HeyJaredHu's Letter?
The classic Hu's Letter is a free digest that comes out at irregular intervals, featuring my favorite links, half-baked thoughts and assorted recommendations. That will always be free. Extra rants/essays and archives older than 12wks are paywalled.
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On The Thinness Trap ... And A Way Out (opens the original)
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There’s a familiar knock on millennials, funnier now that we’re SO middle aged: If you go into a room full of millennials and ask, “Where’s a grownup?,” everyone starts looking around. The other thing my generation seems to have in common, regrettably, is that very few of us were spared an eating disorder. I was once ashamed of my own late 1990s anorexia, until I realized it’s much harder to think of peers who didn’t suffer from disordered eating than those who did.One culprit, for our generati
You're Stayin' Alive, Stayin' Alive [182] (opens the original)
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Happy Monday,<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="474" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KKpj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b4067e2-c5a3-4683-be87-cd23
8 Takeaways From Interviewing Ann Patchett Twice This Year (opens the original)
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I know, I know. Getting to say I interviewed Ann Patchett twice this year is such a flex. Ann is one America’s greatest living novelists, but one of the reasons I admire her so much is because I also consider her one of our great American journalists. She started in magazine writing, and her early profiles and essays are showcases of her wit, sharp mind and wry sense of observation. She obviously brings all of that to bear and adds imagination — and probably my favorite dialogue writing — into h
Influencer-ification, Same-ification ... And Cookies [181] (opens the original)
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Hi from LA, One theme I return to a lot in my work is seeing/being seen. I think the shock of being seen — going from only understanding ourselves as subjects to seeing ourselves as objects — marks a real transition from childhood to womanhood. And we wrestle with seeing ourselves in third person henceforth. My book Flawless, and my film WINDSWEPT explore in their own ways how identity is performed and contested. What happens when we now come of age and learn to self-objectify … in a uni-con
On Traveling Smarter (opens the original)
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Hello from Hawaii,The kids are away at sleepaway camp so we parents snuck off to the Big Island for what my friend called “DINK Week,” in which we PRETEND we are dual income/no kids just for the week. It slaps! It hits! Whatever slang you want to use, I’m into it. <so
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