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The Gospel According to Sarah

  • Writer: Sarah Sturm
    Sarah Sturm
  • Apr 15
  • 2 min read

TheGospel According to Sarah Sturm

About Me

I am Sarah Sturm. I’m 26 and have lived half my life in rural Virginia and the other half in North Jersey, where I currently reside. I did a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature with a minor in Arabic at Montclair State University. I currently work in the publishing industry in New York City. I’m a December Sagittarius. I live with my little sister and two beloved cats.


Thing I Love

  • Calling kissing “smooching” 

  • Singing I’d Rather Go Blind by Etta James to my cat Figgy

  • Delusional hope as a motivating force

  • Art that requires technical skill

  • Real townie bars 

  • Weak joints

  • Telling people to “pour one out for me” when I can’t make it to the hangout

  • Quiet nights with friends who give me the strength

  • Talking about dead loved ones

  • Cleverness

  • Sincerity

  • Canned fish

  • Artists who only release music once every few years

  • A mountain, an ocean, a city 


Desires

  • The ability to run on less than eight hours of sleep — any less than this, my entire life falls apart 

  • To listen to every song ever made across all genres

  • A permanent cure to eczema, which has been near-permanent on my right hand for five years. I call it my grandfather hand

  • To publish a book someday

  • Less attachment to my desires


Hobbies

  • Nighttime walks in the late summer and early fall

  • Journaling obsessively, reading consistently

  • Practicing guitar in the morning and night

  • Spending months rewriting the same three lines of a poem

  • Consuming political commentary

  • Small talk with strangers


Current Favorites

  • Trees and Flowers by Strawberry Switchblade

  • The Majazz Project

  • The Idiot by Elif Batuman

  • The Sopranos

  • Everything Charlie Kaufman has made


Core Values

  • Take advantage of being young and healthy for as long as you can. We are young and have time even if we’re at the age where everyone says we’re getting old and running out of time

  • We should all believe in at least one fantastical thing

  • Quality over quantity 

  • Laugh as often as you can

  • If you’re going to be extremely online, at least know what’s happening in the world

  • Knowledge is power, knowledge should breed action

  • Free Palestine





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