Sarah Orman

Sep 9, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Timothy Caulfield |Ben Lewellyn-Taylor |Sarah Orman |J. Bonanni

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by Sari Botton, now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “Chasing Drinks with Lies, and Lies with Drinks,” by .

Aug 26, 2024 | thebarbedwire.com | Sarah Orman

On a slow afternoon in the summer of 2019, I took my laptop outside to work in a sunroom, the only place in my small house where I can be separated from my husband and children by a sliding glass door. I was perusing my inbox when an email from the Texas Freedom Network caught my eye. The email was intended to warn me about a monster: an extremist anti-abortion OB-GYN. It was July in Austin, and the sunroom was not air-conditioned, but as I clicked on a link in the email I felt a chill.

Jan 20, 2024 | sarahsorman.medium.com | Sarah Orman

As 2023 fades into the rearview mirror, I am looking back at my annual list of what I read in the last twelve months. I’ve divided my year of reading into Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. These are all books that I finished reading in either paper or audio format. Since we’re well into awards season, this year I added more subcategories and favorites. You can read my previous lists here and here, and you can read about my ambivalence about making these kinds of year-end lists here.