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Sarah Gerard’s dazzling second book, Sunshine State, is a collection of essays interlacing narrative nonfiction and personal essay. The thirty-one year old Brooklynite teaches nonfiction and writes a monthly column for Hazlitt. She has received rave reviews from the New York Times, NPR, and The Millions. Using her home state of Florida as the medium to navigate […]
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In Yearbook #3, Sarah Gerard talks about writing Binary Star, going to her ten-year high school reunion stoned, and growing up on the south side of St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Author Sarah Gerard talks about her novel, Binary Star, her chapbook, BFF, dysfunctional relationships, and what it means to be best friends forever.
...moreWe’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from author Sarah Gerard! Sarah writes to us about her lifelong, childhood friendships and her only friend from that group of friends who hasn’t turned out happy. Sarah Gerard is the author of the forthcoming chapbook BFF and the novel Binary Star, which NPR calls a […]
...moreHow much do we know an author after reading his or her work? What right does a reader have to criticize or judge an author’s writing? Sarah Gerard, whose novel Binary Star was just reviewed on The Rumpus, and Ben Fama, who we recently interviewed about his book of poetry, Fantasy, compare notes on navigating the public […]
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Megan Milks reviews Binary Star by Sarah Gerard today in Rumpus Books.
...moreNot just eating disorders, but mental health in general, I think, is probably the last frontier of empathy in our culture. I’m not a journalist, I’m not a scientist, and I’m not a health care worker, but I am somebody who has been through this before and I’m also a writer. I think with that […]
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