Sarah Stone's Writings
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Article
Dec.06.2011
The Believer
Central question: How do refugees reenact war in their daily lives? Format: 272 pp., cloth; Size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"; Price: $22.95; Publisher: Ecco; Editor: E. J. Van Lanen; Run: 25,000; Book designer: Cassandra J. Pappas; Translated by: Michael Henry Heim; Author has also written about: “Smurfentaal,” Dutch slang peppered with Moroccan, Turkish, Antillean,...
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Article
Dec.06.2011
The Believer
“THE WORLD IS NOT REVOLVING AROUND YOU. OR IT’S REVOLVING AROUND YOU FROM YOUR POINT OF VIEW, BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER REVOLUTIONS GOING ON AT THE SAME TIME.”
Things not always necessary in fiction-writing:
First drafts
Buddhist meditation
Weight
Scenes
The mechanics of sex
When something awful happens, people often say that it builds character. More...
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Short Story
Dec.06.2011
Ploughshares
We were the News-of-the-World Theater Collective, moving from city to city together; we were all married to each other and to the idea of what you could pull from the streams of the news that ran over and around and through our lives. We wanted no one to let that information splash over them without thinking, so much unnoticed linguistic and conceptual sewage....
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If anything I do, in the way of writing novels (or whatever I write) isn’t about the village or the community or about you, then it is not about anything.(Toni Morrison)
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About Sarah
Sarah Stone has written for Korean television, reported on human rights in Burundi, and looked after orphan chimpanzees at the Jane Goodall Institute. Her novel The True Sources of the Nile (Doubleday/Anchor) has been taught in courses on literature, ethics,...
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