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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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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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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“It’s nice to have your own place, I will admit that. And it’s nice to have your own time because you can keep people from calling you on the phone and breaking your concentration. Of course, what they’re really doing by breaking your concentration is scaring that scruffy little fleabag back into the bushes.
“That part […]

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My heart is propped up by a Scotch. I just finished one of those books. The ones that pull your insides out through your eyeballs, wash them in enlightened intelligentsia and marinate them in emotion before shoving them back in word by word, page by page, chapter by chapter. “A novel is not, after all, […]

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Whoever said the first time was the hardest never tried to write a second book.
In a word, this entirely introspective, spastic, and enlightening experience may be summarized in three letters. ARG. Writing book two feels like I’m strapped down on a table enduring Chinese water torture that is percolating right through my forehead and out […]

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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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