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Jaye Viner

6 Novels About Abortion

During the last of my pre-pandemic daily commutes, I listened to the audiobook of Lindy West’s, The Witches Are Coming. This collection is…

5 min readMay 11, 2022

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Jaye Viner

The News Is Never Just Facts

The news has been full of big things this week. Afghanistan, the Delta Variant, Haiti. There’s this strange thing that happens with news…

3 min readAug 19, 2021

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Jaye Viner

The Disney Canon

This summer I have watched 26 of the 59 Disney Animation feature films. Some of them for the very first time. (Princess and the Frog was…

3 min readAug 12, 2021

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Jaye Viner

Music and Memory Part II

Last week, I wrote about how I’m trying to give myself new associations for childhood music that I love but that is tainted by association…

3 min readJul 29, 2021

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Jaye Viner

Music in Memory

Here is a familiar scene: your spouse, child, parent says something like, “Remember? We just did that last week.” And you search your mind…

3 min readJul 21, 2021

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Jaye Viner

What to Listen for in Film Music

The biggest difference between a symphony and a film score is that the symphony was created to stand on its own, to be the focal point of…

3 min readJul 15, 2021

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Jaye Viner

Six Years After His Death, James Horner Lives on…in my Novel

Sources of inspiration for a writer are as vast as they are mysterious. I’ve been writing for decades, yet the things that spark an idea…

4 min readJun 22, 2021

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book cover of Jane of Battery Park. Orange and red tones show park benches and lamp posts in background with swirling glossy film strip in foreground

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Jaye Viner

When I was Twelve

When I was twelve

3 min readJun 10, 2021

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Jaye Viner

Beyond Words: Music that Gives All the Feels

Last week I went to Disneyworld by myself for fun. It was a strange, extremely impulsive and extravagant decision. I made it with two days…

3 min readJun 3, 2021

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Beyond Words: Music that Gives All the Feels

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Jaye Viner

In the Future, We Will Wear Slime?

Have you bought new clothes this month? I have. In fact, the pandemic gave me far too many reasons to sit online and buy clothes that I’m…

5 min readMay 20, 2021

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Jaye Viner

Jaye Viner

Jaye Viner knows just enough about everything to embarrass herself at parties she never attends. Her novel, Jane of Battery Park, arrives in August

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