May 13, 2016
Making It New
“Was it okay to write about keeping a notebook when Joan Didion already did that? Or puberty? Or anorexia?”
Sarah Gerard the author of Sunshine State, a New York Times critics’ choice, the novel Binary Star, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times first fiction prize, and two chapbooks. She's currently at work on a novel and book-length work of nonfiction. She also make collages.
“Was it okay to write about keeping a notebook when Joan Didion already did that? Or puberty? Or anorexia?”
The night before our class, nine people were shot to death in Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. I suddenly felt ill-equipped to lead the discussion.
