HeyJaredBooks, Words, & Wanderers
Writing, reading, and wandering, one dispatch at a time, with essays, updates, and reflections from Jeremy Bradley-Silverio Donato on life at the road’s edge and the writer’s desk.
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From the Third Floor Looking Down (opens the original)
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This was my third time on Capri and the first time I arrived without much of a to-do list. I had four days, a hotel room with a balcony three floors above the town, and a paperback I had already read. The agenda was to observe.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" heig
Books That Won't Hurry (opens the original)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray sat on my desk (and occasionally in my hands) for three weeks in July, and I am not yet halfway through it. In the meantime, I’ve picked up Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend.Summer is a good place for this. Big cities like Paris clear out. The bakery on the corner in my neighbourhood taped a handwritten note to its shutter and went south. Now I’m in the south too, and in the evenings the light stays late and goes gold and I read with the win
The Soundtrack to Three Days Grace (opens the original)
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Music has always been integral to my writing process. In fact, music is part of how Three Days Grace came to life. Certain songs seemed to surface from the same emotional current as the story itself: fragile, insistent, impossible to ignore. As the novel reads:Turning on a light, seeing everything that is happening in the dark, and wishing you could turn it off. The instinct that says look again, even when you already know what you’ll find.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="
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