"Why am I writing about my arm hurting? It doesn't fit in anywhere." "Is it okay to swear in an essay?" "This part has to go - it'll make readers cringe in embarrassment for me." "It might not even be true." "I'll write it and then plan on deleting." "Boring and stupid, boring and stupid, boring and stupid." This won't ever come together into anything, ever." "Maybe I'll make tuna fish for lunch." "Ohhhhhh, that's a nice little transition." "And what if I flip these paragraphs?" "And then this cringy part would slip right in here." "Damn." "I should walk the dog now."
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Upcoming Publications
Sandra Gail Lambert - Publications
- Alaska Quarterly Review
- Fourth River
- Gertrude: A Journal of Voice and Vision
- Something to Declare: Good Lesbian Travel Writing - an anthology from The University of Wisconsin Press
- First Person Queer - an anthology from Arsenal Pulp Press
- Babel Fruit: Writing Under the Influence
- Blue Crow Magazine
- Lavanderia: A Mixture of Women, Wash, and Words
- Greater Gainesville Dog Fanciers' Association Newsletter
- Breath and Shadow: A Journal of Disability Culture and Literature
- Conte
- Collective Fallout
Sandra Gail Lambert - What I've Read - 2012
- Esi Edugyan: Half Blood Blues
- Anne McCaffrey: Crystal Singer
- Jackie Kay: Trumpet
- Ellen Raskin: The Westing Game
- Cheryl Strayed: Wild:From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
- Lauren Groff: Arcadia
- Edgar Allan Poe: Murders in the Rue Morgue
- Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
- Carol Anshaw: Carry the One
- Amy Franklin-Willis: The Lost Saints of Tennessee
- Charlotte Arpin Niedhauk: Charlotte's Story - A Florida Keys Diary 1934-1935
- Karen Shepard: Girls Only
- Carol O'Connell: Chalk Girl
- David James Poissant: Refund
- C. Joseph Jordan: The Quiet
- Etgar Keret: Surprise Party
- Sabina Murray: Tales of the New World
- Ellis Avery: The Last Nude
- Moira Young: Blood Red Road
- Roger Mitchell: The One Good Bite in the Saw-Grass Plant
- Jerry, Idaz, and Michael Greenberg: Mangroves - Trees in the Sea
- Karl Taro Greenfield: Partisans
- Jane Hirshfield: Come, Thief
- Lucia Greenhouse: Fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science
Sandra Gail Lambert - What I've Read 2011
- Janisse Ray: Drifting into Darien A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River
- Joanna Klink: Raptus
- Joan Wickersham: The Suicide Index
- Yannick Murphy: The Call
- Arlaina Tibensky: And Then Things Fall Apart
- James Zwerneman: Horse and Rider Thrown into the Sea
- William Faulkner: Light in August
- Benjamin Soloman: Who Cycles Into Our Valley
- Lynne Barrett: Magpies
- Sheri S. Tepper: Grass
- Ali Smith: There But For The
- Sally Bellerose: The Girls Club
- Kristi Reilly: Water Party
- Nalini Jones: Tiger
- Helen Benedict: Sand Queen
- Justin Torres: We the Animals
- Vivian Gornick: The Situation and the Story
- Donal Ray Pollock: The Devil All the Time
- Amanda Kyle Williams: The Stranger You Seek
- Jennifer Egan: A Visit From the Goon Squad
- K. L. Cook: Filament
- Elissa Schappell: The Joy of Cooking
- D.A. Powell: Chronic
- Geraldine Brooks: March
- Danielle Evans: Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
- Ann Clare LeZotte: T4
- Sonja Livingston: Ghostbread
- Melissa Kwasny: Thistle
- Linda Gregerson: Magnetic North
- China Mieville: Embassytown
- Caitlin Horrocks: Life Among the Terranauts
- A.M. Homes: The Omega Point or Happy Birthday Baby
- Megan Mayhew Bergman: Housewifely Arts
- Claire Vaye Watkins: Man-O-War
- Robert Rodi: Dogged Pursuit: My Year of Competing Dusty, the World's Least Likely Agility Dog
- Caroline Knapp: Pack of Two
- Julia Spencer-Fleming: One Was a Soldier
- C. D. Wright: One With Others
- Susan Stinson: Fat Girl Dances with Rocks
- Jackie Kay: Red Dust Road
- Jim Moore: Invisible Strings
- Malinda Lo: Huntress
- Lee Lynch: Beggar of Love
- Tayari Jones: Silver Sparrow
- Saxon Bennett: Marching to a Different Accordion
- Josh Weil: No Flies, No Folly
- Catherine Friend: Sheepish:Two women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet
- Julia Spencer-Fleming: I Shall Not Want
- Sudye Cauthen: The Salvation of Maggie Rider: Stories from Nokofta
- Mark Richard: House of Prayer No. 2
- Edna Ferber: Giant
