HeyJaredTHE HEN HOUSE
The Hen House is home to my many book reviews, occasional short fiction, and personal essays about love, life, and my attempt to catalogue and understand the world around me.
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Macbeth meets American Psycho (opens the original)
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Hypersomnia (opens the original)
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Open House (opens the original)
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Cool People Making Cooler Things (opens the original)
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I consider myself to be endlessly blessed with cool friends. They are diversely creative and talented and also endlessly generous. A few weeks back I got to attend a good friends end of semester fashion show. Mackenzie is only 23 but she’s intimidatingly talented and so cool I can’t believe she’s friends with a weirdo like me. Below is a little review I wrote after watching a dazzling display of talent strut down a runway. That same week I accompanied another of my stupidly talented friend, Heat
A Whale of a Time (opens the original)
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