Amy Rigby!!!

This is next Weds! I spoke with @joedonahue.bsky.social on @wamcradio.bsky.social's Roundtable about it yesterday. It's going to be fun.... www.wamc.org/podcast/the-...

Thanks to @saribotton.bsky.social for publishing an excerpt from FONSECA. Fitzgerald, who didn’t publish her first novel until she was 60, would have been delighted with @oldstermag.bsky.social, I think. #penelopefitzgerald #booksky

This quote is such a gut punch.

Get ready for the 1st @oldstermag.bsky.social event at Unicorn Bar in Kingston, NY Weds., 10/1, the night before my 60th birthday. Featuring: Amy Rigby, Chris Wells, Joan Juliet Buck, Carolita Johnson, Brian Macaluso, Francesca Hoffman, and, of course, me! Get tix: www.viewcy.com/event/oldste...

In my next life I’m coming back as a member of the Dimes Square scene so that those publications obsessed with it will take even a passing interest in my work.

Team Liz Gilbert. Team memoir. Team wearing your insides on the outside, even when (especially when) they're not very attractive, so that the others of us with similar insides can better understand them. Team progress not perfection. Team...I'm away on vacation so I'm not going to respond.

Many thanks to @saribotton.bsky.social for including me in the wonderful Memoir Land author questionnaire. If you’re not subscribed, you should be!

Happy 22nd anniversary of the August, 2003 east coast blackout to all who celebrate. Here's a remembrance of it by @brianmacaluso.bsky.social. memoirland.substack.com/p/lights-out

"The restaurant was dimly lit, particularly toward the back, where the bar is. Maybe he couldn’t see that I have a full head of gray hair. That I’m almost 60. That I was wearing a wedding band." - moi oldster.substack.com/p/all-the-yo...

Sari can get it! I have had to keep starting and stopping her memoir asking myself “why are men?” So I’m thrilled to read this - for both her loving marriage and a sweet encounter with a nice young man. 💪

“It’s a bit of an obscenity that I’m asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust…Why aren’t we listening to the Palestinians?”

. @saribotton.bsky.social has got it going on. Seriously. Her latest piece is a frank look at women dating younger men. Like everything she writes, it's smart and funny. oldster.substack.com/p/all-the-yo...

Diary of an almost-60-year-old who was told she'd soon be invisible. oldster.substack.com/p/all-the-yo...

TSA Pre, or Global Entry? (Traveling to Portugal at the end of this month.)

How I Learned magazine is LIVE and Jennifer Stewart has a few things to say to you. Come in, come in, and subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/howilear...

Ever the #Lateadopter trying to catch up on BlueSky! Here is my piece on @oldstermag.bsky.social . Thank you @saribotton.bsky.social

How do you feel about "dressing your age"? Weigh in here: oldster.substack.com/p/what-does-...

Honored and thrilled to join @brendanomeara.bsky.social on the Creative Nonfiction Podcast today. We talked about the state of journalism and storytelling, some early #longreads lore, and why I love taking voice lessons. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Was just thinking I want a do-over for this summer—an oppressive extended heatwave, at least where I am. It’s kept me from being outside in the sunshine, a necessary balm at any time, but even more so in these times. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

🧵GAZA I just donated to Gaza Soup Kitchen ⬇️ Pls join me if you can. If you're Jewish, please also join me & 20,000+ Jews ⬇️ in calling for an immediate end to Israel's food blockade on Gaza. Signers include hundreds & hundreds of rabbis & two of my heroes, Mandy Patinkin & Letty Cottin Pogrebrin.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

Thank you @saribotton.bsky.social. ♥️ memoirland.substack.com/p/why-mr-bau...

I wrote about remembering how to feel for Nothing Compares to You, an anthology of essays on the legacy of Sinéad O’Connor. The book comes out tomorrow. Here, get your joy: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Nothin... Thank you to @saribotton.bsky.social for giving this piece a home on @oldster_mag.

