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The State of Me, HarperCollins, 2008 | Shortlisted Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2012 & 2023 | Love books, tulips, jazz, birds, French films | Novella-in-progress | Had ME since 1983 https://www2.societyofauthors.org/soa-member/nasim-marie-jafry/
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Ice sculptures in Maine my step-cousin sent me.

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daffodils

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‘The Italian sociologist Girolamo Sineri claimed that the act of preserving food is ‘anxiety in its purest form’.

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www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Think of this--that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. A.S. Byatt, Possession

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www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...

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Kettles are just too fucking noisy.

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Good morning

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Cut this quote out years ago, before 2008 novel published, still have it, tucked away. Words are Andrew Miller’s - he had described novels as “a collection of anxieties held together, more or less well, more or less interestingly, with the chicken wire of plot”.

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We’re doing a special Front Row next Tuesday on the books of the last 25 years. Nominations please (to [email protected] , not me) for the best/most significant/most influential books of the last quarter century.

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Water

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This should not be normalised

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Dying tulips

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Tulips, their last days

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A reminder of the ever growing list of Indie Publishers on Bluesky Add it to your feeds to see what they’re up to Give me a shout if you want added bsky.app/profile/did:...

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We exist now in a fleeting bloom of life and knowing, one finger-snap of frantic being, and this is it.’ ORBITAL by Samantha Harvey, last year’s Booker Prize winner.

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Tulips

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Amaryllis

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Came across this short story I had published in The Scotsman eleven years ago… ‘A Small Punishment’: www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

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Scary: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Lovely to see amaryllis starting to bloom

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Can’t wait to sow these seeds.

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January

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I come back to this Robert Hass quote often: “It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written”.

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www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

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American writer John Cheever described fiction as: ‘the telling of lies … a sort of sleight-of-hand that displays our deepest feelings about life’.

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This flu has been fucking brutal.

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I have only recently discovered Margaret Watkins, a photographer, socialist, feminist and poet born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1884. After working in New York for many years, she moved to Glasgow where she ended up in 1928 living with her 4 maternal aunts. (1)

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On starting a new novel, Michèle Roberts, NEGATIVE CAPABILITY, page 94

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Same sky, different days

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Over-60s who live apart from partners have better wellbeing, study finds www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6869...

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Willow branches

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Having worked on #Syria full-time since the crisis began nearly 14yrs ago, there really is no understating how remarkable the losses imposed on #Assad's regime have been over the past week. A large reason for this lies with #HTS — a 🧵:

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“These people, unaware, are saving the world.” — Borges, “The Just” (tr. Alastair Reid)

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Leafing through the beautiful book on textiles from Sindh that my dear late mother gifted me five years ago.

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Have always loved advent calendars. Almost impossible to get now, they are all filled with chocolates.

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Pink morning

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Lines and stripes of sky, hills, water from window.

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November

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Remarkable men. Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra. youtu.be/enIicxT4fuM?...

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No Other Land review – an Israeli and Palestinian’s remarkable relationship www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...

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No artist (of any medium) has meant as much to me, for as long, right there in the marrow, as Nick Drake, who died 50 years ago today. Here is 'Place To Be': youtu.be/jvLtyyBRITo?...

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Such joy, Thelonious Monk dancing. youtu.be/XjJYeCYO-hA #jazz

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Nan Goldin at the opening of This Will Not End Well in Berlin: “The ICC is talking about genocide. The UN is talking about genocide. Even the Pope is talking about genocide. Yet we’re not supposed to talk about this as genocide. Are you afraid to hear this, Germany?” www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

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