sarah mccarry

@sarahmccarry

writer, roué. POSSESSION ISLAND out in december 2026 it's got vampires in it

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sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· 5d

ok that's all i got for now but enjoy this Special Bonus Content of me holding my copy of How Far the Light Reaches on a tallship under sail

my gloved hand holding up a copy of sabrina imbler's How Far the Light Reaches against a backdrop of a ship's deck and a slice of ocean

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· 16d

i quite disliked the carson piece but this does neatly sum up christopher nolan’s entire oeuvre

Nolan’s Odyssey lacks many of the elements that make the poem great. It has nothing convincing to say about time, memory, history, war, or about the relationship between one warrior’s glorious return and the lives of his family, adversaries, comrades, friends and neighbours. It lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth. Its narrative structure is gimmicky. The writing is abysmal. None of the characters has convincing motivation for their actions or words. There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· 22d

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· 29d

pouring one out for an absolute legend. may your ducks carry you safely to the other side, good sir

a shot of sam neill looking gross and scary in the gross and very scary movie “event horizon”

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Jul 2

WE WERE FUCKING ROBBED www.screenslate.com/articles/hol...

screen shot of a "screen slate" interview with foxfire director annette haywood-carter. text reads:

AHS: So you know the scene on the roof where Legs and Maddie are talking, and they touch each other’s cheeks. Well, in the script and in what we shot, they kissed.

ML: What!

AHS: And the company made me take the kiss out.

ML: No way.

AHS: And a year later the head of the company told me it was a mistake. Because right after, suddenly, you have like Ellen DeGeneres kissing on her show and there was mainstream marketing value in the lesbian kiss, or whatever, and we didn’t have one because they forced me to take it out. It’s a beautiful scene, and the center of it still holds without the kiss, but I look back on it and I think, Really should’ve kept it in there, guys. I’ve never told anybody that before.

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Jun 16

the leonora carrington tarot appreciator

a small perfect tabby cat with one paw resting on a copy of The Tarot of Leonora Carrington

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· May 21

saturday books made a TRAILER for my BOOK!!!!!!! which you can preorder HERE 🧛 bookshop.org/p/books/poss...

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· May 13

our large handsome neighbor has taken to stealing entire bread rolls from somewhere (????) and leaving them to soften for several hours in the birdbath before returning to collect them

a large handsome raven perched on a birdbath with a piece of roll the large handsome raven has previously left to soak for the afternoon

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Apr 15

look what i have GOT !!!! this maximalist gothic TREAT is available for PREORDER it has got LESBIAN VAMPIRES in it and also a number of BAD DECISIONS as well as many SEMICOLONS because that's how we ROLL bookshop.org/p/books/poss...

a little stack of advance copies of my book, Possession Island

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Apr 6

when u want to touch grass so bad but you're not allowed outside

a small perfect tabby cat gazing avidly out an open window

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Apr 1

anyway

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Mar 31

friendly reminder

a poster that i made that says "fix your hearts or die" in gold on a green background with leaves and flowers

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Mar 27

just remembering the time ursula k le guin absolutely ethered joanne and her rancid little franchise. "[S]tylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited."

Q: Nicholas Lezard has written 'Rowling can type, but Le Guin can write.' What do you make of this comment in the light of the phenomenal success of the Potter books? I'd like to hear your opinion of JK Rowling's writing style
UKL: I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the "incredible originality" of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid's fantasy crossed with a "school novel", good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Mar 9

"What the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we're not supposed to dance at all anymore." –kurt vonnegut www.cbsnews.com/news/god-ble...

KURT VONNEGUT: Oh, she says well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.
I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know...

And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we're not supposed to dance at all anymore.

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Mar 7

your email not gonna find me for the next 72 hours minimum

my hand holding the hot hot hot british edition of francis spufford's new novel nonesuch

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Feb 18

"is there a technology the left is excited about" yes

sigourney weaver testing the flamethrower from aliens

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Feb 16

"If a book can make you understand a character’s wants, you’ll want them a little bit too, and you’ll follow the winding path of words to see what comes of it." will be thinking about this @jeannethornton.bsky.social interview probably forever www.publicbooks.org/conjuring-an...

