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Sarah Gerard


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Literature & Fiction, Contemporary


Sarah Gerard is the author of the essay collection Sunshine State; the novel Binary Star, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times first fiction prize; and two chapbooks, most recently BFF. She teaches writing at Columbia University and for independent workshop series, including Catapult, Sackett Street, and Brooklyn Poets. Her short stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, The Baffler, Vice, BOMB Magazine, and other journals, as well as in anthologies. She writes a monthly column for Hazlitt and is currently at work on several books, including a novel about love and a nonfiction book about a murder.

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Average rating: 3.36 · 6,240 ratings · 1,040 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors
Binary Star
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Sunshine State: Essays
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Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Fri...
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True Love
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The Butter House
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BFF
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Things I Told My Mother
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“The longer I live in time, the less I believe in the future.”
― Sarah Gerard, Binary Star
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“The way space-time curves around it: Love is a black hole. Undetectable except by the way it affects other bodies. Invisible but strong. Inescapable.”
― Sarah Gerard, Binary Star
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“Beauty can be tricked into being where it is not. It is naught. It is not the past. Because the longer I live in time, the less I believe in the past.”
― Sarah Gerard, Binary Star
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