Sarah E. Moffett

How To Get to Heaven or Hell Without Going Through Dallas-Fort Worth is the alternative title for Kinky Friedman’s Guide to Texas Etiquette, an anthropological study meets comedic satire on, you guessed it, Texans. This jewel of an airplane ride read includes things you would never hear a real Texan say, final meal requests from […]

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Now that I’ve shared with you my new hero, I know you’re wondering how he, who shares the same last name as a Nobel Prize winning economist, ended up with the first name “Kinky.” O.K., maybe you’re not, but I was. Click play for the answer to that and all of your other unasked questions.

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…for this week.
1. Trying to read Proust’s Swann’s Way
2. Trial
3. Miley Cyrus being inescapable
4. Congress.  I can’t explain it more specifically, they just annoy me.  Alot.
5. Wearing hosiery (anytime, but particularly due to skirt suits in winter)
6. Bad shiraz
7. Parking behind a mini cooper that takes up two full spots on H street
8. The very large man […]

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Kinky Friedman. If you read his most recent column for Texas Monthly, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, he would be your hero too. That is, of course, if you stumbled across him after having just finished another trial, were struggling with writer’s block, were being “haunted by the waters” of Norman Maclean’s masterpiece A River […]

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When I was writing, it was necessary for me to read after I had written. If you kept thinking about it, you would lose the thing that you were writing before you could go on with it the next day. It was necessary to get exercise, to be tired in the body, and it was […]

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So Robert Frost’s house gets ransacked, and somehow I’m motivated to start book two.
Who says there isn’t order in chaos?
Anyway, we all know the mantra, “write what you know.” I’ve tended to take that phrase a bit too seriously. See book one. Well, book two will be a continuation of the life and times of […]

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. A modern author. I know. Who reads them? Not me. So I couldn’t possibly tell you about the book that had me choking on my own tears at 35,000 feet as Jonathan Safran Foer pulled a modern incarnation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions with a significantly more sentimental twist. […]

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2007 was boring. Really boring. There was a 10,000 mile book tour, a handful of road races, in and out of the car, falling in love with Kerouac and Vonnegut, approximately $1,050 in parking tickets, drinks in Monte Carlo and the train jumping debacle, two car accidents, losing mucho dinero in Vegas to those impossible […]

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Nothing like a hometown paper write up to make one feel important…or validated.  Particularly when said newspaper covers the geographical region of Leadville, Colorado (below), which is the home to several generations of Moffetts and shockingly the setting for part of my first book, Growing Up Moffett.  Prosaic, I know.

“Written with a good sense of […]

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Well, more like top 20, but then it was two Moffetts trying to narrow it down.
Top 20.  (Not in order of importance.)
1. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
2. Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis
3. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (go to Haworth, England. You’ll get it.)
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Marquez (the banned genius)
5. End […]

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