HeyJaredPlease Read Your Book
Essays about reading, and life abroad from an American in Shanghai.
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Addresses in Three Countries (opens the original)
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I go to San Francisco every summer and I am always a tourist there. My mother lives in the city, and that is the reason for the trip. I have never lived there myself. I wouldn’t want to, nor could I ever afford to. After enough annual visits I know it the way you know a hotel you have stayed in many times, which is to say I can find things and none of t… Read more
This Is About 10 Minutes I Won't Get Again (opens the original)
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She stopped first. We had been climbing for about forty minutes, the kind of climb that is more effort than it looks, and I was watching the wet, rocky ground under my feet. When I looked up she was standing off the path on a flat rock beside a creek, not turning around, not saying anything. I stepped up next to her, relieved for a momentary break.The c… Read more
Why Literary Horror Feels Better Than It Should (opens the original)
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Being frightened by a book is one of few intellectual pleasures I trust.The rain suddenly came on a Tuesday afternoon in Bangkok. A black wall appeared in the sky, the wind kicked up, and in minutes the rain was coming straight down. I was in a coffee shop reading Christopher Buehlman’s Between Two Fires, more than a hundred pages into a France decimate… Read more
Why I Couldn't Get Near Lauren Olamina (opens the original)
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I started Parable of the Sower in Shanghai, where in 3 years of living here, I have never once thought about who was walking behind me. It was the first week of summer break and I was packing to go see my family. I got about twenty pages in.That was enough. Lauren Olamina is fifteen, living behind a wall in a California town where water costs more than … Read more
Field Notes 01: Change isn't the hard part (opens the original)
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Most of what we love, we didn’t choose. It arrives while we are busy with something else.We tell ourselves we’ll change when we’re ready. It’s just too difficult now. It’s not the right time. As if we are in control of something we don’t even understand.The hard part isn’t change. Change happens whether we agree to it or not. The hard part is staying open to it. Letting a place, or a person, or an idea, be different from what you decided it was. That means paying attention to life without judgin
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