HeyJaredBooked in Brooklyn
Weekly missives from an author and lifelong bookworm about writing, reading, creativity, parenting, and more!
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The Roundup: September 2026 (opens the original)
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This week, we officially transitioned into autumn…and my daughter decided to launch the Christmas season. On the first day of fall, she came home from school and cued up Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You.” I love Christmas, but September 22nd is a bit early, even for me. I’m a fall baby, a Libra, and I like to soak up the slightly cooler temperatures and darker evenings before we fully descend into the depths of winter. (Aside from Christmas, I am not a depths-of-winter person…) I
Writing inside the sandbox (opens the original)
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Last week, I substitute-taught a creative writing class for teens. This group meets three times a week, and the standard class structure involves a lesson and discussion time on day one, a recap of the lesson and starting to write a short story on day two, and finishing the story and reading all or part of it aloud to the group on day three. I was subbing on day three, so I didn’t have a lot of lecturing to do, but the week’s topic happened to be one I have a personal history with: fanfiction. I
Motivation versus vacation (opens the original)
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Today is September 11th. I’ve lived in New York City since fall 2004, and I know very well how challenging this anniversary is for so many people. Please take care of yourself today. Last week, I wrote about how September—and the whole back-to-school season—can make me want to dive headfirst into something new. I still have that urge…and yet this week, I’ve had trouble drumming up the motivation to find/start said new thing. School finally started yesterday, which means that us NYC pa
That back-to-school feeling (opens the original)
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My daughter starts fourth grade next week. Pause here for a meditation on the unrelenting passage of time... Subscribe nowAll joking aside, I love back-to-school season. I’m not necessarily one of those writers that goes on and on about school supplies—smelling bouquets of freshly sharpened pencils, cracking the spines of blank notebooks—but I do love the feeling of newness in the air. Everything smells like potential. <a class="image
The Roundup: August 2026 (opens the original)
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Dolly Parton died this week. I grew up in East Tennessee, not too far from Dolly’s hometown of Sevierville (the current site of her theme park, Dollywood), and she has always been a larger-than-life figure in my cultural consciousness. Dolly will be remembered not only for her prolific songwriting and performing career—she had the voice of a literal angel!—but also as a consummate philanthropist. Her Imagination Library has sent millions of books to children around the world. Dollywood revitaliz
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