Sarah Bird
Sarah Bird
June 30, 2011
Sink or Swim
In an excerpt from Sarah Bird's new novel The Gap Year, a single mom prepares to send her only daughter off to college. Guess which one is a wreck.
Books
May 31, 2008
Desperate Housewives
In this excerpt from writer-at-large Sarah Bird’s new novel, How Perfect Is That, the realities of life in early twenty-first century Austin become all-too-clear to a defrocked socialite.
Book Review
May 31, 2008
How Perfect Is That
How Perfect Is That marks Sarah Bird’s return to the madcap plotting that was her stylistic calling card in late-eighties novels like The Boyfriend School. It’s an entertaining flashback, but why now? The Texas Monthly writer-at-large was coming off her two finest novels, The Yokota Officers Club
Sarah Bird
May 31, 2008
This Year’s Model
Hey, captains of industry: If Dr. Evil can have a Mini Me, why can’t the rest of us?
Sarah Bird
March 31, 2008
In a Lather
My Petco encounter with a shampoo celebrity.
Sarah Bird
February 1, 2008
Geezer Nation
Greetings from Snowbirdlandia! Wish you were old.
Food & Drink
January 1, 2008
Home Groan
One year (okay, two days) of livin’ la vida locavore.