HeyJaredPeter Buckman’s Substack
The Celebrity Effect is about my encounters with some flickers of fame, and what they did for my career as a writer, publisher, and literary agent.
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I just turned 85, which sounds ridiculously old, but I still feel like a teenager pretending to be a grown-up. I dither between awkwardness and arrogance, eagerness and the caution of experience: my mother, who was 103, pointed out that no one teaches you how you’re supposed to act old, any more than they teach you how to raise children - you’re expected to just get on with it. I’d be reluctant to admit to being a failure as an old person, anymore than I’d admit to being a lousy parent. Though o
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