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Sari Botton

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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 women’s magazines than she’d care to recall or admit to. She tweets at @saribotton.
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Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me: Cheryl Strayed

  • Sari Botton
  • July 9, 2012
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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Happy Audio Book Month

  • Sari Botton
  • June 25, 2012
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…
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Thoughts on Letters In The Mail

  • Sari Botton
  • April 6, 2012
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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Ghosts Are Real, At Least In Publishing

  • Sari Botton
  • March 26, 2012
"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 our own words.
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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Emily Carter

  • Sari Botton
  • December 21, 2011
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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WHERE I WRITE #17: From a Place of “Yes”

  • Sari Botton
  • October 5, 2011
 (Well, at least for the next two weeks, anyway.)
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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Mike Albo

  • Sari Botton
  • August 25, 2011
I've been living in NYC for years so I am cautiously optimistic about everything.
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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Jon-Jon Goulian

  • Sari Botton
  • July 13, 2011
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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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Elisa Albert

  • Sari Botton
  • May 18, 2011
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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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Heather Havrilesky

  • Sari Botton
  • February 28, 2011
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 them.
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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Nick Flynn

  • Sari Botton
  • January 24, 2011
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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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Jillian Lauren

  • Sari Botton
  • December 10, 2010
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.
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