Sarah E. Moffett

Four faded, tattered, ink stained notebooks covered four months, 28,000 miles, and the better part of every train stop from London to Tokyo and back again by way of vodka laced Siberia. By the time I put down the resulting compilation of those notebooks, Paul Theroux’s The Great Railway Bazaar, I felt like I had […]

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Kevlar, goulashes, water, sunglasses and an infinite supply of patience. All the necessary gear for attending and surviving the 2008 National Book Festival. Rumor has it the Woodstock for Bibliophiles, Part Ocho, featured 70 authors and drew over 120,000 to the intermittently rain soaked Mall this past Saturday and put the security team for Laura […]

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If you have to take sides with the animals
Won’t you do it with one who is kind
Ever heard someone sing tears and then talk laughter? That would be Rachael Yamagata performing liquid melodies at the Birchmere last night while celebrating she and her twin brother’s 30th birthday party. Her emotionally visceral lyrics were fabulously juxtaposed against […]

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Today was the first time in twenty years I have watched my father get ready. I was reading Steinbeck in a musty hotel chair in Monterey when he walked out of the hotel bathroom clad in a white t-shirt and olive slacks. Both were pressed. He pulled up his pants, strung his black belt, rubbed […]

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Author’s Note: My little sister is embarking on an adolescent riot of passage this fall—high school. There are only two things I can think to bestow on her that will be of any substantive value for her social and educational enlightenment—a can of mace and The List.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Separate Peace […]

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Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Baskerville Hounds by Sir Author Conan Doyle
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
The Caye by I-cannot-remember-to-save-my-life
The Hobbit by […]

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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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“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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