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Sanibel
Sanibel grew up in Princeton and studied Classics at the University of Pennsylvania before getting her MFA at The New School. Her work has been published in New York Magazine, ELLE, Air Mail, and Lit Hub. She lives in Greenwich Village with her husband and is currently working on a satirical reimagining of the Odyssey from Athena's POV. Her first novel, To Have and Have More, is out now.


If I Was a Rich Girl, I’d Have All the Cover in the World: The Real Mean Girls of Classic Literature

Sanibel on Social Class, Undine Spragg, Becky Sharp, and Who Society Punishes in Art and Life
April 15, 2025  By Sanibel 
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An (Ongoing) Taxonomy of the Sad Rich Girls of Literature

Sanibel Lazar Proposes a System of Classification for Unhappy Endings Born of Blessed Circumstances
April 29, 2024  By Sanibel 
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Erewhon: or, The Worst Possible Name for a Grocery Store

Sanibel Chai on the Connections Between Samuel Butler’s Satirical Novel and $19 Smoothies
March 21, 2024  By Sanibel 
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