"I lived through the AIDS crisis in New York City and while so many of my friends and colleagues died during that time, I somehow lived. It seemed a miracle to me, and the best way that I can honor the many who did not make it is to never complain about getting older and to celebrate every year of my life to the best of my ability." - Celeste Lecesne in Oldster Magazine. https://oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-68-celeste-lecesne-responds
Sari Botton
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In @poetswritersinc5 Over 50 for my debut "And You May Find Yourself." Bestsellers: Goodbye to All That/Never Can Say Goodbye; @oldstermag; column @catapultstory
A holiday gift guide, crowd-sourced from some Oldster Magazine contributors...
https://oldster.substack.com/p/the-oldster-magazine-crowd-sourced
Emily Ding"it was a turning point of my attitude toward challenges, big or small, in my new life, as if procuring a proper first meal signified my will to survive in this new world I’d entered"
Yi Xue reminds me of how I sometimes feel when I have to verbalise my needs to a stranger for the very first time upon landing in a new city, esp. where the main language is foreign—and the pleasure of feeling myself loosen up as the days go by: https://memoirmonday.substack.com/p/the-sandwich
A new Oldster Magazine link roundup, featuring a cartoon by @Carolitajohnson https://oldster.substack.com/p/like-most-of-us-some-of-these-links
Black Friday, Small Business Saturday—there's never a bad day to support independent bookstores. If you're buying books online, consider
@Bookshop_Org, which raises money for indies. Oh, and look at that, I've got some books there you might enjoy...
https://bookshop.org/contributor_profiles/116
@Bookshop_Org, which raises money for indies. Oh, and look at that, I've got some books there you might enjoy...
https://bookshop.org/contributor_profiles/116
In which I recommend Jill Sobule's "F*ck 7th Grade" at The Wild Project in the East Village.
https://oldster.substack.com/p/oldster-recommends-jill-sobules-fck
https://oldster.substack.com/p/oldster-recommends-jill-sobules-fck
In which I recommend Jill Sobule's "F*ck 7th Grade" at The Wild Project in the East Village.
https://oldster.substack.com/p/oldster-recommends-jill-sobules-fck
https://oldster.substack.com/p/oldster-recommends-jill-sobules-fck
I suppose I'm going to need to start accounts for my newsletters. Until I do, here's where you can find them: http://oldster.substack.com http://memoirmonday.substack.com http://adventuresinjournalism.substack.com
People in the literary world: When you're working on gift guides and end-of-year lists, I'd be so grateful if you'd consider my memoir-in-essays, And You May Find Yourself. 🙏 Let me know if you'd like me to send you a copy. Thank you. 📚 https://bookshop.org/p/books/and-you-may-find-yourself-sari-botton/18519104?ean=9781942762997
"But although you have lived in New York for two years, you still don’t feel like a part of New York. You’re still pressing your nose against the glass, trying to figure out how to traverse the invisible, immeasurable gulf to the other side." - Sara Eckel's moving "Letter to My Younger Self" in Oldster Magazine. https://oldster.substack.com/p/letter-to-my-younger-self-2-you-are
