Nina Perlman
@ninaperlman.bsky.social
told a girl on the subway I loved the cropped sweater/shrug she was wearing and she was thrilled to tell me her mom made it and I hope she texts her mom immediately
June 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
told a girl on the subway I loved the cropped sweater/shrug she was wearing and she was thrilled to tell me her mom made it and I hope she texts her mom immediately
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"To me, writing is an act of listening. I listen, of course, to what I have already written. And then to something unknown, somewhere out there. The writing is this listening, to write is to listen. I don’t plan anything. Writing happens."
—Jon Fosse
—Jon Fosse
Pretty much every sentence in this Jon Fosse Q&A is gold.
(and is basically, just over and over, saying variations of "I don't know, I don't plan, I don't know what any of it means, I just listen and pay attention and write.")
(and is basically, just over and over, saying variations of "I don't know, I don't plan, I don't know what any of it means, I just listen and pay attention and write.")
Jon Fosse on Writing as an Act of Listening
The author discusses his story “Elias.”
www.newyorker.com
June 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"To me, writing is an act of listening. I listen, of course, to what I have already written. And then to something unknown, somewhere out there. The writing is this listening, to write is to listen. I don’t plan anything. Writing happens."
—Jon Fosse
—Jon Fosse
should I get a pair of carsickness glasses so I don’t feel nauseous whenever my uber turns out to be a Tesla or should I just throw up
May 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
should I get a pair of carsickness glasses so I don’t feel nauseous whenever my uber turns out to be a Tesla or should I just throw up
may the different group chats never cross-reference your messages and discover you’ve been workshopping your quips
April 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
may the different group chats never cross-reference your messages and discover you’ve been workshopping your quips
men in suits and ties sprinting next to priceless horses
April 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
men in suits and ties sprinting next to priceless horses
so far least favorite part of corporate life is microsoft outlook and my favorite part of corporate life is that I made emojis of my cat on slack
February 9, 2025 at 5:32 AM
so far least favorite part of corporate life is microsoft outlook and my favorite part of corporate life is that I made emojis of my cat on slack
want to cut up all my art to make books and want to cut up all my books to make art
January 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
want to cut up all my art to make books and want to cut up all my books to make art
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
March 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
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Writing is fine. It's literally the most embarrassing thing on earth to emotionally put yourself on full display for rejection or validation, but it's good. I enjoy it. I find it therapeutic to horrify myself.
December 2, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Writing is fine. It's literally the most embarrassing thing on earth to emotionally put yourself on full display for rejection or validation, but it's good. I enjoy it. I find it therapeutic to horrify myself.
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“Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeling that the story evokes, the questions that rise to your mind, rather than the fictional events described. They should teach you this in school, but they don’t.” —Sigrid Nunez, THE VULNERABLES
November 29, 2024 at 8:30 PM
“Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeling that the story evokes, the questions that rise to your mind, rather than the fictional events described. They should teach you this in school, but they don’t.” —Sigrid Nunez, THE VULNERABLES
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as a writer, it's amazing how deep and intimate my relationship with language is—and yet how difficult i find it to say things to, uh, people, anywhere
November 30, 2024 at 1:39 PM
as a writer, it's amazing how deep and intimate my relationship with language is—and yet how difficult i find it to say things to, uh, people, anywhere
I think about this poem so often that I now also keep my accumulated nail clippers in a wooden bowl
I’m going to pretend that this person was following instructions from the end of this other poem.
November 27, 2024 at 5:46 PM
I think about this poem so often that I now also keep my accumulated nail clippers in a wooden bowl
wandering around my apartment at 3am without my glasses on & got spooked by my own shadow against the wall in my peripheral vision
November 27, 2024 at 8:04 AM
wandering around my apartment at 3am without my glasses on & got spooked by my own shadow against the wall in my peripheral vision
my decades-long commitment to the messy clipped-up piecey bun/swoop bangs forever validated by the girl stepping off the train as I was getting on who shouted “your hair is so cute!” as the doors closed between us
November 22, 2024 at 6:21 PM
my decades-long commitment to the messy clipped-up piecey bun/swoop bangs forever validated by the girl stepping off the train as I was getting on who shouted “your hair is so cute!” as the doors closed between us
thrilled to be a part of the latest issue of DIAGRAM
November 15, 2023 at 9:27 AM
thrilled to be a part of the latest issue of DIAGRAM
In the latest issue of @eldiagram.bsky.social :: an image/text lyric essay about living in New York, pigeons & my pet parakeet, and finding fluidity in structure.
thediagram.com/23_5/perlman...
thediagram.com/23_5/perlman...
November 15, 2023 at 9:25 AM
In the latest issue of @eldiagram.bsky.social :: an image/text lyric essay about living in New York, pigeons & my pet parakeet, and finding fluidity in structure.
thediagram.com/23_5/perlman...
thediagram.com/23_5/perlman...
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Hey there new DIAGRAM issue 23.5: thediagram.com/23_5
November 1, 2023 at 1:45 PM
Hey there new DIAGRAM issue 23.5: thediagram.com/23_5
I’m getting married tomorrow
October 29, 2023 at 5:23 PM
I’m getting married tomorrow
love that I’ll write full paragraphs while at work or riding the subway, scattered between notes app/notebook/emails to myself/the end pages of the book I’m reading and forget them there for months until I finally think to myself “didn’t I write a scene of this happening?” and have to go on a quest
October 7, 2023 at 3:49 PM
love that I’ll write full paragraphs while at work or riding the subway, scattered between notes app/notebook/emails to myself/the end pages of the book I’m reading and forget them there for months until I finally think to myself “didn’t I write a scene of this happening?” and have to go on a quest
It’s a gross day so I’m drinking cinnamon tea and making lentil soup with every warming spice on my spice rack
October 6, 2023 at 2:21 PM
It’s a gross day so I’m drinking cinnamon tea and making lentil soup with every warming spice on my spice rack
at the stage of revisions where I want to cheat on my manuscript with my plans for the next one
October 5, 2023 at 12:30 AM
at the stage of revisions where I want to cheat on my manuscript with my plans for the next one