DJ Wolfinsohn
@djwolfinsohn.bsky.social
a writer in austin, tx
poetry & movies
knitting & old radios
debbywolfinsohn.com
Lost Balloon, Maudlin House, HAD, Gone Lawn, Variant Lit, Brawl, Jake, Memoir Mixtapes, Hog River Press, Vestal Review, Roi Fainéant Press, The Engine(Idling 🎉WIGLEAF TOP 50🎉
poetry & movies
knitting & old radios
debbywolfinsohn.com
Lost Balloon, Maudlin House, HAD, Gone Lawn, Variant Lit, Brawl, Jake, Memoir Mixtapes, Hog River Press, Vestal Review, Roi Fainéant Press, The Engine(Idling 🎉WIGLEAF TOP 50🎉
love you Tom
(this one’s a banger, so sneaky, so subversive, so weird, so good. turn it up to 11)
youtu.be/dB2Ff8H7oVo?...
(this one’s a banger, so sneaky, so subversive, so weird, so good. turn it up to 11)
youtu.be/dB2Ff8H7oVo?...
Tom Lehrer - "L-Y"
YouTube video by Edgar Aldrett
youtu.be
July 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
love you Tom
(this one’s a banger, so sneaky, so subversive, so weird, so good. turn it up to 11)
youtu.be/dB2Ff8H7oVo?...
(this one’s a banger, so sneaky, so subversive, so weird, so good. turn it up to 11)
youtu.be/dB2Ff8H7oVo?...
i had forgotten the feeling of putting on a record, sitting down, and listening to it in full 😭
July 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
i had forgotten the feeling of putting on a record, sitting down, and listening to it in full 😭
🤩 I ADORE the engine idling — THE coolest, sparkiest lit mag ever💖✨⭐️the perfect home for my poem - now nominated for best of the net?!! wut!! ⭐️ thank u danielle
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e(i's 2026 BOTN!
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Sharon Denmark, J.L. Moultrie, Daniel Sheen, James Diaz, Christiana Doucette, @dwakaun-known.bsky.social, August Ryan, @djwolfinsohn.bsky.social, & @hannahl1n.bsky.social !
#writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #indiemag #indielit #indiepress #litmag
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Sharon Denmark, J.L. Moultrie, Daniel Sheen, James Diaz, Christiana Doucette, @dwakaun-known.bsky.social, August Ryan, @djwolfinsohn.bsky.social, & @hannahl1n.bsky.social !
#writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #indiemag #indielit #indiepress #litmag
July 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🤩 I ADORE the engine idling — THE coolest, sparkiest lit mag ever💖✨⭐️the perfect home for my poem - now nominated for best of the net?!! wut!! ⭐️ thank u danielle
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
thank you matt 🌙📻
"While we wait, here is what we do: visit graveyards. Pour salt circles. Fall asleep with our radios on, tuned to ghost stations"
Richly-layered, fractured storytelling from @djwolfinsohn.bsky.social picked for this year's #WigleafTop50
lost-balloon.com/2024/10/30/c...
Richly-layered, fractured storytelling from @djwolfinsohn.bsky.social picked for this year's #WigleafTop50
lost-balloon.com/2024/10/30/c...
Curses by DJ Wolfinsohn
Teri gave Amy the worst advice. If you want Joel to notice you, crash your car in front of his house. Now, a Dodge cruises slowly down St. Ann’s Avenue. *** I take a black car uptown. I sit on an e…
lost-balloon.com
July 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
thank you matt 🌙📻
after an 8-month writing/social media break (ok i kinda…gave up!?)
i logged on & saw my story chosen for the wigleaf top 50!? what is this?
✨m✨a✨g✨i✨c✨??
BIG THANKS to @samanito.bsky.social
i logged on & saw my story chosen for the wigleaf top 50!? what is this?
✨m✨a✨g✨i✨c✨??
BIG THANKS to @samanito.bsky.social
new on our mainpage: THE WIGLEAF TOP 50 VERY SHORT FICTIONS 2025 (selecting editor @samanito.bsky.social )
July 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
after an 8-month writing/social media break (ok i kinda…gave up!?)
i logged on & saw my story chosen for the wigleaf top 50!? what is this?
✨m✨a✨g✨i✨c✨??
BIG THANKS to @samanito.bsky.social
i logged on & saw my story chosen for the wigleaf top 50!? what is this?
✨m✨a✨g✨i✨c✨??
BIG THANKS to @samanito.bsky.social
Reposted by DJ Wolfinsohn
Bruno Ganz and Peter Falk in Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire (1987)
May 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Bruno Ganz and Peter Falk in Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire (1987)
dream team // dream theme // 💖🥂 i am so happy to be in this one ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
💋 ANNOUNCEMENT & GIVEAWAY!! 💋
A celebration of indulgence & nostalgia, e(i 5: Trashy Daydreams is now available on our website!
You can find it here: engineidling.net/current !
FREE to read/download/share so have at it! Let's applaud our fabulous contributors!
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A celebration of indulgence & nostalgia, e(i 5: Trashy Daydreams is now available on our website!
You can find it here: engineidling.net/current !
FREE to read/download/share so have at it! Let's applaud our fabulous contributors!
⬇️
January 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
dream team // dream theme // 💖🥂 i am so happy to be in this one ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
we can still go for walks, make stuff with our hands, check out books, watch the billion great old movies that exist, learn to brew good green tea, learn to draw, learn to knit, learn to sing, disconnect a little, it’s ok. it’s all gonna still be here when you get back
January 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
we can still go for walks, make stuff with our hands, check out books, watch the billion great old movies that exist, learn to brew good green tea, learn to draw, learn to knit, learn to sing, disconnect a little, it’s ok. it’s all gonna still be here when you get back
today i will be making peanut soup, knitting with my favorite rough japanese yarn, avoiding the news & reading the amazing collection below
On David Lynch’s birthday, I have compiled all my favorite tribute pieces, social media tributes, older interviews, and other ephemera that have brought me joy and that have given me more to ponder these last few days.
Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/im-not-the...
Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/im-not-the...
January 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
today i will be making peanut soup, knitting with my favorite rough japanese yarn, avoiding the news & reading the amazing collection below
i am training myself
to become a knit-walker!
to become a knit-walker!
January 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
i am training myself
to become a knit-walker!
to become a knit-walker!
i hope to god this is real
January 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
i hope to god this is real
🥧 ☕️ 📺 💔 ✨
January 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
🥧 ☕️ 📺 💔 ✨
i don’t like watching 20 second little bits of shit. give me 4 hours with 1 intermission
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
January 16, 2025 at 6:24 AM
i don’t like watching 20 second little bits of shit. give me 4 hours with 1 intermission
vegan & GF chocolate cupcakes (made with avocado oil!) they are ridiculously good
i 💖🍰 science
i 💖🍰 science
January 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
vegan & GF chocolate cupcakes (made with avocado oil!) they are ridiculously good
i 💖🍰 science
i 💖🍰 science
just watched Jennie Livingston’s BRILLIANT Paris 🔥 Is 🔥 Burning. Had not seen it since it came out. Mind blown anew at the heartbreaking beauty /tragedy / comedy of this masterpiece
a woman wearing sunglasses and a crown is standing in a crowd .
ALT: a woman wearing sunglasses and a crown is standing in a crowd .
media.tenor.com
January 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
just watched Jennie Livingston’s BRILLIANT Paris 🔥 Is 🔥 Burning. Had not seen it since it came out. Mind blown anew at the heartbreaking beauty /tragedy / comedy of this masterpiece
i am stunned by this goodness
Jen Frantz, quickly becoming one of my favorite poets
January 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
i am stunned by this goodness
tbh wasn’t super into seeing a 3 hour western (Once Upon a Time in the West) BUT IT WAS SO DAMN GOOD (and stunning on a BIG SCREEN at austin film society!!) #filmsky
January 6, 2025 at 4:35 AM
tbh wasn’t super into seeing a 3 hour western (Once Upon a Time in the West) BUT IT WAS SO DAMN GOOD (and stunning on a BIG SCREEN at austin film society!!) #filmsky
holidays are alarming in many ways
December 15, 2024 at 6:14 PM
holidays are alarming in many ways
go! go! go!
grab yr coffee & read (& listen)
grab yr coffee & read (& listen)
December 14, 2024 at 3:41 PM
go! go! go!
grab yr coffee & read (& listen)
grab yr coffee & read (& listen)
my B-52s poem is! live! today! 🪐
@memoirmixtapes.bsky.social is the place to find it
(& many other musical gems) 🎶
{don’t sleep on MM} 💥
@memoirmixtapes.bsky.social is the place to find it
(& many other musical gems) 🎶
{don’t sleep on MM} 💥
December 14, 2024 at 3:39 PM
my B-52s poem is! live! today! 🪐
@memoirmixtapes.bsky.social is the place to find it
(& many other musical gems) 🎶
{don’t sleep on MM} 💥
@memoirmixtapes.bsky.social is the place to find it
(& many other musical gems) 🎶
{don’t sleep on MM} 💥
Reposted by DJ Wolfinsohn
For about ten years I've thought about what a Tom Waits TV Christmas special produced in the early 80s would have been like. It's almost real to me. The set is a Depression-era shack he built and a stream of celebrity hobos keep knocking on the door and Tom goes "I wOnDEr WHo tHaT cOuLd bE"
December 13, 2024 at 4:49 PM
For about ten years I've thought about what a Tom Waits TV Christmas special produced in the early 80s would have been like. It's almost real to me. The set is a Depression-era shack he built and a stream of celebrity hobos keep knocking on the door and Tom goes "I wOnDEr WHo tHaT cOuLd bE"
what do you mean dishes & laundry don’t count as exercise
December 13, 2024 at 4:55 PM
what do you mean dishes & laundry don’t count as exercise
WRITERS.
put down the egg nog this is your sign to submit to these lovely people whose office is in a gazebo in a forest under the stars 🌳
put down the egg nog this is your sign to submit to these lovely people whose office is in a gazebo in a forest under the stars 🌳
(Sighs.)
(Looks askance, musses hair.)
I'm sorry, I guess I wasn't actually expecting an audience, this late at night.
(Coffee.)
Well! First, don't go into that barn. It's not ours. Also, we don't like the look of it.
DO go here, to submit work for Gone Lawn 59:
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
(Looks askance, musses hair.)
I'm sorry, I guess I wasn't actually expecting an audience, this late at night.
(Coffee.)
Well! First, don't go into that barn. It's not ours. Also, we don't like the look of it.
DO go here, to submit work for Gone Lawn 59:
gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...
Gone Lawn : Submission Guidelines
gonelawn.net
December 13, 2024 at 3:07 PM
WRITERS.
put down the egg nog this is your sign to submit to these lovely people whose office is in a gazebo in a forest under the stars 🌳
put down the egg nog this is your sign to submit to these lovely people whose office is in a gazebo in a forest under the stars 🌳
🌴 🐋 ✨ 🌈
[judy garland rising from the dead to seek revenge, ya know, just another day in L A] 🌊
[judy garland rising from the dead to seek revenge, ya know, just another day in L A] 🌊
December 13, 2024 at 6:06 AM
🌴 🐋 ✨ 🌈
[judy garland rising from the dead to seek revenge, ya know, just another day in L A] 🌊
[judy garland rising from the dead to seek revenge, ya know, just another day in L A] 🌊