Sarah Relyea's Blog

Recorded book event with Sarah Relyea and Michael Bourne! Enjoy a reading and discussion of my 1960s coming-of-age novel, Playground Zero, and Michael Bourne’s Blithedale Canyon, set in 2001. Our novels unfold amidst the upheaval and gentrification of Bay Area neighborhoods. Some characters struggle to make sense of the 1960s world of revolutionaries and dream-makers, […]

Book event! Hippies to Yuppies: Troubled Protagonists in San Francisco Join me and novelist Michael Bourne on Wednesday, December 13 at 6:30pm for a reading and discussion of my 1960s coming-of-age novel, Playground Zero, and Michael’s Blithedale Canyon, set in 2001. Our novels unfold amidst the upheaval and gentrification of Bay Area neighborhoods. Some characters struggle to make […]

EVENT!!! Join me at the 440 Gallery on Sunday, August 20 at 4pm. Author Loretta Goldberg and I read from our novels, followed by Q&A and refreshments. While you’re there, take in Robin Epstein’s collage series, “In the Vortex: My Trauma Chronicles.” The 440 Gallery is located at 440 Sixth Avenue @ Ninth Street in Park […]

Begin with Part 1: Finding Ariel Part 5: Ariel Returns         Though New York City had been overwhelmed by the early pandemic, Robin and I had been weirdly spared: so far, we’d lost no one to its ravages. No one we knew had been in grave danger, at least not from the disease itself, though […]

Begin with Part 1: Finding Ariel Part 4: Is There a Passport Back to Normal Life?        The pandemic had been going for about a year. Confined to our Brooklyn neighborhood, we’d become dependent on news reports, social media, and a handful of personal contacts for information about the world—for human companionship and […]

Begin with Part 1: Finding Ariel Part 4: Is There a Passport Back to Normal Life?        The pandemic had been going for about a year. Confined to our Brooklyn neighborhood, we’d become dependent on news reports, social media, and a handful of personal contacts for information about the world—for human companionship and […]

Begin with Part 1: Finding Ariel Part 3: A Pandemic Ghost Town        And so things stood when the pandemic made New York City a ground zero again. When the crisis began, I was working out of my small apartment across Prospect Park. No rural cottage shaded by beech or silver maple, the […]

Begin with Part 1: Finding Ariel Part 3: A Pandemic Ghost Town        And so things stood when the pandemic made New York City a ground zero again. When the crisis began, I was working out of my small apartment across Prospect Park. No rural cottage shaded by beech or silver maple, the […]

Begin with Part 1: Finding Ariel Part 2: Ariel Tames Us        When we were safely away from the door, I let the cat go. She fled immediately under the couch. For nearly three days, through gale winds and flood and low-racing clouds, she was a ghost presence, crouched in secret spaces she […]

Read Part 1: Finding Ariel Part 2: Ariel Tames Us        When we were safely away from the door, I let the cat go. She fled immediately under the couch. For nearly three days, through gale winds and flood and low-racing clouds, she was a ghost presence, crouched in secret spaces she found […]