HeyJaredsadreview
An irregular dispatch where I talk about what I'm reading, most of which is probably sad.
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sadreads #26: the elegiac & the hallucinatory (opens the original)
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In a poem called “Dad Joke,” about two-thirds into his new book Elegy for Pangaea (Fonograf, Sept 2026) the writer Mark Leidner writes about the song “Who Let the Dogs Out.” The meta-punchline of the poem, the titular dad joke, is a pun made from the title of the Y2K track by the Baha Men and delivered “in the unmistakable cadence of the song.” It comes at the end of a page, and I won’t ruin it here because it is actually rather funny. It’s followed by white space that takes up the remainder
sadreads #25: being kinda bad at stuff (opens the original)
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Hello! This letter will be a short one, and more of a series of updates, but as you can see below, I’ve been engaging with books in other places and not saving it for my personal brand. This is why I’ll never be a rising star of the newsletter-based form! Oh well. But I’ve had some fun in the recent weeks, so first let me recap that for you. A month ago I got to read at an exceptional event in London with Lucy K Shaw, Poppy Cockburn, Iphgenia Baal, and Paul Johnathan. Here’s the dispatch from lo
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