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@corybooker.com gave us a moral blood transfusion yesterday. We were totally gripped and filled with hope. I remember hope. It feels amazing.

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Sabrina Orah Mark, Happily: A Personal History—with Fairy Tales — Sarah Stone At the end of this year, which had a truly Gothic amount of plot in it, we’re anticipating more wildness in the months to come. Into the Woods after the demise of the narrator. Over the holidays and...

Fairytales, family, and wildness: www.sarahstoneauthor.com/the-marvelou...

This wonderful, insightful review captures so much of what I am loving about this gorgeous, dark, surreal collection.

@anitafelicelli.bsky.social's HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS has received a lot of love since its publication two weeks ago. Thanks to Ms. Magazine, Book Riot, The Book Maven, Nob Hill Gazette, Largehearted Boy, Alta, Vol 1 Brooklyn, Gizmodo and all for their support of this fantastic collection!

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Probably the safest thing to do for him.

Ali Smith, Autumn — Sarah Stone As we feel our way into how to adjust to our new circumstances, wherever we are in the process, I’m appreciating the pieces that writers are sharing to help us look after each other. One of the writer...

I love Ali Smith so much. Wrote about her novel Autumn for the Marvelous Paragraph Project (plus check the end of the piece for news, submission opportunity, and new and forthcoming books from MPP contributors.) www.sarahstoneauthor.com/the-marvelou...

I was just thinking about Alice Munro this morning. My feeling is that there are actually other great writers. Instead of Munro for character or structure, people can learn at least as much from Joan Silber or Zadie Smith. And Octavia Butler or Ocean Vuong instead of McCarthy. What do you think?j

Walk by the bay after a day of working through copy edits (now I’m thinking, should I be capitalizing Bay there?)

@5calls.org on the job. I always find them very helpful in figuring out the next useful thing to do. Or at least a next useful thing to do. We are going to have a lot of options for things that need doing…

Morning walk before the atmospheric river arrives.

Sending light.

Ooh this is a very good one

Hello friends. I was here, but now I am HERE. Sending you love. Please note fabulous opportunity below ❤️💔🌺

Consciousness, Splintered Venita Blackburn’s Dead in Long Beach, California, the July California Book Club selection, uses startling techniques to tell the story of a woman whose brother has taken his own life.

"Blackburn understands more about human capacities than Coral ... all of the dazzling, unsettling splits in consciousness, all of Coral’s evasions, return to the messiness and surprises of real life," writes @sarahstoneauthor.bsky.social.

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Thank you, Susan! And I love learning this about your mother. A beautiful name. ❤️

Thank you, Olga! Happy to be here and very much appreciate you sharing!

The Marvelous Paragraph: Reading as a Writer — Sarah Stone Writers on reading beloved authors: the art of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

My newest Marvelous Paragraph Project piece is on Kikuko Tsumura’s gorgeous novel There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job. The book is funny and weird and captures something of what it means to earn a living at precarious jobs. You can find it here: www.sarahstoneauthor.com/the-marvelou...