The Marvelous Paragraph Project with Sarah Stone

The Marvelous Paragraph Project with Sarah Stone

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Jenny Offill, Lauren Elkin, and Marin Kosut, On Being (or Not Being) an Art Monster
The holidays are over, like a dream, and “real life” has started up again, like a very different dream.
 • Sarah Stone
Zadie Smith, Dead and Alive: Essays (plus great books by friends and cozy escape fiction)
Here is a false memory: one of my writing instructors once said, “You do not need to find an organizing principle for your work.
 • Sarah Stone
Christine Hale: On Kevin McIlvoy’s Willingness, and Handing It On
(Guest post by Christine Hale)
 • Sarah Stone
Hilary Zaid, Forget I Told You This (and new books by Joan Silber, Marisa Silver, and David Haynes)
Upstairs, twinkle lights garlanded the doorways of makeshift lofts, thin walls draped with heavy carpets to muffle noise.
 • Sarah Stone
Willa Cather, The Troll Garden
A surprising number of us have our own, apparently mostly secret, relationship with Willa Cather.
 • Sarah Stone
A.S. Byatt, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye: Five Fairy Stories (plus Marriage to the Sea has a cover!)
A few weeks ago, I finally watched the film Three Thousand Years of Longing and afterward reread the source, A.S.
 • Sarah Stone
Mohsin Hamid, Exit West: A Novel
In the last month or so, I finally read Percival Everett’s James (just as great as everyone says—couldn’t stop reading it, wept over the ending, etc…
 • Sarah Stone
The Marvelous Paragraph Project with Sarah Stone
The Marvelous Paragraph Project with Sarah Stone
Celebrations of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry by Sarah and guests. Close readings and explorations of splendid paragraphs, stanzas, and the occasional page or two. Sometimes craft-y. Sometimes just human.
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Off Campus Writers Workshop
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