Notebooks, Man

Jack Uzcategui
5 min readJun 7, 2019
Photo by Ali Yahya on Unsplash

When I was a kid, I “borrowed” a voice recorder my grandpa had. This one still needed a full-sized cassette tape to work, and about 4 AA batteries. I used to tell stories and do “interviews”.

It was big and clunky and I think it died when I dropped it after climbing to the rooftop of the house.

After that, I graduated to a brand new state of the art recorder that accepted mini-cassette tapes. I kept it in the…

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Jack Uzcategui

“In 2014, a few years before the war, Jack moved to Paris to write and drink wine. He died during the invasion when he refused to leave Paris without his dog.”