Sara Ryan

I just watched No Maps for these Territories: a documentary about William Gibson. I was expecting to like it — I’m a big fan of Gibson, especially of Pattern Recognition — and I did. But the visuals, I thought, were trying too hard to add an additional layer of meaning to what Gibson was saying, [...]

I made you into a lolcat.

– and if you haven’t, you must remedy this straightaway, because it is the best and most hilarious cop movie that celebrates cheesy cop movies ever, in the same way that Shaun of the Dead is the best zombie movie — anyway, if you haven’t, you won’t understand why the fact that as we were [...]

Hey Portlanders! Please come to In Other Words Tuesday, May 8th, at 6:30 pm for my first reading of Rules in Portland! Please also bring a dollar. Not for me, for the bookstore. It is the very last surviving nonprofit women’s bookstore in the country, and as they say on their site, “In an effort [...]

I should know by now that on the last day of any trip, I don’t want to do anything. I don’t want to see anyone. I just want to go home. However, I didn’t take this into account when I booked my flight, so here I am in the Oakland airport, having shelled out ten [...]

Hey. I was offline for a day and a half and it feels like forever. This probably means I should stay offline longer, but here I am, slave to the keyboard and the coffeehouse wifi. Huge thanks to everyone who came to see Lauren Myracle and me at the Not Your Mother’s Bookclub event! (Click [...]

The cab rolled down the hill a little ways before he lunged for the emergency brake. When it stopped, I put my suitcase in the trunk. The cabbie laughed a panicky little laugh. “First customer!” “Sara is the name of many woman in Africa,” he said later. “My daughter, she is Sara.” The dispatcher came [...]

This is just a reminder that this coming Wednesday, April 18th, at 7 pm, I’ll be at Books Inc. in Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness, along with the fabulous Lauren Myracle. Reading! Signing! Who knows what else! It is, indeed, Not Your Mother’s Bookclub. Come one, come all!

Remember how everyone who got a set of stickers was also going to be entered into a drawing for a signed copy of Rules? I have just done that drawing. Dani in North Carolina, a signed copy of Rules is on its way to you! :) Other folks: if you’d like the stickers, you can [...]

I keep throwing things out. The broken old stereo components and the broken old printer are gone. Why were they all in the under-the-stairs storage for over a year anyway? Did we think they’d magically regenerate if we left them in the dark? I also let go of a disintegrating family heirloom. As the child [...]