Sarah Wrote That

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I started this tumblr page back in September as a repository for travel photos. I knew I would be out of the US for awhile, and I figured that this would be the best way to keep friends abreast of what I was encountering abroad. Plus, since I was aiming to create a visual record of my thought…

This is wonderful.

Reblogged from elliott holt

“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.”

Since [1996] she has written for six hours a day without weekends or vacations, producing five novels, three of them finalists for the Booker Prize. It is not surprising, given this, that she speaks about her work with moral urgency.