Sari Botton
@saribotton.bsky.social
Bestselling Author/Editor/Teacher/Oldster Memoir: And You May Find Yourself… Anthologies: Goodbye to All That and Never Can Say Goodbye Newsletters: @oldstermag.bsky.social, @memoirland.bsky.social, Adventures in *Journalism* http://saribotton.com
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Sari Botton
@saribotton.bsky.social
· Jul 16
What my husband lovingly calls my "media empire." substack.com/@saribotton
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Thanks @saribotton.bsky.social for featuring my Memoir Land questionnaire in this roundup. I love everything you do and wish we lived closer to each other so we could hang out. @melvillehouse.bsky.social
The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire in Review...
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire in Review...
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire in Review...
A look at a handful of interviews from earlier in the series.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Thanks @saribotton.bsky.social for featuring my Memoir Land questionnaire in this roundup. I love everything you do and wish we lived closer to each other so we could hang out. @melvillehouse.bsky.social
The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire in Review...
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire in Review...
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My brain always conflated Air Mail and Puck, so it’s convenient for me that they will now be conflated in an official capacity.
November 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
My brain always conflated Air Mail and Puck, so it’s convenient for me that they will now be conflated in an official capacity.
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Honored that my HuffPost essay about the domestic violence behind a model minority facade was included in @saribotton.bsky.social's Memoir Mondays, “a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web.”
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We Looked Like A 'Model Minority' Family. No One Knew What My Father Was Doing Behind Closed Doors.
"Even after I graduated as valedictorian of my high school, got accepted into a top MBA program, and became a wife and mother, the silence stayed with me."
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November 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Honored that my HuffPost essay about the domestic violence behind a model minority facade was included in @saribotton.bsky.social's Memoir Mondays, “a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/immigr...
www.huffpost.com/entry/immigr...
Team Personal Essays, obviously. (That's me, circa July 2019, wearing a gift from a houseguest.)
October 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Team Personal Essays, obviously. (That's me, circa July 2019, wearing a gift from a houseguest.)
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"I love the flow state and feeling like I enter another dimension while creating." Wonderful interview with @saribotton.bsky.social and @oldstermag.bsky.social! MOTION DAZZLE by @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social is out now from @vineleavespress.bsky.social.
The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #145: Jocelyn Jane Cox
"One of my many goals with this book was to portray the complexities and devastation of dementia and to share the little-told story of caregivers."
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October 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"I love the flow state and feeling like I enter another dimension while creating." Wonderful interview with @saribotton.bsky.social and @oldstermag.bsky.social! MOTION DAZZLE by @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social is out now from @vineleavespress.bsky.social.
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Amy Rigby!!!
This is next Weds! I spoke with @joedonahue.bsky.social on @wamcradio.bsky.social's Roundtable about it yesterday. It's going to be fun.... www.wamc.org/podcast/the-...
September 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Amy Rigby!!!
This is next Weds! I spoke with @joedonahue.bsky.social on @wamcradio.bsky.social's Roundtable about it yesterday. It's going to be fun.... www.wamc.org/podcast/the-...
September 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is next Weds! I spoke with @joedonahue.bsky.social on @wamcradio.bsky.social's Roundtable about it yesterday. It's going to be fun.... www.wamc.org/podcast/the-...
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Thanks to @saribotton.bsky.social for publishing an excerpt from FONSECA. Fitzgerald, who didn’t publish her first novel until she was 60, would have been delighted with @oldstermag.bsky.social, I think.
#penelopefitzgerald #booksky
#penelopefitzgerald #booksky
Day of the Dead
"Learning about Penelope Fitzgerald’s life changed mine." An excerpt of 'Fonseca: A Novel,' with an introduction from the author.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Thanks to @saribotton.bsky.social for publishing an excerpt from FONSECA. Fitzgerald, who didn’t publish her first novel until she was 60, would have been delighted with @oldstermag.bsky.social, I think.
#penelopefitzgerald #booksky
#penelopefitzgerald #booksky
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This quote is such a gut punch.
"Being 52 has really shone a spotlight on how much of my life was wasted in the tractor beam of the male gaze. I mourn that loss of time and experience and freedom like mourning the passing of a loved one." Neko Case took the Oldster Magazine Questionnaire!!!
