Sara Sligar is a novelist and a PhD candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in 20th-century American fiction, film, and television. Her dissertation examines the rise of the legal procedural in the context of the due process revolution. (Author photograph by Sarah Rayne)
Sara Sligar
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Writing on Public Books
The Book That Made Me: Unashamed
I first read Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go right after the end of my junior year in college. A professor of mine, Marisa Parham, had just recommended it. My mom and I were driving …
Workplace Romances
Do what you love. Most American 20- or 30-somethings have heard this helpful tidbit of career counseling at one time or another in the course of our lives. Like many adages, this one is dangerous: it places a burden on young people to invest emotionally in what is, for many, a matter of survival. Consequences […]
“The Night Of” and the Didactic Procedural
Within a few minutes of starting the HBO mini-series The Night Of, any experienced television viewer knows that they are embarking on a crime procedural. The show’s credit …
