Sara Ryan

“Friday Five” is the most convenient meme, because despite its origin as five questions you are supposed to blog your answers to, you can instead totally just list five random things. WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT I’M GOING TO DO.
1. Wildfire has the most minimal website I’ve seen since approximately 1996, but at least there’s [...]

So, Laurie was gracious enough to mention me in her utterly fantastic Teen Author Lecture speech. She also talked about her editor, among many other people and things. And, well, afterwards, a girl came up to me and said, “I understand that you’re Laurie Halse Anderson’s editor, and I just want to thank you for [...]

Dudes. I was totally the runner-up at the Define-A-Thon at Broadway Books. I had great trepidation about the Define-A-Thon (trepidation is a good Define-A-Thon-style word, actually) but it turned out to be super fun. It brought back memories of playing Around The World in elementary school, although I managed not to get sent out of [...]

It’s a good week for readings at the downtown Powells. Junot Diaz will be there tonight, and Amy Bloom will be there tomorrow night.
Here are some people posing with their favorite books. I love the black and white documentary-looking style, and I’m also fascinated by the titles people chose.
There’s a new interview with me [...]

The Internet was out at our house all weekend. I could have gone to one of the many fine wireless access points provided by Personal Telco, but instead I sorted, straightened, read, did laundry, took things to Goodwill and Rerun, and spent Sunday painting a bookshelf the same orange as the front door. (Yes, I [...]

The law of unintended consequences: now that the super new website design is up, I feel like my posts need to be somehow worthy of it. This does not, of course, guarantee that they will be. Of course, a bunch of you read me on LiveJournal anyway and do not see the website design — [...]

…that William Gibson watches The Wire. He says:
 I don’t know what constitutes “noir” in 2007. I mean, would The Wire be noir? I don’t think so. Actually, noir—I was taught in college—is a kind of baroque pop version of literary naturalism. Anyway, that’s the way some critics have looked at it. I think that a [...]

Brave Mr. Elephanter by Lark Pien is sweet and delightful and you should really see the elephanties.
I have sort of a shopping cart now. If you go to Publications and click on one of the minicomics covers, you will see. This would have happened sooner had I not forgotten my Paypal password, like, ten times [...]

The New York Times calls me a collaborator. (Second page, near the end, a brief mention. I’ll wait.) Thanks to Zack, January & others for letting me know!

I’ve jumped onto the Scrivener bandwagon. So far I am intrigued but feel sort of dumb about how best to exploit all its fascinating capabilities. Any of y’all [...]

Read Coyote Wild with especial attention to Prolegomenon
Listen to the Harvey Girls

Never let it be said that I fear public humiliation. This was taken after one of the two performances of “Intimate Acquaintances,” one of Pioneer High School’s Student Productions in the year of our Lord 1988. I’m the second from the left. Also in [...]