Barry White’s “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe” was playing as the Black cowboy stood on his saddle and started dancing. This was 1978, at a raucous nighttime rodeo in Bastrop, Texas, and Sarah ...
Sarah Bird, who has released a dozen novels over the last two decades, drew on her own family history for inspiration in "Last Dance on the Starlight Pier." Julia Robinson / Special Contributor Many ...
Bird submitted her photos of Black rodeos to publications everywhere, but all were rejected. Now, 50 years and 11 novels later, there has been a revived interest in the world of Black rodeos (perhaps ...
Sarah Bird is reluctant to say this, but Blythe Young — social climber, reprobate and main character in Bird's new novel — is America. "Nobody's going to read this book if I say Blythe Young is ...
Sarah Bird's new novel is a Cinderella story. Although when it begins, her Cinderella has already married the prince, divorced him, and been booted from the palace not by a wicked stepmother but by a ...