A touching personal essay in which writer Ashley Ford reveals that she and her father are happily rebuilding their relationship now that he has been released from prison after 30 years. Slowly they are getting to know each other in ways they never before had. One of the more challenging aspects: bringing him up to […]
Sari Botton
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Diagnosis and Surgery I Had to Fight For
A series of doctors made it harder for me to learn about my severe uterine condition, and receive the hysterectomy I needed for it.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Can an Old Satire, Reborn, Survive the New Political Climate?
Meghan Daum is nervous about the reception for her reissued debut novel, a satire of small towns and coastal elites.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Quality of Life Report, 2017
A personal essay by author Meghan Daum in which she describes her trepidation around the re-issue of her 2003 debut novel, The Quality of Life Report. The book–about a New York television reporter who moves to the midwest–pokes fun at liberals, coastal elites and P.C. culture, and makes jokes about gender, race and class, all […]
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
‘Women and Girls Were Not Jumping Up and Down to be Interviewed’: Rukmini Callamichi on Interviewing ISIS Sex Slaves
The New York Times correspondent tells the story behind the story to Columbia Journalism Review.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Behind the Story: NYT’s Rukmini Callimachi on Covering ISIS Sex Slaves
An as-told-to account of what has to be one of the most emotionally challenging jobs in journalism: interviewing women enslaved by ISIS fighters, reporting on their experiences being repeatedly raped and having their lives threatened. Fearless New York Times writer Rukmini Callimachi talks to Elon Green.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
How Ayana Mathis Came to Own Her Ambition
After a phone call from Oprah, the author looks at the long line of women in her life who taught her about achieving her dreams.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
‘I Knew From the Get-Go it Should be Shirley MacLaine’: George Hodgman on Casting ‘Bettyville’ for TV
Paramount TV will bring “Bettyville,” George Hodgman’s memoir about caring for his dying mother, to the small screen.
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On Impractical Urges
An essay excerpted from Robin Romm’s forthcoming anthology Double Bind: Women on Ambition in which The Twelve Tribes of Hattie novelist Ayana Mathis considers the writing ambitions she often hasn’t felt entitled to–even after Oprah Winfrey chose her book as an Oprah 2.0 pick.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
‘BRB, Killing ISIS Guys’: An American Bro in Syria
When Brace Belden left his job in San Francisco to fight ISIS, he had no idea he’d become a prominent figure in the Syrian Civil War.