HeyJaredRadhika Jones
Writer, editor, and voracious reader, at work on 'Bookish,' a memoir, with Penguin Press. Former EIC of Vanity Fair; alum of NYTBR, Time, Artforum, The Paris Review; English Ph.D.; and longtime book-club moderator
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Eyes on the Prizes (opens the original)
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Hello, and welcome new followers. Thank you for joining! Many of you arrived on the heels of a fun q&a I did with Club Yolo about reading and travel. Answering those questions sent me back to my earliest travel-writing inspirations, and consequently I’ve got Paul Theroux’s The Old Patagonian Express on my nightstand, which is a joy. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jp
The Book I'm Not Reading (opens the original)
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In the first half of 2026, at least in my little corner of it, the book that has come up most often in conversation is Belle Burden’s memoir, Strangers. Many people I know have read it, and many of them have asked me about it; book clubs have devoured it; media and social media outlets have covered every inch of it; it’s been through cycles of lash, backlash, and backlash-to-the-backlash. I have read reviews and other pieces about it, both positive and negative, but I have not read it. Eventuall
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