HeyJaredThings We Don't Talk About (But I Do)
Personal essays about the things we don't talk about - money, sex, medication, loneliness, recovery, friendship and more. Honest writing delivered to your inbox in prose as pretty as I can make it.
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No, not Dolly (opens the original)
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How I got here: A curriculum vitae of sorts (opens the original)
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Hi all,I’ve been away for a very long time - I’m sorry. I’ve even written a couple of Substacks but not published them: one, because it felt turgid and sermon-like (which is my least favourite kind of writing), the other because it just felt like too much.Well, buckle up, because here’s the too much one. I wrote it a while ago, around the time that The Devil Wears Prada 2 came out. I now work at a magazine that, at times, feels very like the fictional Runway of that movie, and when the topic of
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