HeyJaredWetherell on Writing
A monthly column celebrating and defending the art of prose, with thoughts on craft, books, and the writing life
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THE WINGSPAN OF TIME (opens the original)
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If I dive deep into memory, hold my breath and really plunge, I come to a stop on a bright summer day in 1954. The air smells of fresh-cut hay, sawdust, diesel fumes, and cow manure, the last of which wrinkles my nose up and makes my six-year old self giggle.My family is visiting the upstate New York dairy farm where my mother grew up—a rare occurrence—and my sister and I are taken into what was still referred to as the “ front parlor” to be introduced to my grandmother’s surviving sister, Aunt
SAINT PETE (opens the original)
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In the early winter of 1963, at a Long Island Rail Road station called Country Life Press, a middle-aged, respectable-looking mother and father could have been seen doing a generous and remarkable thing.These war veterans, these Eisenhower Republicans, these decent and happily conventional suburbanites were taking their fourteen-year old son into New York City to attend a Peter Seeger concert—Seeger the champion of every progressive cause on the map, the union agitator, the scourge of the House
FROM THE BEACH (opens the original)
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Wetherell on Writing will soon be back from summer vacation, with a slightly different remit for the months ahead. I’ll still be be concerned with books and literature, defending as always the notion of writing as an art form, one of the most difficult to pull off, but I’ll be expanding the boundaries, giving myself permission to write about a wide range of other subjects, from food to music to history to rural life—and who knows what else.As I Please George Orwell called his miscellaneous, stil
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