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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.

Jonny Auping
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?

Jonny Auping
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.

Jonny Auping
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.

Jonny Auping
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
Hummingbird Salamander (2021)

Sep 2, 2025

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7 min read

Hummingbird Salamander (2021)

Ruining your life, so the world's got a chance.

Jonny Auping
Jonny Auping
The Water Dance (2019)

Aug 26, 2025

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6 min read

The Water Dance (2019)

Memory, and putting an emotional name to what you want to pass down.

Jonny Auping
Jonny Auping
Welcome To My Time Back. What Is This Place?

Aug 24, 2025

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4 min read

Welcome To My Time Back. What Is This Place?

Where you (hear me out) get your time back

Jonny Auping
Jonny Auping