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Our Existence Is Resistance - Yoni ki Raat

2015 Yoni ki Raat cast, via FacebookI was mildly dreading the South Asian Vagina Monologues, but Rati got me a ticket. So I drank some gin and hunkered down for the two-hour show. My dread was...

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Malingerings

My summer project is to get out of the city as much as possible, ostensibly to write my boxing novel but so far just to procrastinate, hence this blog post, and malinger, which is my new favorite word....

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Terminal 2

I'm killing six hours in Charles de Gaule while I wait for Annie to fetch me. Paris, where everyone looks beautiful and even being sleep-deprived in an airport feels luxurious.I met Annie five years...

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How I Spent My Summer Vacation

I was having too much fun to blog.Paris was supposed to be a writing retreat, but so many of my friends were passing through that it wound up being like Rick's Cafe in Casablanca.My hostess Annie was...

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Champs

Look who rolled though town this week! Claressa Shields was appearing on the Harry Connick Jr show as a surprise to an eleven-year-old who idolized her. But they had a surprise for Claressa, too: her...

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Chronic Inflammation or What I Did This Week Instead of Working on My Novel

Warning: This post contains inflammatory language, because I am mildly inflamed after a weird week of stupidly arguing about politics with everybody, eating too many sandwiches, and getting zero work...

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Two Referees at the Great Wall of China Gift Shop

Many thanks to my friend and yoga student, Jai, for giving me a place to go to finish my novel GRAVITY.Here's a scene I cut from the novel. Takes place at the gift shop at the Great Wall of China. Our...

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Please Help Our Gym

For the past six years, I've been coaching and tutoring at NYC Cops and Kids, a nonprofit community boxing gym in Brooklyn. The gym has become my second family, and I feel lucky every day to come to...

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New Novel, New Website!

Please head over to sarahdeming.nyc for updates on my new novel, Gravity! 

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Theatre Review: Robert Icke's Hamlet at the Armory

My high school English teacher Kristine very generously gave me and my husband tickets to see Hamlet at the Armory, playing through August in repertory with the Oresteia. She did this after reading the...

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