HeyJaredEsoterica, Etcetera
I’m Jillian Marshall. Welcome to my weird place for writings that don’t fit within my current book projects. Topics vary: people, places, memories, fictional portraits, society, and other esoterica— etc.
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Mother Knows Best (opens the original)
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There are two women in Brooklyn I’ve considered my “Brooklyn Moms” since moving here eight years ago, both of whom I met at New Corner Restaurant. Many of my extensive legion of fans (…) know that my time at New Corner — an incredible time capsule of an Italian restaurant, with a rotating cast of fabulous regulars, that operated for 84 years in Bay Ridge — comprises my yet-to-be released second book, PhD Waitress: An Academic Goes Rogue in Brooklyn. Both of my Brooklyn Moms are heavily featured
On Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (opens the original)
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In May of 2018, I was face-deep in the torturous drudgery that was finishing my doctoral thesis: a harrowing ordeal that pushed me to my mental, psychic, and even physical limits. In fact, that brutal final push toward becoming a doctor of philosophy is what made me realize that, if I ever tried to go up for tenure, I’d become Robert Pirsig himself: a man shoved off the brink of his own psyche like the aftermath of a Mafia hit, a martyr to the etheric world of ideas whose call those of us who un
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