About Sari Botton
About Memoir Land
Memoir Land is the new name for a newsletter edited by Sari Botton.
There are four verticals:
Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of personal essays co-curated by Granta, Guernica, Narratively, The Rumpus, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Oldster Magazine; *
First Person Singular featuring original personal essays; *
The Lit Lab featuring interviews and craft essays; *
Goodbye to All That, inspired by Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving & Leaving NY and Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for NY, featuring stories about the push-pull that NYC exerts on its inhabitants.
Who am I?
Sari Botton's memoir in essays, And You May Find Yourself... Confessions of a Late-Blooming Gen-X Weirdo, was chosen by Poets & Writers magazine for the 2022 edition of its annual "5 Over 50" feature. An essay from it received notable mention in The Best American Essays 2023, edited by Vivian Gornick.