Sarah Wrote ThatTumblr (3.0; @sarahwrotethat)http://sarahwrotethat.com/Today I'm Reminding My Studentsto watch out for spelling eroshttp://sarahwrotethat.com/post/437410122http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/437410122Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:54:37 -0500humorgeekylanguageWords & Music• I’m in love with Josie Sigler’s poem in the current Pebble Lake Review (via E...http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/434963490http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/434963490Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:46:00 -0500musiclit magsJosie SiglerLeigh Steingood thingsEnormous Exuberance At The Last MinuteReading Grace Paley’s Enormous Changes At The Last Minute this weekend, I was amused in light...http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/434896514http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/434896514Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:55:00 -0500lit critGrace Paleynew yorkSaint Etienne, “Spring”<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://sarahwrotethat.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/432883935/tumblr_kyxfn5dVdO1qa0rqv&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p>Saint Etienne, “Spring”</p>http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/432883935http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/432883935Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:33:05 -0500musicSaint EtienneTwo weeks and twenty-five degrees Fahrenheit difference…<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyxfavoUeE1qa0rqvo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyxfavoUeE1qa0rqvo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Two weeks and twenty-five degrees Fahrenheit difference…</p>http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/432871277http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/432871277Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:25:43 -0500photographyNorthampton"As the Soviet Union began to fall, she bounced from an economics department — her thesis was on regulated costs in machine-tool building enterprises — to English instruction to the wobbly business world of the 1990s. The last bounce took place on a burning cruise ship off the coast of Turkey, when she spent six hours shut in her cabin, waiting to see if help would come."- from Ellen Barry’s profile of Russian Booker Prize winner Yelena S. Chizhova: Since [1996]...http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/430803327http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/430803327Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:25:00 -0500Yelena S. Chizhovabooksnew york timesrussiaThis afternoon I signed off a letter to a potential vendor,...<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/j50Xd40EfJg&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/j50Xd40EfJg&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>This afternoon I signed off a letter to a potential vendor, “I look forward to working with you.”  Now I can’t stop thinking about the last line of this bit of genius from the folks who’d go on to bring us <i>Whose Line Is It Anyway?</i></p>http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/429517199http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/429517199Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:08:00 -0500in the 90s we didnt have memes we traded quicktimes and we liked ittruth in advertisingvideohumorThoughts On Grace PaleyThis week in my independent study we started Paley’s Collected Stories, and alongside my...http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/420949525http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/420949525Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:32:00 -0500lit critgrace paleybooksGrammar Missteps Into PoetryIt’s 1:30 AM and I am grading papers—writing is glamorous!   Then along comes this: I was...http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/414883605http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/414883605Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:32:00 -0500languagefor realsThe Well-Tempered Exclamation Point: Examples Of Fine Internet Style<a href="http://sadydoyle.tumblr.com/post/413671145/me-and-my-jobbery-or-do-sadys-work-for-her-pt-125">The Well-Tempered Exclamation Point: Examples Of Fine Internet Style</a>http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/413683277http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/413683277Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:52:00 -0500language"One of the things that never ceases to amaze me is the pleasure I take in the sweep of the Raritan River past New Brunswick, as seen from New Jersey Transit heading south. A surprise lift to the spirit—in a very odd place for that to happen—after a day in the big city."- Paul Krugman I have that same sense every time I ride that line.http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/412153408http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/412153408Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:59:00 -0500new jerseynew york timesMore On The Blizzard Of 1888More On The Blizzard Of 1888: Looking up Broadway toward the old post office in what’s now...http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/411440132http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/411440132Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:29:00 -0500photographynew york"Some AccuWeather.com meteorologists have even been referring to the storm as a 'snowicane' rather than a blizzard," reports AccuWeather.com, "in order to express the fierce extent of the snow and wind expected from the storm."Because ‘blizzard’ clearly can’t convey the extent of snow and wind that confronts...http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/411384811http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/411384811Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:47:00 -0500humorlanguagethe nineteenth century was HARDCOREnew yorkMississippi Review Online Flash Fiction Issue (vol 16.1)<a href="http://mississippireview.com/">Mississippi Review Online Flash Fiction Issue (vol 16.1)</a>http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/410489741http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/410489741Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:38:00 -0500lit magsWhat’s better than lists of “if you want to write” tips?  Well, this from Laura...What’s better than lists of “if you want to write” tips?  Well, this from Laura...http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/409814671http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/409814671Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:52:00 -0500humorlit critDownfall: WSJ Edition…Or, Hitler finds out that The Wall Street Journal misses why his meme is funny… I love...http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/409468912http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/409468912Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:09:00 -0500lit critdownfallHitler finds outWSJNPR Three Minute Fiction, Round ThreeI’m not usually keen on writing from prompts, but this one I like.  The deadline is midnight...http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/409278149http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/409278149Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:37:00 -0500flash-fictionNPRthree-minute fictionPhoto<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kycsnmMwEo1qa0rqvo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/409236772http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/409236772Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:04:00 -0500Northamptonphotographysnow dayThoughts On Flannery O'Connor's Late StoriesWe finished reading Flannery O’Connor’s Complete Stories this week in my independent...http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/407477306http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/407477306Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:17:00 -0500lit critFlannery O'ConnorTony Judt: wary of -isms, at home on the edge...Tony Judt: wary of -isms, at home on the edge...: …where countries, communities, allegiances,...http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/407363644http://sarahwrotethat.com/post/407363644Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:51:42 -0500