The Original Oldster: A Conversation with Sari Botton
Please join us for a lively chat with Sari Botton, founder of Oldster Magazine, about her recent rise to fame and her lifelong obsession with aging. After being rejected by endless employers in her 50s, and then working her butt off, she has finally earned a much-deserved seat at the publishing table, and her star continues to rise. We cover topics ranging from turning 60, becoming our more authentic selves, Sari’s dream that became the catalyst for Oldster, the fascinating phenomenon of subjective age, some of Sari’s favorite interviews and essays from Oldster, to a refreshing counter-narrative to assumptions about attractiveness in middle age.
And don’t forget to hang around for our “After Thoughts” where Lori and Constance unpack the episode and chat about our thoughts on what we heard.
SHOW NOTES
Sari Botton [http://saribotton.com/]'s memoir in essays, And You May Find Yourself...Confessions of a Late-Blooming Gen-X Weirdo [https://bookshop.org/books/and-you-may-find-yourself/9781942762997], was chosen by Poets & Writers magazine for the 2022 edition of its annual "5 Over 50" feature [https://www.pw.org/content/5_over_50_2022?article_page=2]. She edited the bestselling anthologies Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving NewYork [https://bookshop.org/books/goodbye-to-all-that-revised-edition-writers-on-loving-and-leaving-new-york/9781541675681]and Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York [https://bookshop.org/books/never-can-say-goodbye-writers-on-their-unshakable-love-for-new-york/9781476784403]. She publishes Oldster Magazine [http://oldster.substack.com/], Memoir Land [http://memoirland.substack.com/], and Adventures in Journalism [http://adventuresinjournalism.substack.com/].
The Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are and How Old You Think You Are [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/04/subjective-age-how-old-you-feel-difference/673086/]
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