuddin’s ‘A Spoiled Man', one of best/saddest short stories I've ever read. Made me cry.
more books but will make an exception for this! Daniyal Mueenuddin’s ‘A Spoiled Man', one of best/saddest short stories I've ever read. Made me cry.
January 9, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Am supposed to be buying no
more books but will make an exception for this! Daniyal Mueenuddin’s ‘A Spoiled Man', one of best/saddest short stories I've ever read. Made me cry.
more books but will make an exception for this! Daniyal Mueenuddin’s ‘A Spoiled Man', one of best/saddest short stories I've ever read. Made me cry.
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An oft-neglected format in commercial publishing, the novella offers the interior world of a novel with the added advantage of brevity.
11 Transportive Novellas You Can Read in One Sitting - Electric Literature
Start your reading year off right with some of the best short novels from the last decade
buff.ly
January 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
An oft-neglected format in commercial publishing, the novella offers the interior world of a novel with the added advantage of brevity.
Essay from 2024 in bilingual academic journal Etudes Ecossaises on my autobiographical novel The State of Me (2008) by PhD researcher Laura MacDonald at Strathclyde University.
journals.openedition.org/etudesecossa...
journals.openedition.org/etudesecossa...
Temporalities in Nasim Marie Jafry’s The State of Me
Introduction Nasim Marie Jafry’s The State of Me (2008) is a semi-fictional reimagining of the author’s own life, through protagonist, Helen, of living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) in late-t...
journals.openedition.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Essay from 2024 in bilingual academic journal Etudes Ecossaises on my autobiographical novel The State of Me (2008) by PhD researcher Laura MacDonald at Strathclyde University.
journals.openedition.org/etudesecossa...
journals.openedition.org/etudesecossa...
Temporalities in Nasim Marie Jafry’s The State of Me
Introduction Nasim Marie Jafry’s The State of Me (2008) is a semi-fictional reimagining of the author’s own life, through protagonist, Helen, of living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) in late-t...
journals.openedition.org
January 8, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Essay from 2024 in bilingual academic journal Etudes Ecossaises on my autobiographical novel The State of Me (2008) by PhD researcher Laura MacDonald at Strathclyde University.
journals.openedition.org/etudesecossa...
journals.openedition.org/etudesecossa...