HeyJaredLittle Intimacies
A newsletter by @sophmackintosh. Small essays & sometimes fiction.
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Line eyes (opens the original)
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Recently I read an interview that depressed me, an interview with the author of an incredibly successful novel. The interview made it sound as if the author had mainly wanted a huge book deal, rather than to write the best novel they could. There is nothing wrong with gimlet-eyed ambition; you can definitely want both things, and sometimes, happily, both things coincide. But I think it’s important to remember that they are, regardless, two distinct desires. And the interview made the process of
Gaining Ground (opens the original)
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Nothing this year so far has really gone how I planned. Yet, the wheels have not fully come off (yet). I’m alone in a hot city, and I haven’t lost my mind. Haven’t even really been tempted to lose my mind fully. Growth!!I’m flat and cat-sitting for friends in Paris, a city which I’m told always empties out in August, and especially this year, perhaps, everything wavering in the heat of yet another blistering canicule. I actually love the city like this: slow and sleepy, half the shops and bars s
Airlock (opens the original)
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1I make it out to Berlin somehow, though I can barely leave the house in the days before. The sequence of tasks is comforting: pack bag, get coach, buy tiny shampoos, drink one coffee, board, immediately eat lentilsuppe, pickles and bread with my friends when I arrive. Each completed task makes me feel better, and when I step off the plane I take a deep breath, I touch a version of myself without grief, or the grief is different. I let myself into the flat that I consider my home away from home,
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