Coronavirus inspires Sari Botton to reach out to family and friends she’s fallen out with.
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Longreads Best of 2019: Essays
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in essays.
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Taking Cents, Making Sense of a Broken Family
Sari Botton turns to petty – incredibly petty – theft after her family life hits the fan.
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Losing the Plot
A personal essay from our Fine Lines series in which Sari Botton finds that not planning for death is, well, killing her.
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Losing the Plot
Not planning for death is killing me.
Posted inBlog Post, Commentary, Nonfiction
Inadvertent Matchmaker Seeks a Love of Her Own
I was introducing all my friends, but had no idea how to be in a good relationship.
Posted inNonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Unchain My Heart: On the Emotional Effectiveness—and Lingering Sexism—of Jewish Divorce
Sari Botton explores the dark side of a tradition that has for millennia subverted women’s rights.
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Unchain My Heart: On the Emotional Effectiveness—and Lingering Sexism—of Jewish Divorce
Sari Botton explores the dark side of a tradition that has for millennia subverted women’s rights.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Quotes
Second Chances After Fifty: Jeanette Winterson, in ‘Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?’
Today (October 2, 2015) I turn fifty. This is officially the first age that has freaked me out. Fifty? How can I be fifty? Fifty is how old grandparents are, or how old my grandparents were when I was born, anyway. And I haven’t even been a parent. Fifty is how old Maggie Estep was […]
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‘The Truth of Life’: Paula Fox on the Re- (Re-) Release of Her 1970 Novel
Sari Botton talks to Paula Fox about Fox’s 1970 novel “Desperate Characters.”