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Out of Class: A College Journal, Part 1
Somehow, the upperclass floormate of a girl I hooked up with had called, and invited me to her dorm room. But it felt odd, and rang with...

Jason James Barry
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Why California Likes Harris, Not Trump
Like it or not, out here in SoCal your family and mine qualify as coastal elites — owning million dollar properties just minutes from the...

Jason James Barry
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A Writer's Quip: On Adding to the List of Rejection
I doubt that the editor I was emailing could write the way I do. But that wasn’t his job. His was to see if I could write the way they...

Jason James Barry
2 min read


Newsom Mandates Masks (Again) in Bid for New Recall | HEAVEdaily
HEAVEdaily | Lampoon News — California Gov. Gavin Newsom appears to have waited for his new-and-improved mandate to take effect to again...

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The Far End of the Bench
1989. Timing then was everything. And I found then, time was running out. Waiting until the end of next spring to get a varsity letter —...

Jason James Barry
5 min read


Allegory in Victimness | HEAVEdaily
In 1994, when I was wrapping up as an undergrad, I wrote what would turn out to be a handful of “commentary” columns for the college...

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A Grievance to My 1983 Junior High
To the 1983 Science Department of East Lyme Junior High: This was the year my sixth-grade science teacher was being quite literal in his...

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