- The Missouri Review, Winter 2010
- Kevin Brockmeier: The Illumination
- Marianne K. Martin: Legacy of Love
- Elana Dykewomon: Risk
- Malinda Lo: Ash
- Isabel Wilkerson: The Warmth of Other Suns
- Mira Bartok: The Memory Palace
- Annette Gordon-Reed: Andrew Johnson
- Emma Donoghue: Room
- Tina McElroy Ansa: Taking After Mudear
- Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence
- Jill Malone: A Field Guide to Deception
- Geraldine Brooks: Year of Wonders
- Virginia Woolf: The Years
- Ninni Holmqvist: The Unit
- Merce Rodoreda: Death in Spring
- Lisa Genova: Still Alice
- Karen Ripley: Prisoner of Dreams
- Diana Athill: Stet
- A.S. Byatt - The Children's Book
Sandra Gail Lambert - What I've Read 2010
- Lucy Jane Bledsoe: The Big Bang Symphony
- Amy Butler Greenfield: A Perfect Red - Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire
- David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas
- A.S. Byatt: Possession
- L. Annette Binder: Nephilim
- Minal Hajratwala: Leaving India
- Suzanne Collins: Mockingjay
- Mary Hunter Austin: The Land of Little Rain
- Stieg Larsson: The Girl Who Played With Fire
- Nnedi Okorafor: Who Fears Death
- Monique Truong: The Book of Salt
- Suzanne Collins: Catching Fire
- Susanna Daniel: Stiltsville
- Tamas Dobozy: The Restoration of the Villa Where Tibor Kalman Once Lived
- Molly Antopol: The Quietest Man
- Reif Larsen: The Puppet
- Justin Cronin: The Passage
- Sigrid Undset: Kristin Lavransdatter - The Bridal Wreath
- Smith Henderson: Number Stations
- Katharine Davis: A Slender Thread
- T. Cooper: The Husband
- Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games
- Junichiro Tanizaki: The Makioka Sisters
- Cheston Knapp: A Minor Momentousness in the History of Love
- Barb Johnson: More of This World or Maybe Another
- Sara Gruen: Water for Elephants
- Naomi J. Williams: Snow Men
- Robert McCarthy: Stag
- Grant Munroe: Corporate Park
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Recovery Man
- Susanna Daniel: Stiltsville
- Terese Svoboda: Bomb Jockey
- Seth Fried: Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre
- Pete Nelson: I thought You Were Dead: A Love Story
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch: The Disappeared
- Connie May Fowler: How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly
- Rebecca Skloot: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- E. L. Doctorow: Ragtime
- Alison Apotheker: Slim Margin
- Patti Smith: Just Kids
- Pat Spears: Wildflowers
- Achy Obejas: Ruins
- Anne Corbitt: The Tornado Bandit
- Jennifer Haigh: Desiderata
- Annette Gordon-Reed: The Hemingses of Monticello
- Sheila Schwartz: Finding Peace
Sandra Gail Lambert - What I've Read 2009
- Anne Finger: Call Me Ahab
- Maggie Estep: Alice Fantastic
- Herta Muller: The Land of Green Plums
- Dave Eggers: How the Water Feels to the Fishes
- Sarah Manguso: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape
- Homer: The Odyssey (translated by Robert Fitzgerald)
- Craig Hartglass: Pigs
- Kevin Michael Connolly: Double Take: A Memoir
- Sheri Tepper: Dervish Daughter
- Sheri Tepper: Jinian Star-Eye
- Sheri Tepper: Jinian Footseer
- Dave Cullen: Columbine
- Margaret Atwood: The Year of the Flood
- Sheri S. Tepper: Wizard's Eleven
- Sheri S. Tepper: Necromancer Nine
- Sheri S. Tepper: King's Blood Four
- Sheri Tepper: The Search of Mavin Manyshaped
- Sheri Tepper: The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped
- Sheri Tepper: The Song of Mavin Manyshaped
- Caedra Scott-Flaherty: Rocky Point, Mexico
- China Mieville: The City and the City
- Joe Meno: Children are the Only Ones who Blush
- James Hannaham: Interrupted Serenade
- Amanda C. Gable: The Confederate General Rides North
- Something to Declare: Good Lesbian Travel Writing
- Terry Galloway: Mean Little deaf Queer
- Dara Horn: The World to Come
- Kamila Shamsie: Burnt Shadows
- Ben Stroud: Eraser
- Adin Bookbinder: Meteorology
- Carrie Brown: A Splendid Life
- Cote Smith: Hurt People
- Elizabeth Strout: Abide with Me
- Lola Haskins: Extranjera
- Staceyann Chin: The Other Side of Paradise
- Catherine Asaro: Diamond Star
- Michael S. A. Graziano: The Love Song of Monkey
- Pat Spears: He's No Cowboy
- Marlon James: Book of Night Women
- George Eliot: Middlemarch
- Mary Hood: How Far She Went
