HeyJaredAn Unfinished Story
Book recommendations, women artists, and interviews with late-blooming authors. Because at midlife, our story is still unfinished.
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On perusing my old reading journals, and my favorite books of... 2014? (opens the original)
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Hi friends,Do you keep a reading journal or reading log? I’ve kept one on and off for many years. The other day I was going through some of those journals (avoiding my half-hearted attempt at an office cleanout, which I’d started to avoid revising my own novel), and I noticed that 2014 was an interesting year for novels, with a lot of memorable books and big literary bestsellers. 2014 was a more hopeful and ordinary time, but that year’s novels still feel timely.So today I’m sharing some 2014 bo
Berthe Morisot, Édouard Manet, and how they (might have) affected one another (opens the original)
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Hi, friends. I’m still revising my novel for my agent, so today I’m sharing a post from a while back, about the not quite forgotten, but also not exactly well-remembered artist Berthe Morisot.Last year, I went to see a small show, Manet: A Model Family at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The concept behind the show is the role of family members as muse, as they were for Édouard Manet; he painted his family members over and over. But I came away from the show thinking about another
Summer reading, part two (opens the original)
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Hi friends,And suddenly it’s mid-August, the end of summer around the corner. In New Hampshire, we’re in peak tomato and corn season, and the kitchen counters are covered with tomatoes, despite the blighty look of my tomato plants. So for the moment, it’s still summer, which means more summer reading, under a tree or at the beach. Today I have a few more books to recommend and some summer-reading favorites, all sagas, from summers past. (I’ll link to Summer Reading Part One, my post from earlier
A midsummer interview with Jennifer Louden (opens the original)
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“There are so many ways to be a writer. Find your way and don’t let anybody diss it.” — Jennifer LoudenHi friends, I’m in the middle of revising my novel, so today I’m sharing a piece from 2024, one of my favorites from my occasional Midlife Author interviews. This Q and A is with the delightful Jennifer Louden. For the writers out there who need
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