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I Have to be Gentle with Myself: A Conversation with Sari Botton

I imagine the full picture of me in scrubs and Danskos, being an MRI technician and then coming home and writing. Somewhere in an alternate universe, MRI technician Sari exists. I already have the Danskos.

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All about Anthologies: A Roundtable Discussion

With Lilly Dancyger, Sari Botton, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, and Christine Taylor.

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To the West and Back

Riding my bicycle over the Manhattan Bridge, I see the city, instead of scuttling beneath it. And it is beautiful. Parks. Markets. Blossoms. People. Dresses. Pavement. This city is alive…

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An hour later. Still empty. This bothers me. I am embarrassed that it bothers me. But not embarrassed enough that it stops me from checking again.

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Good Riddance to the Goodbye-to-New-York Essay

Joan Didion's "Goodbye to All That" has spawned a new literary genre: the personal screed about loving (or leaving) New York City.

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The City Where Grown-Ups Live

Rumpus columnist Sari Botton has just published a new collection of essays, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York. Over at Slate, you can read Elliott Kalan’s…

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