HeyJaredThe Feckless Bellelettrist
Observations, essays, and literary ephemera from a diffusely overeducated book critic, former lit-mag editor, and relentless amateur.
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A Scattering of Crusts (opens the original)
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Dear readers, subscribers, friends and fellow denizens of the substackverse,I have been neglecting you lately. There are periods in the life of an essayist, especially of a so-called “personal essayist,” that are so confusing, rich, strange, and potentially life-altering that they should not be written about for immediate public consumption. These life-altering and mind-altering days are also writing-altering—in the sense that they ask for a new style, a new way of being with words more attuned
The Burial of the Dead Part 2 (opens the original)
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I wish I knew why I feel such loyalty to the deceased. Hearing of their deaths I often said to myself that I must carry on for them and do their job, finish their work. And that of course I couldn’t do.—Charles CitrineLike it’s, erm, predecessor, which you may read or reread here, this essay
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