The Last Frontier of Empathy
Not just eating disorders, but mental health in general, I think, is probably the last frontier of empathy in our culture. I’m not a journalist, I’m not a scientist, and I’m not a health care worker,...
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Binary Star by Sarah Gerard
There used to be a ride at my local amusement park called Time Shaft, a rotor ride where you got spun around with increasing speed, the centrifugal force pushing you against the wall as the floor...
View ArticleOn Finding Shade in the Spotlight
How much do we know an author after reading his or her work? What right does a reader have to criticize or judge an author’s writing?Sarah Gerard, whose novel Binary Star was just reviewed on The...
View ArticleNext Letter in the Mail: Sarah Gerard
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from author Sarah Gerard! Sarah writes to us about her lifelong, childhood friendships and her only friend from that group of...
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The Rumpus Interview with Sarah Gerard
Sarah Gerard’s debut novel, Binary Star, gives a much-needed voice to women who suffer with anorexia. Written in an inventive style, Gerard’s narrative also sheds light on co-dependency, the kind of...
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Yearbook #3: Sarah Gerard
Yearbook #3 features Sarah Gerard, author of Binary Star, a quick book of vortex-like prose, a stripped and staccato telling of a road trip of an anorexic young woman and her bi-polar, alcoholic...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #88: Sarah Gerard
Sarah Gerard’s dazzling second book, Sunshine State, is a collection of essays interlacing narrative nonfiction and personal essay. The thirty-one year old Brooklynite teaches nonfiction and writes a...
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