Sarah E. Moffett

Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
The Scarlet Letter, Nathanial Hawthorne
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos
All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
The Old Man and the […]

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Some times, when writing, I need to be reminded to see the world from underneath the words, not just looking down into them.  This usually results in me having to look outside my atrophied left brain for inspiration.  Chase Jarvis was this week’s discovery and effort to see our complicated world as someone who sees things, not just describes […]

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This summarizes everything there is to say about this election. I love creativity.
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“I don’t want to be a God-fearing man. I believe in religion without fear.”
Despite not being a rabid NPR fan, this opening line has me hooked on NPR’s This I Believe, one of the most downloaded podcasts in America.  I know, I know, no one needs another podcast or media related addiction.  At the risk […]

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Each day with so much ceremony
begins, with birds, with bells,
with whistles from a factory;
such white-gold skies our eyes
first open on, such brilliant walls
that for a moment we wonder
“Where is the music coming from, the energy?
The day was meant for what ineffable creature
we must have missed?” Oh promptly he
appears and takes his earthly nature
  instantly, instantly […]

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Writers writing should not join gamblers gambling. It’s just bad. And writers should definitely not go gambling when in the midst of writing a book. It’s just stupid.
But, oh so much fun.
When I walked into the grand and wide marble foyer, I was willingly drowning in the persuasive waves of ringing machines, purified oxygen and pulsating […]

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A friend lost a friend this weekend.
He was a loveable soft, gray furball of Cheshire infused smiles and Mufasa sized yawns bought for eleven dollars and a Pokemon card by a wide eyed boy a lifetime and several girls ago. Deemed Max, this fearless tom cat used his bantering paws to tame three yipping Chihuahuas […]

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Only in the literary world. This past week in the literary world we lost some, we lost some more, and we just…kept…on…losing. First up was the death of Thelma Keane, the inspiration for the Mommy character in the long-running “Family Circus” comic created by her husband, Bil Keane, has died. The latest James Bond novel, […]

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Sunday morning I glanced at the columns in Washington Post’s Book World and promptly felt the need to add another shot to my Bloody Mary. It read like a Who’s Who for newly released titles covering divisive politics and doomsday economics. Over ten columns of lovely Sunday morning reading stared back at me with euphoria […]

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