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This is 52: Neko Case Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"I dye half of my hair. I like the silver at the front, but I missed the red so I compromised."
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September 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
This quote is such a gut punch.
Get ready for the 1st @oldstermag.bsky.social event at Unicorn Bar in Kingston, NY Weds., 10/1, the night before my 60th birthday. Featuring: Amy Rigby, Chris Wells, Joan Juliet Buck, Carolita Johnson, Brian Macaluso, Francesca Hoffman, and, of course, me! Get tix:
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September 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Get ready for the 1st @oldstermag.bsky.social event at Unicorn Bar in Kingston, NY Weds., 10/1, the night before my 60th birthday. Featuring: Amy Rigby, Chris Wells, Joan Juliet Buck, Carolita Johnson, Brian Macaluso, Francesca Hoffman, and, of course, me! Get tix:
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www.viewcy.com/event/oldste...
In my next life I’m coming back as a member of the Dimes Square scene so that those publications obsessed with it will take even a passing interest in my work.
September 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In my next life I’m coming back as a member of the Dimes Square scene so that those publications obsessed with it will take even a passing interest in my work.
Team Liz Gilbert. Team memoir. Team wearing your insides on the outside, even when (especially when) they're not very attractive, so that the others of us with similar insides can better understand them. Team progress not perfection. Team...I'm away on vacation so I'm not going to respond.
August 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Team Liz Gilbert. Team memoir. Team wearing your insides on the outside, even when (especially when) they're not very attractive, so that the others of us with similar insides can better understand them. Team progress not perfection. Team...I'm away on vacation so I'm not going to respond.
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Many thanks to @saribotton.bsky.social for including me in the wonderful Memoir Land author questionnaire. If you’re not subscribed, you should be!
The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #129: Jackie Domenus
"'No Offense' analyzes the loaded conversations queer and trans folks face every day on topics like labels, haircuts, Halloween costumes, and more."
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August 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Many thanks to @saribotton.bsky.social for including me in the wonderful Memoir Land author questionnaire. If you’re not subscribed, you should be!
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Happy 22nd anniversary of the August, 2003 east coast blackout to all who celebrate. Here's a remembrance of it by @brianmacaluso.bsky.social.
memoirland.substack.com/p/lights-out
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Lights Out
Brian Macaluso looks back at the August, 2003 blackout in New York City.
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August 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Happy 22nd anniversary of the August, 2003 east coast blackout to all who celebrate. Here's a remembrance of it by @brianmacaluso.bsky.social.
memoirland.substack.com/p/lights-out
memoirland.substack.com/p/lights-out
"The restaurant was dimly lit, particularly toward the back, where the bar is. Maybe he couldn’t see that I have a full head of gray hair. That I’m almost 60. That I was wearing a wedding band." - moi
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All the Young Dudes
In which I inadvertently discover that at almost 60 I can still "get It" despite what the culture (and some exes) would have me believe. Random thoughts on older women + younger men, and vice versa.
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August 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
"The restaurant was dimly lit, particularly toward the back, where the bar is. Maybe he couldn’t see that I have a full head of gray hair. That I’m almost 60. That I was wearing a wedding band." - moi
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oldster.substack.com/p/all-the-yo...
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Sari can get it! I have had to keep starting and stopping her memoir asking myself “why are men?” So I’m thrilled to read this - for both her loving marriage and a sweet encounter with a nice young man. 💪
Diary of an almost-60-year-old who was told she'd soon be invisible.
oldster.substack.com/p/all-the-yo...
oldster.substack.com/p/all-the-yo...
All the Young Dudes
In which I inadvertently discover that at almost 60 I can still "get It" despite what the culture (and some exes) would have me believe. Random thoughts on older women + younger men, and vice versa.
oldster.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Sari can get it! I have had to keep starting and stopping her memoir asking myself “why are men?” So I’m thrilled to read this - for both her loving marriage and a sweet encounter with a nice young man. 💪
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“It’s a bit of an obscenity that I’m asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust…Why aren’t we listening to the Palestinians?”
