Some of you complain that I never get you anything for National Audiobook Month, but that simply isn’t true sarahlayden.blogspot.com/2026/06/audi...

Summer weekend reading 🏖️🏄‍♂️

You will put these beach reads down so fast. Thanks, @litoldladyhaha.bsky.social !! www.littleoldladycomedy.com/all-works/to...

MacFarlane: I'm filling a notebook with misinformation spreading about January 6th today. The idea that these cases were wrongful, no case was overturned, not a one on appeal. And lots of people appealed. They had a 100% success rate for juries at trial.

Stay Real Make Art For humans, by humans. Proceeds benefit humans who make things. T-shirts, mugs, notebooks. A soft launch Saturday w/more to come. www.bonfire.com/store/stay-r...

Happy Black History Month! To quote brilliant anthropologist & writer Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960): "If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it." Rec'd: Their Eyes Were Watching God; Barracoon; Alice Walker's 1975 essay, "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston."

Me, every time I open this website: <whispers> "banksy"

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Saturday at Indy Reads Books, 5:30 p.m.! I'm so excited to have a conversation with Melissa Fraterrigo about her excellent and necessary book, The Perils of Girlhood. This memoir-in-essays floored me. Come join us.

Saturday at Indy Reads Books, 5:30 p.m.! I'm so excited to have a conversation with Melissa Fraterrigo about her excellent and necessary book, The Perils of Girlhood. This memoir-in-essays floored me. Come join us.

So great to chat with Dave Lindquist about Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest, happening today at the Harrison Center. My love of notebooks and eavesdropping are undeniable. (And: I've been following Dave's music and arts reporting since the '90s, so this was especially fun for me.)

New at Slackjaw! medium.com/slackjaw/i-a...

New at Slackjaw! medium.com/slackjaw/i-a...

Me, every time I open this website: <whispers> "banksy"

Session & bio for Saturday's Gathering of Writers "No Joke: Satire and Humor that Surprises"...Sarah Layden's satire appears in McSweeney’s, WaPo, Salon, The Belladonna, Points in Case, and elsewhere, but not The New Yorker’s Shouts and Murmurs. 🙃 www.indianawriters.org/product/gath...

This Friday, 9/19! Register for a free daylong writing event at Medium. I'm speaking on time management for writers, 11:30 AM EDT. medium.com/@sarahlayden...

Boston! Recs for things to do on Saturday night?

This just in: It's entirely possible to meet yr own arbitrary word count goals if you're willing to write badly. And I'm doing it, baby! #ReviseLater #WIP #workinprogress #book #sabbatical

Last week's view on the Inca Trail, en route to Machu Picchu

Indy people! At 6pm I’ll be chatting with Barbara Shoup about her new book, ABOUT GRACE, at Dream Palace Books downtown. Come by!

“It takes you from day to night, and from perimenopause to menopause.” By Sarah Layden Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/midlife-invi...

Who knew there was a psychology behind invited unfriending on social media? (A group of psychologists, apparently.) My new humor piece, "Unfriend Me Now," is live at Muse & Fury Lit museandfurylit.com/2025/05/13/u...

AP sues 3 Trump administration officials, citing freedom of speech apnews.com/article/ap-l...

Like #SNL50 and Sally O’Malley, I’m fifty (and a day)! I can also kick, stretch, and kick, and really shoulda stretched before that first kick.

I'm teaching an in-person fiction workshop for Indiana Writers Center this spring, which will be a blend of exercises, instruction, and critique. If you're looking for accountability, support, and feedback, check it out & consider registering! www.indianawriters.org/product/layd...

Happy Black History Month! To quote brilliant anthropologist & writer Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960): "If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it." Rec'd: Their Eyes Were Watching God; Barracoon; Alice Walker's 1975 essay, "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston."

I haven’t forgotten #January6 www.salon.com/2021/11/20/r...

Devouring this novel I’m reading with a knife and fork; same one I gave up on a couple years ago, despite loving the writer’s other books. Timing is all. Some things aren’t for you until they are.

Watched the movie Small Things Like These, based on the Claire Keegan novel. Both are excellent.

Oh HI! Close to home & close to my heart: Looking forward to joining the Lawrence Library book club to discuss Imagine Your Life Like This. Drop by if you're free! Tues. 12/17 at 10:30 a.m. indianapolis.libnet.info/event/11562282

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