HeyJaredThe Floating Armoire
Writing about life, literature, parties, and basketball. Also, reprints of work by other writers who I have published in Open City Magazine, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, and in anthologies of original writing such as Personals and With Love and Squalor.
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The Floating Man In The Pool is Relaxing Not Dead (opens the original)
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Six Degrees of J.D. Salinger: #1 (opens the original)
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On a Saturday in the autumn of 2014, shortly after the publication of J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist, I wrote an email to the book’s editor, James Atlas, that began, “Good grief I miss our conflicts and deadlines.” I was getting used to the notion of not having James Atlas in my life. For about a year, he had been my own literary Bobby Knight—throwing chairs and threatening to choke me, or threatening my agent. “No one has ever talked to me like that,” she said after his last, final tantrum, i
Mr. Beller's Neighborhood has a Substack (opens the original)
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The following is the introductory post to the Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood Substack. It was written by Henry Kaplan and features an interview and short video focused on one of our contributors, the photographer Larry Racioppo, whose work documents the pre-ironic Brooklyn.Henry’s piece, below, speaks for itself. But it also enacts, in microcosm, the mechani… <a href="https://thomasbeller.substack.com/p/mr-bellers-neighborhood-has-
Mother on Park Bench, Reading (opens the original)
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My mom, recently turned 95. I bumped into her on a park bench at sunset this evening reading a book. A day of crisp light, the air balmy but cool. We talked, I asked a passing guy to take this picture, and after a bit of conversation I left for the grocery store. 40 minutes later I went past the bench on my bike and she was still there reading. I reach… Read more
Reprints: Soft Money by Robert Bingham (opens the original)
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There is a line in Robert Bingham’s essay, Soft Money, that drifts into my thoughts now and then in the same way that the melody of a song will drift into my consciousness and take up residence there for a few minutes, hours, or days. “Piece of advice. If your love life has collapsed and the fights have gotten so old that even they have had no choice but to permeate into a new genre, in short, if your love life is a cataclysmic disaster and the last thing you need to do is to spend time mulling
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