"If a reader can understand a novel character’s want and the gravity of that want—what if feels like to be in that specific wanting body and mind—then they will catch some of that feeling themselves from the text, in the way that when you watch someone play sports, a tiny part of your brain is releasing sports endorphins into you too. If there is a material rather than spiritual substrate of empathy, this is it: Seeing pain we echo pain, seeing joy we echo joy. If a book can make you understand a character’s wants, you’ll want them a little bit too, and you’ll follow the winding path of words to see what comes of it. "

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Jan 26

"at the beginning of the bad time/we have come to think of as usual" phew this eleanor wilner poem!!! pages.jh.edu/jhumag/994we...

excerpted from "up against it" by eleanor wilner. "At the beginning of the bad time
we have come to think of as usual, they stood
a man here, against this wall, simply because
of what he was, something that made it hard
to do what they wanted,
so they thought that
if they killed him first, at the very beginning,
the rest would come easy, his blood like a red
door opening into the future in which the gypsy
wind, capricious, always eluding them,
would be stilled, tied in a sack;
and the everyday which wore them
down into grit under its heels, would disappear
into clouds of power; their boots would be real
leather, the rawhide smell from what they had taken
and hadn't the time to cure."

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Jan 6

apex predator has entered the chat

a small perfect tabby cat asleep on the top of the sofa with her legs hilariously akimbo

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Jan 2

woody guthrie's "new years rulin's" are my favorite esp 19. keep hoping machine running & 33. wake up and fight woodyguthrie.org/newyearsruli...

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Dec 30

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Dec 29

foots

the small perfect foot of a small perfect tabby cat

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Dec 22

"just get a fucking backbone and resist something you fucking animals." undersea icon julia armfield on AI (and the movies) juliaarmfield.substack.com/p/movies-are...

"it has been an extraordinarily difficult year to be alive in a world which feels increasingly like every once wonderful thing is being destroyed for no good reason, and we all just have to sit here while people we work with use chatgpt to make their emails politer, and ceos who have never met a human being declare that no one actually wants to leave their houses, and men who have never once felt natural light on their skin clog up every comments section typing “like it or not, ai is getting better all the time” over and over again. every other fucking day i feel like i have to read a headline like “musicians must embrace unstoppable force of ai, eurythmics’ dave stewart urges” and “like it or not, ai is here to stay“ says fifteenth spinal tap drummer directly before bursting into flames”, and every other fucking day i have to be like ok but why though why is this necessary why is this inevitable why do i have to embrace it why. i’m sorry but was aragorn really twatting around minas tirith going like it or not you have to embrace the awesome power of grond. just get a fucking backbone and resist something you fucking animals."

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Dec 18

who is this legend. show yourself, icon link.nymag.com/view/5c95655...

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Dec 16

would u like to see a very hot book cover for a very hot book that is available now for preorder here bookshop.org/p/books/poss...

it is the cover of my book! which is coming out next year! a moody sort of seascape with an island shaped like a lady coming out of the water and a creepy house atop the lady-shaped island. the book is called possession island

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Dec 5

was very apprehensive about rural nextdoor but rural nextdoor kind of slaps

a picture of some poops posted to nextdoor with the caption "anybody can figure out what kind of scat this is?? found this on my walk this a,m." in my non-expert opinion these are coyote poops

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Dec 2

truth coming out of her costco to shame many major universities and fancy law firms

my small perfect tabby cat making a silly face inside her costco shaped cardboard cat scratcher, which is available for purchase at costco

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Nov 20

oh look it's the ahab understander, too smart to need the book huh

a small perfect tabby cat curled up asleep on a sofa next to a copy of richard j king's book "Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick." idk if the book's good yet, i just started it, but i guess SHE doesn't need to read it, little smarty-pants thinks she's too good for BOOKS

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Nov 12

an old instagram selfie of me captioned "wild to realize there are people spending their one wild & precious life insisting on al gore's internet that moby dick is not gay"

sarah mccarry@sarahmccarry· Nov 8

idk who needs to hear this but costco sells a cat scratcher that looks like costco