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Sarah Blake

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Sarah Blake's novel Naamah, a retelling of Noah’s ark from the perspective of Noah’s wife, was published by Riverhead Books in 2019 and won the National Jewish Book Award for best debut fiction. Her second novel Clean Air is forthcoming from Algonquin Books in 2021. Blake is also the author of the poetry collections Let’s Not Live on Earth, featuring the epic poem “The Starship,” and Mr. West, an unauthorized lyric biography of Kanye West, both from Wesleyan University Press. In 2013, she was awarded a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She currently lives in the UK.
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How We Write the Dead: A Conversation with Vikram Paralkar

  • Sarah Blake
  • February 17, 2020
Vikram Paralkar discusses his debut novel, NIGHT THEATER.
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Personal, Political, and Poetic: A Conversation with Susan Briante

  • Sarah Blake
  • April 5, 2017
Susan Briante discusses The Market Wonders, her newest collection of poetry in which she draws on market indicators like the Dow Jones Industrial Average to construct a criticism of contemporary culture.
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The Rumpus Interview with Max Ritvo

  • Sarah Blake
  • September 21, 2016
Max Ritvo passed away on August 23, 2016. Earlier this summer, he spoke with Sarah Blake about his debut collection Four Reincarnations, writing with and about cancer, and how language is a game.
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Men Explain Submissions To Me

  • Sarah Blake
  • March 15, 2016
Perhaps he thought he was doing me a favor by explaining this to me so I might not get into further trouble. I’m afraid I have continued to get myself into trouble instead.
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