HeyJaredLetter From Somewhere
Off-the-beaten-track musings from a writer of strange stories about travel, nature, art, books, film, running, walking, psychogeography, hiking, history, the weird, the uncanny, the gothic, ghosts, hauntings, memory, and so much more.
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Baggage (opens the original)
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More than sixteen months ago, I walked through the back door of this house (this house that I never wanted, this house that has always been half-falling apart and continues to do so with renewed gusto around my ears) with a roller suitcase, having reluctantly returned from a trip to the UK. I parked the roller suitcase in the living room, just outside the door of the room that has been my bedroom. I took out the things I needed over the next few days, mostly clothes.In the months that followed,
Begin Afresh, Afresh, Afresh (opens the original)
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I decided recently that I wanted to start writing here weekly again. Around the time I decided this, I sent out the next thing I wrote on a Friday, and I thought, well, that’s it, Friday is the day now (especially now that Friday doesn’t mean competing with my friend Georgina’s newsletter1, which is funnier and more popular than mine). And I managed it the following week but then this past Friday came and went and I did not finish writing anything<a class="footnote-anchor" href="#footno
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Criticism and Review, or: How Can We Write Honestly About Books Without Being Mean? (opens the original)
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A very long time ago, in an era now lost to us forever—I am speaking, of course, of the days when people used social media to tell silly jokes and post pictures of their lunches and throw sheep at one another instead of trying to ruin people’s lives, or at least their day—I posted, without thinking very much about it at all, that someone had written something negative about of one of my stories, as part of a review of the magazine it had appeared in. Letter From Somewhere is a reade
Half a World Away (opens the original)
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Back in the 1990s, I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal. In our first weeks in-country, we trained at a site not far from the Trisuli River. One October day some of us took a hike with some of our language trainers and other staff to a sacred Hindu site. On the back of several of my photos I’ve written “Devighat, Nepal, sacred confluence of 2 rivers, 2-hour walk from Trisuli, Nepal.” According to the internet, this was actually “Devghat” (I mean—in the end we’re talking about a largely oral cu
Proof of Life (opens the original)
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I don’t know how or why the last several weeks went by without a single post here. It wasn’t on purpose, and I have scribbled down lots of ideas and written bits of several essays. But I didn’t finish any of them, and as time went on it started to become not so much a matter of writer’s block as stage fright, a sense that after a few weeks of quiet I needed to come back with something really spectacular to justify my absence, even more so since I’ve had quite a few new subscribers in that time (
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