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5 Ways to Read like a Writer

I used to feel slightly ashamed of the amount of time that I invest in reading and coming up with methods to remember what I read. But then…

12 min readAug 26, 2022

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Books I read and listened to in 2023, with commentary.

As 2023 fades into the rearview mirror, I am looking back at my annual list of what I read in the last twelve months.

26 min readJan 20, 2024

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A trail of open books. Photo by Laura Kapfer. (Unsplash).

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Some of my favorite quotes about writing and creativity

At some point in early 2020, after a random conservation with my sister-in-law about the problem of remembering what we read, I started to…

9 min readApr 20, 2023

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Books I read and listened to in 2022, with commentary

Welcome to my second annual review of my year in reading! Like last year, I divide my books into fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, but I…

27 min readJan 3, 2023

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Another DFPS meeting about investigating gender-affirming care as child abuse

I did not have any pride swag. This was my thought last Friday morning as I prepared to go to the headquarters of the Department of Family…

6 min readDec 17, 2022

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A pin with the shape of Texas filled in with rainbow colors and another pin with she/her/hers pronouns.

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A Book Review that Nobody Asked For: Memoirs of a Beatnik by Diane di Prima

Have you ever read a book so wildly unique, so relentlessly its own thing, that, immediately upon finishing it, you want to call up every…

11 min readSep 23, 2022

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A Book Review that Nobody Asked For: Memoirs of a Beatnik by Diane di Prima

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Essay In Which I Prove the Existence of the Patriarchy

Last month, the Southern Baptist Convention released an investigation report describing how the organization’s leaders have been…

8 min readJun 24, 2022

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A person of ambiguous gender, with long hair and a dreamy expression, looks down on Moses about to throw the Ten Commandments at a bunch of golden calf-worshipping heathens.

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Weird Things Happen Around Bald Women

When Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars, I turned to my thirteen-year-old son and ten-year-old daughter and said: “Weird things…

7 min readApr 2, 2022

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A black and white picture of the author as a bald teenager.

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What I Saw and Heard at a Meeting about Care for Transgender Youth in Texas

Yesterday I went to a public meeting of the advisory council for the Texas Department of Family Protective Services. I’d never been to a…

8 min readMar 13, 2022

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Books I read (and listened to) in 2021, with commentary

On December 31, 2021, I got roped into making a list of books that I read and listened to in 2021. By “roped in,” I mean that my father…

22 min readJan 10, 2022

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Books I read (and listened to) in 2021, with commentary

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Sarah Orman

Sarah Orman

Writer and editor in Austin, Texas. Follow me on Substack @sarahorman for twice-a-month dispatches about books and writing. More info at sarahormanwrites.com.

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