HeyJaredAmateur Criticism
I write about literature and how it feels to read and write it
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- Aug 14, 2026
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- Jul 6, 2026
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Fear and Self-Loathing in the Second Draft (opens the original)
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Once, I knew a person who I, and others, found annoying. I still tried my best to be courteous to this person, and eventually they came to believe that I liked them, and confided to me that they were starting to wonder whether they were annoying, and that this was why other people seemed not to want to hang out with them. They were mortifyingly correct.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uZPP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A
The Vanderbilt Report Seems Incompatible with Literary Criticism (opens the original)
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What Did You Notice? (opens the original)
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