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Sari Botton

Sari Botton is a writer living in upstate New York. She is the editor of Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving NY. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Village Voice and more retrograde womenâ€™s magazines than sheâ€™d care to recall or admit to. She tweets at @saribotton.

Features & Reviews, Rumpus Original, Sari Botton

Sari Botton

Jul 9, 2012

Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me: Cheryl Strayed

Sari Botton talks with Cheryl Strayed about how she keeps finding the courage to be honest in her work—about herself and others around her.
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Sari Botton

Jun 25, 2012

Happy Audio Book Month

Did you know that it’s Audio Book Month? I’m going to guess you didn’t. It’s hard for me to imagine too many Rumpus readers habitually listening to books read aloud by other people, usually not the people who wrote the…
Letters Blog, Rumpus Original

Sari Botton

Apr 6, 2012

Thoughts on Letters In The Mail

When I saw the words “This week’s Letter In The Mail is from Sari Botton” at the bottom of Wednesday’s Daily Rumpus email from Stephen Elliott, my stomach dropped.
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Sari Botton

Mar 26, 2012

Ghosts Are Real, At Least In Publishing

“Ghostwriter” is a problematic word. It gives people the idea that we have some kind of other worldly power; that we’re able to hover over clients somewhere in the ether and read their minds, then write their books using only…
Rumpus Original, Sari Botton

Sari Botton

Dec 21, 2011

Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Emily Carter

I realize I’m especially drawn to memoirs, novels and story collections in which the author or protagonist is at odds with one parent or both, and wrestles with feeling like a tremendous disappointment to them.
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Sari Botton

Oct 5, 2011

WHERE I WRITE #17: From a Place of “Yes”

(Well, at least for the next two weeks, anyway.)
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Sari Botton

Aug 25, 2011

Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Mike Albo

I’ve been living in NYC for years so I am cautiously optimistic about everything.
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Sari Botton

Jul 13, 2011

Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Jon-Jon Goulian

What is the chance of one of those books living up to its pre-release hype? Of earning back its advance?
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Sari Botton

May 18, 2011

Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Elisa Albert

Albert, who is at work on her second novel, describes both books as “personal” as opposed to autobiographical, although they are rooted in her own experiences.
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Sari Botton

Feb 28, 2011

Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Heather Havrilesky

I wasn’t surprised to find that I enjoyed Havrilesky’s book and really related to it. There is so much overlap in our stories, I should probably hate her for beating me to the finish line by miles – thousands of…
Features & Reviews, Politics, Rumpus Original, Sari Botton

Sari Botton

Jan 24, 2011

Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Nick Flynn

Flynn and I discussed his approach to writing the memoirs—as well as the advantages of having Protestant parents—over coffee in the West Village.
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Sari Botton

Dec 10, 2010

Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Jillian Lauren

I wrote the book with a tremendous suspension of disbelief; I wrote it as if no one was ever going to read it. I know that sounds like a cliché.