HeyJaredBehind The Selador
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- Sep 26, 2026
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I Just Wanted To See Someone Die (opens the original)
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This post is the first reported feature of this Substack and, like all features, is/will be behind a paywall. I have plenty of features lined up for the rest of this year, including interviews, boots-on-the-ground reporting, and investigations ranging from 5,000 to 10,000 words. The usual posts will continue as always (Literary Lives, Books Worth Reading, Random Essays, Quotes of Note
Graham Greene’s Ways Of Escape (opens the original)
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Reading Does Not Automatically Equal Intelligence (opens the original)
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Skull Lightning And A Slate-Blue Suicide (opens the original)
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WARNING: This post discusses suicide. Please do not read this if you’re not in the headspace to do so.Quotes of Note is a series wherein I take a singular quote from a book, fiction or non-fiction, and write my thoughts on that quote. These thoughts can amount to author profiles, literary analysis, or personal anecdotes. In short: they can be anything.Every three posts of Quotes of Note are free to read; the other two are behind a paywall. If you’d like to read more about this series, <a href="h
Books Worth Reading, Vol. 8 (opens the original)
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