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Sarah Viren

Sarah Viren
Sarah Viren is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and author of the essay collection Mine, which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, and the memoir To Name the Bigger Lie, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and named a best book of the year by NPR and LitHub in 2023. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and a National Magazine Award finalist, Viren teaches in the creative writing program at Arizona State University.
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Melissa Febos on the Unexpected Joys, Discoveries, and Sexiness of Celibacy

The Author of “The Dry Season” in Conversation with Sarah Viren
June 4, 2025  By Sarah Viren
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Portrait of ChatGPT as a Young Artist: Vauhini Vara on Voice, Tech, and Using AI in Writing

Sarah Viren Talks to the Author of “Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age”
April 9, 2025  By Sarah Viren
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Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster

Sarah Viren Talks to the Author of “Immemorial”
February 7, 2025  By Sarah Viren
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American Nightmare: Alice Driver on the Immigrants Who Risked Their Lives at a Meatpacking Plant During Covid

The Author of “Life and Death of the American Worker” in Conversation with Sarah Viren
September 5, 2024  By Sarah Viren
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A Painful, Urgent Reimagining: Emily van Duyne on Writing a New History of Sylvia Plath’s Last Years

Sarah Viren in Conversation with the Author of “Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation”
July 10, 2024  By Sarah Viren
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Elisa Gabbert on the Philosophy and Process Behind the Poem and the Essay

Sarah Viren Talks to the Author of “Any Person is the Only Self”
June 12, 2024  By Sarah Viren
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Emily Raboteau and Sarah Viren on Climate Change, Birding, and Social Justice

A Conversation with the Author of “Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against the Apocalypse”
March 11, 2024  By Sarah Viren
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It’s Not Personal: Sarah Viren on Essayistic Visions of the Self

“As we work to fashion a fully rendered version of ourselves, however, we are also arguably creating that self.”
June 13, 2023  By Sarah Viren
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Writing with Jack Kerouac, Ghost Father

Sarah Viren Contemplates Parenthood at the Kerouac House Residency
March 20, 2018  By Sarah Viren
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