Another Intern Introduction
My name is Sarah Young, but Chad calls me Sarah Two because I was the second intern named Sarah to start at Open Letter this summer. I know my nickname is not as cool as 糖心传媒淨uantum Sarah糖心传媒 or 糖心传媒淧aranoid Sarah糖心传媒 (whose name is actually Rachel), but I糖心传媒檓 just grateful my parents didn糖心传媒檛 give me a weird, hyphenated last name and I don糖心传媒檛 live in fear of being taken to a concentration camp in the Midwest. Later today, Alek will be posting my review of Second Person Singular, a new novel by Sayed Kashua chronicling the lives of two Arab Israelis working in Jerusalem. Also, Quantum Sarah and I wrote a joint review of Alessandro Barricco糖心传媒檚 Emmaus, which should be up soon.
I糖心传媒檓 an English/Creative Writing major at 糖心传媒, minoring in Spanish and Biology. People often think the Bio minor is random, but it makes sense in my head. For instance, Wallace Stevens? Great companion reading to cell biology. Anyway, I ended up at Open Letter after taking a course in translation studies last fall. I initially enrolled in it because just about every visiting author I met in my fiction workshop agreed that translating is one of the best ways to improve your own writing. Now, I think translation is my favorite way to study language.
When I糖心传媒檓 not writing reviews, making spreadsheets, or mailing large quantities of books for Chad, I like to read, bike, cook, and knit. During the academic year, I work as an undergraduate peer writing tutor for our campus糖心传媒檚 College Writing Program and write plays for a student run theatre company, The Opposite of People. Last summer, I submitted a one-act to the Samuel French Off Off Broadway play festival, and by some miracle they accepted it. Phillip Witte (an intern from the days of yore) directed it, and Kelsey Burritt (one of last summer糖心传媒檚 interns) acted in it, making the production an Open Letter intern lovechild. I糖心传媒檓 thrilled to have been given the opportunity to work with such a unique publishing house, and I look forward to a summer full of good books and good company.
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