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March 3, 2021
Enjoy a Playground Zero author event with Sarah Relyea
Playground Zero author event! more info buy book Enjoy a zoom reading and discussion of Playground Zero with author Sarah Relyea Watch now The event was hosted in Mendocino, California, on February 16, 2021.
August 16, 2020
Baby Boomers in COVID Time: Nothing Has Changed, and Nothing Is the Same
Baby Boomers’ Impeachment Replay During late January 2020, the ongoing scandals and impeachment efforts focused on Donald Trump dominated America’s political landscape. Calls for impeachment had begun early, even before Trump’s inauguration; three years later, impeachment was finally in full swing, upstaging the 2020 primary season. If the proceedings felt oddly irrelevant, it was because […]
June 30, 2020
Playground Zero – 2020 Virtual Tour
Take the 2020 Playground Zero virtual tour You can view the 2020 Playground Zero virtual tour online. It includes reviews, podcasts, essays by author Sarah Relyea, and more. Playground Zero was published on June 9, 2020. BUY BOOK Featured reviews: August 1: Historical Novel Society (review by G. J. Berger) August 26: Readers’ Favorite (5-star review) Book […]
June 13, 2020
Playground Zero Book Launch Is Here!
Playground Zero news and events: Playground Zero was released by She Writes Press on Tuesday, June 9. June 9 through July 8: Follow the virtual tour, which includes book giveaways, reviews, podcasts, essays and articles by author Sarah Relyea, and more. Click here for the tour schedule and links. Now through June 16 only: The […]
May 16, 2020
Playground Zero – 2020 Virtual Tour
Take the 2020 Playground Zero virtual tour You can view the 2020 Playground Zero virtual tour online. It includes reviews, podcasts, essays by author Sarah Relyea, and more. Playground Zero was published on June 9, 2020. Featured reviews: August 1: Historical Novel Society (review by G. J. Berger) August 26: Readers Favorite (5-star review) Reviews June […]
Virtual Tour: Playground Zero, A Novel
Playground Zero release date: June 9 Even with in-person events canceled throughout New York City and much of the United States, you can still help celebrate the release of Playground Zero by following the links below. The virtual tour runs from June 9–July 8 and includes book giveaways, reviews, podcasts, essays and articles by author Sarah […]
May 7, 2020
Of Masks and Masquerade: The Treacherous Streets
When I leave my apartment these days, there’s that nagging thought: could I become a murder weapon? Could I be asymptomatic and unknowingly infect someone? And so I put on my mask and walk the uncrowded streets. I go forth armed against the deadly anarchy of the everyday, the damage I might do merely by […]
April 26, 2020
Requiem for my uncle
April is the cruelest month In early April, as the pandemic was raging through New York City, transforming my home into another Ground Zero, I awoke to an ominous email. My uncle would be having back surgery. Although he was in the Hudson Valley, a place less overwhelmed by fear and death, the local hospital […]
April 18, 2020
Sympathy for the Devil during Lockdown Brooklyn
A new computer model shows that during the summer of 2020, America’s lockdown could lead to revolution. As the pandemic of protest spreads through population centers in state after state, most of you will be asymptomatic: no outrage, no agenda, no revolt. Real rebels need not apply. You will simply gather on your street corners […]
April 11, 2020
Once Ground Zero, Always Ground Zero
At Ground Zero, we thought we’d grown immune to danger, fear, and death. Then the pandemic struck. Eight million strong, yet we’re alone on our germ-infested streets. We rush through our errands like scavengers, cringing as we pass each other, eyeballing the enemy. Cringing from the world itself. On a pleasant city street, a woman […]
