Sarah Laing

Guest writer

Sarah Laing lives in Wellington and is the author of two novels and a remarkable graphic memoir, Mansfield and Me, published in 2016. She writes and draws with flair and brilliance. Sarah was born in 1973 in Champaign-Urbana but promptly relocated to Palmerston North. (photo credit: Grant Maiden)

Vic Books Pipitea (Image: Tina Tiller)

Vic Books and the crumbling of an ecosystem

On the impending demise of a Wellington literary institution.

By Sarah Laing | 15th June, 2022

Self-portraits.

Let Me Be Frank: an essay about creativity and comics by Sarah Laing

Wellington writer, illustrator and Katherine Mansfield obsessive Sarah Laing has a new book out tomorrow. Here, she tells its origin story.

By Sarah Laing | 9th October, 2019

Book of the Week: Sarah Laing on ‘the kind of novel I don’t like to read – the one in which terrible things happen to children’

Book of the Week: Sarah Laing on ‘the kind of novel I don’t like to read – the one in which terrible things happen to children’

Sarah Laing reviews The Tidal Zone by Granta Books novelist Sarah Moss.

By Sarah Laing | 8th September, 2016

Book of the Week: Sarah Laing reviews THAT novel about the Manson Family

Book of the Week: Sarah Laing reviews THAT novel about the Manson Family

Sarah Laing reviews the much-hyped Emma Cline, whose debut novel is a riff on the mad chicks of the Manson Family.

By Sarah Laing | 14th July, 2016

Rose Tremain.

Book of the week: Sarah Laing reviews Rose Tremain

"Erich’s lover, the wonderfully sensual Lottie, loves to eat millefeuilles and masturbate": Sarah Laing enters the imaginative world of novelist Rose Tremain.

By Sarah Laing | 23rd June, 2016