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Sarah Stone (she/they) is the author of the novels The True Sources of the Nile and Hungry Ghost Theater, a finalist for the 38th Annual Northern California Book Awards. A new book, Marriage to the Sea, is forthcoming in spring 2026 from Four Way Books. Sarah is also the co-author, with Ron Nyren, of Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers. Sarah’s work has appeared in Image, Ploughshares, 100 Word Story, StoryQuarterly, The Millions, Scoundrel Time, The Believer, CRAFT, Alta Journal online for the California Book Club, and A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their Craft, and was included in the list of distinguished stories of 2020 in The Best American Short Stories 2021, Jesmyn Ward, editor. Sarah is ...more

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	The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers by Vendela Vida (Editor), Sarah Stone (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 311 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers by Sarah Stone (Goodreads Author), Ron Nyren (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The True Sources of the Nile 3.46 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1999 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their Craft by Andrea Barrett (Editor), Peter Turchi (Editor), Sarah Stone (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hungry Ghost Theater 4.46 avg rating — 39 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope by Luke Reynolds (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jennifer Reynolds (Editor), George Saunders (Foreword) 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I tore through At Last in two days: it's a marvelous family story, full of complexity and nuance. As I read, I fell in love with Helene and Evelyn: two complex, believable, memorable characters brought together by their children's marriage. It's a ch ...more
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I’m a huge fan of David Haynes’s rich, funny, character-driven fiction. He’s the kind of writer who can make the people in his books feel genuinely alive. They are impossible, lovable, unexpected, and human. The title novella here has Martha’s middle ...more
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Sarah Stone rated a book it was amazing Mercy by Joan Silber	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Some writers make you feel that you have the chance to understand people at a deeper level than ever seems possible in real life. Grace Paley, for example, and Joan Silber, for another. I’m a huge fan of Joan Silber’s books: brilliant, incisive, but ...more
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Marcy Dermansky's novels are completely delicious, full of terrible behavior by people who shouldn't be sympathetic, but are, except when they really, really aren't. The superrich and all their lovely stuff. The wonderful mother (writer) and enchanti ...more
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Anita Felicelli is one of my favorite writers. I first fell for her previous short story collection, Love Songs for a Lost Continent, then her amazing novel, Chimerica. And now these fourteen dark, gorgeous, surrealist stories about love, loss, and m ...more
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