HeyJaredThe Drugs Don't Work Anymore
A Sunday morning newsletter to get you through the scaries. Divertations and explorations on high culture, low culture, dadhood, politics and books from a has-been Playboy columnist.
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What do you do with a problem like Hasan? (opens the original)
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Witch Hunting for AI (opens the original)
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And also goodbye to all that (opens the original)
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The worst part about how important Joan Didion was to me when I was 25 is that it’s now such a fucking cliche to like Joan Didion. I can’t even read her anymore. But she’s a good, brilliant writer. Play It As It Lays is still in my top ten and several months ago (this was before the Nuzzi book) I actually objected with an editor about the phrasing in a piece because I liked it because it had that old Didion ring.That editor later pitched me on a piece and I wrote the piece and it
Whose Fault is Graham Platner? (opens the original)
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