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Writers

Sarah Smarsh

Health

There Is No Shame Worse Than Poor Teeth in a Rich World

Life in America without dental care.

Sarah Smarsh Aeon Oct 2014 15min Permalink

Country Pride: What I Learned Growing Up in Rural America

For me, country was not a look, a style, or even a conscious attitude, but a physical place, its experience defined by distance from the forces of culture that would commodify it.

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Excerpted from Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth.

Sarah Smarsh The Guardian Sep 2018 15min Permalink

Politics

How the American Left Is Rediscovering Morality

On the emergence of morality and spirituality on the American left.

Sarah Smarsh The Guardian Aug 2018 15min Permalink