Tag: sari botton

Coronavirus inspires Sari Botton to reach out to family and friends she’s fallen out with.

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in essays. Jennifer Baker Publishing professional, contributing editor to Electric Literature, creator/host of the Minorities in Publishing podcast, editor of Everyday People: The Color of Life—A Short Story Anthology. Lesson Plan: This Is […]

Sari Botton turns to petty – incredibly petty – theft after her family life hits the fan.

Not planning for death is killing me.

I was introducing all my friends, but had no idea how to be in a good relationship.

Sari Botton explores the dark side of a tradition that has for millennia subverted women’s rights.

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 […]

Sari Botton talks to Paula Fox about Fox’s 1970 novel “Desperate Characters.”

“Memoir is a total minefield, as you know. It’s best if you write the book and leave the country.”

“I moved to Lower Manhattan when I was seventeen. The only things I cared about were books and music.”

She published a short story in The New Yorker in 1992, then seemed to all but disappear. How author Katherine Heiny took her sweet time on the path toward publishing her new story collection.

“I learned to drive. But I never liked it.”