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Catch and Kill

Feb 24, 2026

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9 min read

Catch and Kill

What to do with anger.

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Jonny Auping
Next Man Up

Feb 17, 2026

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10 min read

Next Man Up

A time capsule of NFL and sportswriting two decades ago.

Jonny Auping
Jonny Auping
Where Are Your Boys Tonight?

Feb 10, 2026

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11 min read

Where Are Your Boys Tonight?

My tentative foray into emo as a 37-year-old.

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Jonny Auping
Dilla Time

Feb 3, 2026

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10 min read

Dilla Time

And remember Michael "5000" Watts

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Jonny Auping
Sag Harbor

Jan 27, 2026

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8 min read

Sag Harbor

A summer of unsure footing

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Jonny Auping
Heroes of the Frontier

Jan 20, 2026

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7 min read

Heroes of the Frontier

Is this guy going to be my Google

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Jonny Auping
Music Lessons

Jan 13, 2026

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6 min read

Music Lessons

Perhaps a better teacher would see the giving inherent in music

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Jonny Auping
The Axeman's Carnival

Jan 6, 2026

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6 min read

The Axeman's Carnival

Seeing social media from the outside and getting embarassed

Jonny Auping
Jonny Auping
Zone One

Dec 30, 2025

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11 min read

Zone One

And the time I saw a man die at a Cécile McLorin Salvant concert.

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Jonny Auping
Horse

Dec 23, 2025

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7 min read

Horse

Who writes whose voices and what must they do to earn that?

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Jonny Auping
Sticky Fingers

Dec 16, 2025

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8 min read

Sticky Fingers

Or: A Remembrance of Raul Malo

Jonny Auping
Jonny Auping
Between The World And Me

Dec 9, 2025

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8 min read

Between The World And Me

And What Else I'm Protecting My Child From

Jonny Auping
Jonny Auping
Leaving Cheyenne

Dec 2, 2025

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7 min read

Leaving Cheyenne

Getting through work to make it to the messiness of love and bonding.

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Jonny Auping
Cathedral

Nov 25, 2025

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11 min read

Cathedral

"Ray was good will's very soul." A writer who gave you space to observe.

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Jonny Auping
The Overstory

Nov 18, 2025

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10 min read

The Overstory

One of two books to change the way I look at the world.

Jonny Auping
Jonny Auping
Meet Me In The Bathroom

Nov 11, 2025

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9 min read

Meet Me In The Bathroom

This can happen where you are, but you have to be uncomfortable.

Jonny Auping
Jonny Auping
This Kind Of Trouble (2025)

Nov 4, 2025

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7 min read

This Kind Of Trouble (2025)

Writing with thoughtful manipulation.

Jonny Auping
Jonny Auping
I Never Met A Story I Didn't Like (Mostly True Tall Tales) (2014)

Oct 28, 2025

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10 min read

I Never Met A Story I Didn't Like (Mostly True Tall Tales) (2014)

Once again, the jester brings some of the best wisdom

Jonny Auping
Jonny Auping
Nina Simone's Gum (2022)

Oct 21, 2025

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6 min read

Nina Simone's Gum (2022)

Assigning objects to meaning, and not the other way around.

Jonny Auping
Jonny Auping
Sontag (2019)

Oct 14, 2025

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8 min read

Sontag (2019)

Her work can always take you further than her life.

Jonny Auping
Jonny Auping
North Woods (2023)

Oct 7, 2025

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7 min read

North Woods (2023)

What will it take for you to believe a location can remember?

Jonny Auping
Jonny Auping
Knife: Meditations On An Attempted Murder (2024)

Sep 30, 2025

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8 min read

Knife: Meditations On An Attempted Murder (2024)

An intellectual escapes death and gives us permission to see him as anything but an intellectual.

Jonny Auping
Jonny Auping
Me And Sister Bobbie (2020)

Sep 23, 2025

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8 min read

Me And Sister Bobbie (2020)

The gentle fingers that brought the Red Headed Stranger to us in one piece.

Jonny Auping
Jonny Auping
Post Office (1971)

Sep 16, 2025

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11 min read

Post Office (1971)

Los Angeles is a map of the good and the bad and the adventures of contrasts.

Jonny Auping
Jonny Auping
The New Kings Of Nonfiction (2007)

Sep 9, 2025

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8 min read

The New Kings Of Nonfiction (2007)

They're the old kings now, and yet Gladwell still sits on his throne of pseudo-sociology.

Jonny Auping
Jonny Auping
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