What my husband lovingly calls my "media empire." substack.com/@saribotton

Adding my voice to the chorus that’s been recalling the excesses at Condé Nast, back when they had nothing but money to burn. adventuresinjournalism.substack.com/p/one-haircu...

substack.com/@memoirland/... Excited to have this excerpt from Frontier up at Memoir Land! Big thank you to @saribotton.bsky.social and @cassmannes.bsky.social

Just a few weeks ago, the awesome @saribotton.bsky.social let me do the @oldstermag.bsky.social Q-and-A. oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-65...

“I just say what I want most of the time. I think I’m still restricted by my history of being an Asian model minority + a woman to boot. But I try to assert my voice now. I refuse to stay silent and obedient.” -Helena Rho takes The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire. oldster.substack.com/p/this-is-59...

"I got sick of the media narrative that we all grow increasingly conservative as we age, and I wanted to speak for the rest of us who’ve moved further to the left than ever, and are dreaming bigger now than we did when we were kids." - @maris.bsky.social memoirland.substack.com/p/the-memoir...

The SCOTUS decisions, the UVA president stepping down under pressure, and all the other bad news today just kicked my ass. I had to stop working and lie down. I'll pull myself back up, but it's getting harder and harder to do.

"I wonder: what is it like for young music fans today, with unlimited access to their favorite artists? Part of the allure for me was the elusive hunt for the rare and unheard." - David Begler (one of my oldest friends) in @oldstermag.bsky.social oldster.substack.com/p/some-day-w...

I'm glad my mom took so many pictures of me in the old neighborhood. This was the American Indian Museum on Broadway between 155th & 156th Streets. I recently wrote an article about using old pictures to tell new stories. memoirland.substack.com/p/i-remember... #NYC #1970s @saribotton.bsky.social

This week's "Memoir Monday." (Support ALL This and everything else I'm doing at Memoir Land? Especially if I've featured you or your clients? memoirland.substack.com/subscribe) memoirland.substack.com/p/essays-and...

What I wouldn't give for some days when it's neither cold and damp, nor stiflingly hot and humid.

Incidentally, the person who recommended "From Strength to Strength" to me said it was by "that old guy who writes for The Atlantic." TIL Arthur C. Brooks is 61, just a little more than a year older than me. 👵👴 oldster.substack.com/p/resisting-...

Thanks to @memoirland.bsky.social for highlighting Walter Siti's "My Poor Parents", pub'ed in @grantamag.bsky.social, in this week's Memoir Monday roundup! 🫶 memoirland.substack.com/p/this-weeks...

At @oldstermag.bsky.social I had a great conversation with my 82-year-old uncle about his reluctance to fully retire from ophthalmic surgery. (He also reveals he hates "Doctor My Eyes," which Jackson Browne performed at his foundation's gala last year. 😂) oldster.substack.com/p/resisting-...

Dream come true to be interviewed about Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode for @saribotton.bsky.social’s series @memoirland.bsky.social ! open.substack.com/pub/memoirla... @roughtradebooks.bsky.social

Thanks for the BROOKLYN MOTTO highlight, @saribotton.bsky.social .

I just came home from lunch and had the impulse to *check my answering machine.* Am I having a stroke?

Got an @oldstermag.bsky.social Friday Link Roundup for you... oldster.substack.com/p/the-founta...

My Substack is for writers, thinkers, and anyone trying to find their creative way.

At @memoirland.bsky.social I spoke with the one and only @melissafebos.bsky.social AND she took The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire. memoirland.substack.com/p/the-memoir...

New piece by @kristinohlson.bsky.social about an ecstasy trip she took with her partner, in their 70s. PLUS a Friday Open Thread for sharing our own experiences with psychedelics. oldster.substack.com/p/ecstasy-fo...

Are there so many bad-but-watchable shows with great casts right now because everyone just needs to quickly make up for their losses during the strikes a couple of years ago? Because there are *so many* bad-but-watchable shows.

My smart cousin @smotus.bsky.social in @oldstermag.bsky.social today...