- Kenny Fries: The History of my Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory
- Charlaine Harris: Dead Until Dark
- Patrick Ness: The Knife of Never Letting Go
- Dana Stabenow: A Taint in the Blood
- Judy Blundell: What I Saw and How I Lied
- Diana Athill: Somewhere Towards the End
- Lauren Groff: Delicate Edible Birds
- Andrea Barrett: The Air We Breathe
- Lars Anderson: Paynes Prairie [A History of the Great Savanna]
- Abbe Smith: Case of a Lifetime
- Anita Shreve: The Pilot's Wife
- Paule Marshall: Traingular Road
- Antonya Nelson: Talking in Bed
- Thomas Nevins: The Age of the Conglomerates
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Andrea Barrett: Archangel
- Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Jayne Anne Phillips: Lark and Termite
- Christy Ann Conlin: Heave
- Daniel Tammet: Born on a Blue Day
- Stephenie Meyer: New Moon
- Stacey D'Erasmo: The Sky Below
- T. Cooper: Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes
- Ann Aguirre: Grimspace
- Doreen Baingana: Tropical Fish
- Ben Greenman: The Tremulant
- Jane Yolen: Sister Light, Sister Dark
- Kazuo Ishiguro: A Pale View of Hills
- Elizabeth Strout: Amy and Isabelle
Sandra Gail Lambert - What I've Read - 2008
- Opal Whiteley: Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart
- Catherine Asaro: The Night Bird
- Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge
- Stephenie Meyer: Twilight
- Robert Travieso: We Bluegills
- Toni Morrison: A Mercy
- John Jodzio: Flight Path
- Susan Nugent: Women Conserving the Florida Keys
- Carol Anshaw: Seven Moves
- Catherine O'Flynn: What was Lost
- Jane Hilberry: Body Painting
- Renee Ashley: Revisionist's Dream
- Louise Ure: The Fault Tree
- Yannick Murphy: The Good Word
- Francine Prose: Goldengrove
- Tayari Jones: The Untelling
- David Wroblewski: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
- Thomas Grattan: Foreign Girls
- Marilynne Robinson: Home
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch: The Disappeared
- Amanda Ripley: The Unthinkable - Who Survives When Disaster Strikes and Why
- Ramona Ausubel: Safe Passage
- Geraldine Brooks: People of the Book
- Nell Casey: How to Know Each Other
- Jean Thompson: Wilderness
- Robin Black: Harriet Elliot
- Carol Anshaw: Aquamarine
- Kelly Cherry: My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Recovery Man
- Lucia Perillo: I've Heard the Vultures Singing
- Elizabeth Hand: Generation Loss
- Faye Kellerman: The Burnt House
- Kelly Cherry: Writing the World
- Stephenie Meyer: The Host
- Honor Moore: The Bishop's Daughter
- Katherine Davis: Capturing Paris
- Augusten Burroughs: A Wolf at the Table
- Mary Anna Evans: Findings
- Julia Spencer-Fleming: I Shall Not Want
- Kenny Fries: Body, Remember
- Sarah Hall: Daughters of the North
- Edward P. Jones: The Known World
- Masha Gessen: Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene
- Joanna Scott: Liberation
- Jeanette Winterson: The Stone Gods
- The Georgics of Virgil
- Ursula K. LeGuin: Lavinia
- Meg Rosoff: What I Was
- Tayari Jones: Leaving Atlanta
- Sherman Alexie: the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- Ali Smith: Girl Meets Boy
- Michael Chabon: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
- ZZ Packer: Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
- Jeanette Winterson: The Passion
- Barbara A. Purdy: Indian Art of Ancient Florida
- Dorothy Allison: Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
- Martha Southgate: Third Girl from the Left
- W.G. Sebald: The Emigrants
- Helen Humphreys: Afterimage
- Rebecca Brown: The Terrible Girls
- Robert A. Heinlein: Podkayne of Mars
- Lucy Jane Bledsoe: Sweat
- Lauren Groff: The Monsters of Templeton
- Roland Merullo: A Little Love Story
- Richard Price: The Wanderers
- Janet Malcolm: Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
- Lucy Jane Bledsoe: The Ice Cave
- Theodore Morris: Florida's Lost Tribes
- Jerald T. Milanich: The Timucua
- Sudye Cauthen: Southern Comforts: Rooted in a Florida Place
- Ian McEwan: Atonement
- Brenda Serotte: The Fortune Teller's Kiss
- Meg Rosoff: Just in Case
- Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
I LOVE IT!!! Wish there was an upper upper case to express my enthusiasm!
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