Sarah E. Moffett

Washington, D.C. was beautiful on Saturday. Serenely gorgeous. The wind kept the trees in constant motion, the heat took a hiatus for the shockingly cool temperatures of 67 degrees, and the world stood in awe as breakfast was, for once, quickly obtained at Mancini’s. It was blissful in light of the previous week’s “joyful” legal […]

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I want to write like Rachael Yamagata sings.
Tuesday night at the Birchmere, I saw Rachael Yamagata for the first time. I’m in love. And so is everyone else that was there for her performance. Her relaxed manner, easy banter, and approachable rapport, played the perfect transition to her smoky voice as she levitated the audience […]

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix;
Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection
to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night.
Fastest cure to insanity? Read someone crazier than yourself.
Last night I sat down to read […]

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“Who is the greatest story teller you have ever heard?”
Each time this question was asked on book tour, I paused, smiled, and gave a two word response. It was the one question to which I didn’t have to contemplate the answer. When asked for an example of this unknown legend, I liked to quote the […]

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The New York Times and every-other-author-with-a-brain is stealing my less than original thunder. It seems everyone who is no one has taken to blogging and online book tours to promote their slice of the literary kingdom. I’m fairly certain the New York Times’ Kara Jesella was quoting my publisher’s marketing mantra when she wrote “[i]n […]

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The literary world is buzzing. For once it is not wizards and vampires that are grabbing the columnists and publicists attention, but a fifty-six year old manuscript prosaically dubbed, On the Road: The Original Scroll.

In other words, hi Jack. You’ve been missed.
Yes, yes, I know July was officially Jack Kerouac Awareness Month, or thus saith […]

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