HeyJaredRead Me
Newsletter of the former editor in chief of The Happy Reader. A magazine as well, in its way
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Read Me #18: Circle dance (opens the original)
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When I played Any Human Ever, I got a girl who lived in the Maghreb in 1068 BC. She lived in a village of about 250 people, and never went farther than a day’s walk. She died at 46, leaving behind a single grandchild.The market in Chagny, a village in Burgundy, is crowded and sprawling. You often find yourself in bottlenecks, between stuff representing, you assume, the median desires of the general customer: cheese, spice sellers, dumpling squishy toys, and racks of ‘NY’ baseball caps patterned
Read Me #17: Reading while listening (opens the original)
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A task is set: pick up the book closest to you, open it at random, then send Read Me the first sentence you see.From cult guitarist Roy Montgomery: “The disquiet I experienced because of that momentary failure to see what was meant — I now sometimes feel that at that moment I beheld an image of death — lasted only a very short time, and passed over me like the shadow of a bird in flight.” The sentence is in The Emigrants (1997) by W.G. Sebald. Is he reading it or was it just on a cafe shelf or s
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