HeyJaredTHE TRANSITION
Short stories, essays, and interviews focused on what happens when life changes.
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TRANSITION INTERVIEW #25: Dani Shapiro. (opens the original)
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Dani Shapiro is the bestselling author of six novels, four memoirs, and one non-fiction title on craft. Her memoir Inheritance is a New York Times bestseller, winner of the National Jewish Book Award for autobiography, and a best book of 2019 according to Vanity Fair, Wired, Elle, and Real Simple. Her most recent novel Signal Fires also won numerous awards and has written for The New Yorker, Vogue, and The New York Times. She also co-founded the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy, h
TRANSITION INTERVIEW #24: Sam Alaimo. (opens the original)
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Sam Alaimo is a former teammate, writer, thinker, former Navy SEAL, and the author of What Then?, where he contributes weekly dispatches on meaning, hardship, and much more.In this interview, we discuss our brief overlap in the SEAL teams, something neither of us realized until more than a decade later. We discuss Sam’s own TRANSITION from the military, a helicopter crash in Afghanistan that landed the same day as his acceptance letter to business school, his time spent in private equity, and ho
Halfway to God. (opens the original)
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One of those days between Christmas and New Year’s when trees are still up, families have gone home, and no one is quite sure what to do with themselves, I arrived and found the door cracked. I took a moment, reconciling the image I’d been carrying with what was there. The lights were off and the room was dark except for a bit of dull light at the edges of the curtains on the opposite wall.He may not recognize me, I thought, as soon as I entered the room. “Good morning.” The sound of a woman’s v
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