HeyJaredNo Substance
It's about the books I write & the books I read & the movies I watch & and the movies I don't make.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 12
- Latest publication
- Sep 28, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 6, 2026
Latest issues
No Substance #282: An Incomplete History of Disquiet (opens the original)
Read excerpt
No Substance #282: An Incomplete History of Disquiet.The next few issues of Remains, a magazine edited by Andy Cox and illustrated by Richard Wagner, will feature my new project, An Incomplete History of Disquiet. The first instalment of it, ‘The Unreal History of Constance Weaver (1943–2011)’ will appear in issue six.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p1Ac!,f_auto,q_auto:good
No Substance #281: The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen (opens the original)
Read excerpt
<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="360" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GmPf!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf8c0f39-90bb-4cf7-a623-ee1f05beb33c_640x360.jpeg"
No Substance #280: The Art of Space Travel by Nina Allen (opens the original)
Read excerpt
<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1518" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-hrI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f934879-abd4-41ff-ad1d-e989c0f77af3_1000x1518.
No Substance #279: Shows Watched (opens the original)
Read excerpt
We’ve been watching some TV recently. My partner and I are a bit on and off when it comes to serial stuff, partly because we both drift away from shows when given the space. There’s no real reason for it, I suppose. Perhaps we’re just like magpies and we move from shiny thing to shiny thing. Personally, I like when we can just go through a series in a week, or a few nights. Netflix’s dump model, now so derided by people, is excellent. Without it, I find that we wait until something is complete,
No Substance #278: John Crowley’s Novelties and Souvenirs (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Winter is on its way out and on the weekend I chopped down a tree. Well, part of a tree. A part of it was dead and needed to be cut down and which, at numerous points, I asked myself why don’t I have a chainsaw? but there are very good reasons I don’t own such a tool.A few months ago I passed one of my neighbours out on the street, perched halfway up a tree with a hatchet in his hand. He’s in his seventies, maybe close to eighty, and he was up this narrow tree balanced somehow on a thin branch a
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.