A literary newsletter about the writing that happens off the page and how we make sense of our lives through creativity.
nonfiction writer, obsessive reader, sometimes journaler, cross-stitcher, and mom (👦🐶🐶). likely drinking multiple novelty beverages. 📍 Chicago
letters and essays about fiction, power, beauty and how we live and think, from a novelist, nice things enjoyer, sometimes-organizer. "This newsletter feels like the best of the old internet." - Lit Hub
For people who do language. Writing saved my life—so I teach writing as if it can save yours.
Four verticals edited by Sari Botton: MEMOIR MONDAY, collab w/ Granta, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion, The Walrus, Electric Lit, LitHub, Oldster; FIRST PERSON SINGULAR original essays; THE LIT LAB interviews + craft; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, NYC stories.