Auschwitz-survivor Gabor Maté: Gaza genocide 'the worst thing I've seen in my whole life.'
“It's a bit of an obscenity that I'm asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust…Why aren't we listening t...
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August 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“It’s a bit of an obscenity that I’m asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust…Why aren’t we listening to the Palestinians?”
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. @saribotton.bsky.social has got it going on. Seriously.
Her latest piece is a frank look at women dating younger men. Like everything she writes, it's smart and funny.
oldster.substack.com/p/all-the-yo...
Her latest piece is a frank look at women dating younger men. Like everything she writes, it's smart and funny.
oldster.substack.com/p/all-the-yo...
All the Young Dudes
In which I inadvertently discover that at almost 60 I can still "get It" despite what the culture (and some exes) would have me believe. Random thoughts on older women + younger men, and vice versa.
oldster.substack.com
August 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
. @saribotton.bsky.social has got it going on. Seriously.
Her latest piece is a frank look at women dating younger men. Like everything she writes, it's smart and funny.
oldster.substack.com/p/all-the-yo...
Her latest piece is a frank look at women dating younger men. Like everything she writes, it's smart and funny.
oldster.substack.com/p/all-the-yo...
Diary of an almost-60-year-old who was told she'd soon be invisible.
oldster.substack.com/p/all-the-yo...
oldster.substack.com/p/all-the-yo...
All the Young Dudes
In which I inadvertently discover that at almost 60 I can still "get It" despite what the culture (and some exes) would have me believe. Random thoughts on older women + younger men, and vice versa.
oldster.substack.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Diary of an almost-60-year-old who was told she'd soon be invisible.
oldster.substack.com/p/all-the-yo...
oldster.substack.com/p/all-the-yo...
TSA Pre, or Global Entry? (Traveling to Portugal at the end of this month.)
August 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
TSA Pre, or Global Entry? (Traveling to Portugal at the end of this month.)
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How I Learned magazine is LIVE and Jennifer Stewart has a few things to say to you. Come in, come in, and subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/howilear...
Are You There, God? It's Me, Celibate.
Jennifer Stewart's West Texas college was known for its commitment to conservatism and its high concentration of STDs.
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August 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
How I Learned magazine is LIVE and Jennifer Stewart has a few things to say to you. Come in, come in, and subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/howilear...
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Ever the #Lateadopter trying to catch up on BlueSky! Here is my piece on @oldstermag.bsky.social . Thank you @saribotton.bsky.social
This is (Almost) 52: Empowerment Author Meg Stone Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"Nothing is surprising about being a childless, queer Gen-X-er in my early 50s, because I grew up having no idea what my life would look like."
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August 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Ever the #Lateadopter trying to catch up on BlueSky! Here is my piece on @oldstermag.bsky.social . Thank you @saribotton.bsky.social
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How do you feel about "dressing your age"? Weigh in here:
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What Does It Mean to "Dress Your Age"? `
Trying on clothes at Eileen Fisher; my ambivalence toward dressing "grown-up"; and challenging old assumptions. PLUS an open thread where you can chime in on your "age-appropriate" (or not) style.
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August 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
How do you feel about "dressing your age"? Weigh in here:
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Honored and thrilled to join @brendanomeara.bsky.social on the Creative Nonfiction Podcast today. We talked about the state of journalism and storytelling, some early #longreads lore, and why I love taking voice lessons.
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Episode 481: Nieman Storyboard's Mark Armstrong Believes in the Beginners' Mindset
Podcast Episode · The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara · 08/01/2025 · 1h 7m
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August 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Honored and thrilled to join @brendanomeara.bsky.social on the Creative Nonfiction Podcast today. We talked about the state of journalism and storytelling, some early #longreads lore, and why I love taking voice lessons.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Was just thinking I want a do-over for this summer—an oppressive extended heatwave, at least where I am. It’s kept me from being outside in the sunshine, a necessary balm at any time, but even more so in these times. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
American Summers Are Starting to Feel Like Winter
Extreme weather is keeping more people stuck inside.
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July 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Was just thinking I want a do-over for this summer—an oppressive extended heatwave, at least where I am. It’s kept me from being outside in the sunshine, a necessary balm at any time, but even more so in these times. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...