Sarah E. Moffett

[For those that have read Growing Up Moffett, you are familiar with the members of my family. For new readers, allow me to explain that I am inexplicably close to my family, my father fixes, my mother listens, and my siblings and I are best friends. This would be a cheesy Disney movie if it […]

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Don’t I and a billion other readers wish.
The list of authors for Saturday’s Bibliophile-Rumble (a/k/a National Book Festival) is impressive, but I’m confused. Where is youth favorite Stephenie Meyer? Virginia’s own legal thriller producer John Grisham? New York Times darling Khaled Hosseini of Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns fame? Gritty and terrifying Cormac […]

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So, okay. Here’s the deal. I made an enormous fool of myself, and it’s entirely Sarah Moffett’s fault. I brought this book to my son’s medical appointments and read it while trapped in numerous waiting rooms. I actually made heads turn and drew the wrath of the receptionists. What did I do? Well, first, I […]

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William Burroughs would have loved where I was last night.
 Sitting on 14th & T Street at Cafe Saint-Ex last night, I was inspired. Maybe it was the ambiance of honking, irritated drivers, the disheveled, swaying Happy Hour participants or the amount of Jim Beam in my “Kentucky ice tea,” but the evening felt like the end […]

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So I could ask him what in the world he was thinking with The Man Within.
The self-described “novelist who happened to be Catholic” and I have had a love affair dating back to my introduction to his End of the Affair. No puns intended. Since then, I’ve steadily worked my way through his English views […]

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Hear ye, hear ye, the 2007 National Paper Cut Conglomeration will take place next week on Target One in the Emerald City with the Wizard’s wife presiding.
In other words, the 2007 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by First Lady Laura Bush will be held on Saturday, Sept. […]

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“Writing is exorcism by printed exhibitionism.”
Thanks for making me author of the day Eileen Parker. See you on the virtual book tour.
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Dear Publisher,
The second book is underway. After months of collecting stories, trips to visit relevant locations, and intense existential soul searching, I have managed to produce a whopping five pages. Granted, most of it is a letter to my mother apologizing for the noodle incident, but the remainder of it is genius.
Why so few pages you […]

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 ”It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.”
Thus saith Rainer Maria Rilke. Or in my case, the diversionary tactics from writing book two continue. I am beginning to engage in such productive behavior as drafting a letter to John […]

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It seems that while some writers cannot put two sentences together as they live and breathe, others can do it from their graves. For instance, perhaps you have heard of Monsieur Alexandre Dumas. You know, famous French author, penned The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and approximately 300 other novels with the assistance […]

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