HeyJaredWintry Mix
A writer reads. Books: memoir Leaving Rollingstone, novels Merit Badges and Cyan Magenta Yellow Black. I write about the stories and subtleties of Minnesota life. This is my reading journal.
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The Kids Aren’t Alright: Rewatching Ghost World (opens the original)
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Yes, we live in an age made dismal by technology, but the ability to rewatch movies at your desk on the Criterion Channel is a flipping miracle.The Ghost World in my head traced a basic hipster arc from irony to sympathy, and it was softened by elegiac tones. That’s not a bad movie but it’s basically a decorative one. The actual movie was better than that. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!e9qx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/http
Notes on the Lightly Plotted Novel #2 (opens the original)
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More Songs About Bildungsroman (opens the original)
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Books Considered: The Patron Saint of Lost Girls by Maureen Aitken (Wayne State 2025—rereleased)City of Clans by Geoff Peck (Iowa 2025)In late high school and early college, I developed a sense of place so intense it embarrassed me. I managed to get homesick before I left home.I was reminded of this time in my life by two recently published works of fiction—the novel City of Clans by Geoff Peck and the linked story collection The Patron Saint of Lost Girls by Maureen Aitken. Because the cities i
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