HeyJaredFrump Feelings
Craft essays and criticism on writing, books, and fat liberation from the author of Housemates, Fat Swim, and The Third Rainbow Girl.
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August is for surrender (opens the original)
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If you’ve been with me here a while, you know I’m a little obsessed with August. “August is a weird and prickly and physical month, a month both very alive —heat, sun, steam, sweat — and very dead — away messages galore! summertime sadness!” went last year’s August letter about how my annual friend-family trip to the Jersey Shore has come to be a kind of vital somatic healing practice to me, something stabilizing that does for me what pilates or orgasm does for other people. <a hre
A song for you (opens the original)
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“Mr. Brain, he sick of sickness,” goes the Barry Hannah essay on how stories work. “He want a song.” Back from teaching at the McCormack Writers Conference (longtime fave Tin House Summer Workshop was forced to rebrand), I am unwell (complimentary) and don’t have any arguments, takes, or plots. All I have for you are songs. The song of wanting more vitality in one’s life instead of less.
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