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Jared Gulian

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I write heartwarming memoir and suspenseful sci-fi. Two-time NZ bestseller. 🇺🇸🇳🇿🏳️‍🌈

I grew up in suburban Detroit and currently live on a small hobby farm in rural New Zealand. In my spare time, I enjoy what some call 'granny hobbies' — knitting, baking, reading, and limited gardening. (I broke my back in 2022, and I've been living with chronic pain ever since.)

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We Need Your Art by Amie McNee
"As someone fairly comfortable with my own creative process, I was reading most of this book, nodding along, thinking “yes, good points, but I don’t struggle with this.”

Then the chapters on fearing failure and fearing success hit me right in the chest" Read more of this review »
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Opening the Hand by W.S. Merwin
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“I had hardly begun to read
I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can't
you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write”
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Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli
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I expected to enjoy this much more than I did, although I enjoyed 70% of it I'd say.

Don't let the intro by André Aciman in this edition fool you; this book is nothing like Call Me by Your Name. I expected a tragic love story of sorts, which it is, bu
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There's a good reason why this book won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction in 2021 at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Almost every single one of these short stories hit the ball out of the park, to borrow a horrible phrase from the sporti ...more
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“It is a scientific fact that the crack between the stove and the kitchen counter serves as a kind of voracious black hole, sucking in all falling objects within a meter radius.”
Jared Gulian, Moon Over Martinborough: From Michigan to the Wairarapa
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
Winston S. Churchill

“It is a scientific fact that the crack between the stove and the kitchen counter serves as a kind of voracious black hole, sucking in all falling objects within a meter radius.”
Jared Gulian, Moon Over Martinborough: From Michigan to the Wairarapa
tags: humor

“I think there is a difference between comic essays and war reporting, and people can tell that.”
David Sedaris

“Our hopes may seem unrealized, but we were in all likelihood hoping for the wrong thing.”
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“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
Albert Einstein

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