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Oct.23.2008
When I was young, I thought everyone was bi, and that anyone who said otherwise was lying, either to themselves or to the rest of us -- that all those straight/gay people were ambivalent/confused/on the fence…It surprised me then how often bisexuals met with anger, a sense of betrayal, annoyed...
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Jan.06.2008
A friend drove across the country to her teaching job in another state, a toilet and bathtub in the back of her car. I never saw that, but I "remember" it, just as I remember the flooded house in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping: "If we opened or closed a door, a wave swept through...
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Dec.18.2007
Revision is when it all becomes possible; when you're writing a rough draft again, after you've been in the final stages of finishing a long work -- it's impossible to remember just what that's like until you're there again. I don't mean the exhilarating moment when you suddenly have a new group of...
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If anything I do, in the way of writing novels (or whatever I write) isn’t about the village or the community or about you, then it is not about anything.(Toni Morrison)
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About Sarah
Sarah Stone has written for Korean television, reported on human rights in Burundi, and looked after orphan chimpanzees at the Jane Goodall Institute. Her novel The True Sources of the Nile (Doubleday/Anchor) has been taught in courses on literature, ethics,...
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