Sari Botton, Author at Longreads

How to Write a Memoir While Grieving

by Sari Botton March 1, 2018October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which Nicole Chung contemplates loss, adoption, and working on a book her late father won’t get to see.

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Monica Lewinsky: Emerging From “the House of Gaslight” in the Age of #MeToo

by Sari Botton February 26, 2018October 19, 2022

On the 20th anniversary of Ken Starr’s investigation of President Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky reconsiders her relationship with Clinton — 27 years her senior — through the lens of the #MeToo moment, and realizes that given their power differential, the word “consensual” might not perfectly apply.

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My Abuser’s Gender Made Me Doubt My Experience

by Sari Botton February 26, 2018October 19, 2022

In this personal essay, for years after an assault, Caroline Catlin questions the safety of queerness.

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Brendan Fraser’s #MeToo Moment

by Sari Botton February 23, 2018October 19, 2022

Actor Brendan Fraser reveals he was touched inappropriately — and says it’s behind why he vanished from the scene for more than a decade.

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Grief is a Jumble Word

by Sari Botton February 23, 2018October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which Ken Otterbourg contemplates love and loss, and what we remember when we try to forget.

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What Ever Happened to Brendan Fraser?

by Sari Botton February 22, 2018January 25, 2023

A profile of actor Brendan Fraser — who was popular in the ’90s for movies like School Ties, and has been making something of a comeback since he was cast in The Affair in 2016. Fraser reveals that in 2003 he was touched inappropriately by Philip Berk, a former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press […]

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