Cabana Chats: Sari Botton

In our thirteenth full episode of Cabana Chats, writer and editor Sari Botton talks with Resort founder Catherine LaSota about co-working spaces for writers, the importance of building a community around you, and how aging can mean different things to different people. If you want the full experience of this conversation, we recommend listening while enjoying a pizza around a fire with some friends!

Sari Botton is a writer and editor living in Kingston, NY. She is a contributing editor at Catapult, and the former Essays Editor for Longreads. She edited the anthologies Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving & Leaving NY and Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for NY. She teaches creative nonfiction at Wilkes University, Catapult and Bay Path University. She publishes three newsletters: Oldster Magazine, Adventures in "Journalism," and Memoir Monday. Her memoir-in-essays, And You May Find Yourself... will be published by Heliotrope in June 2022.

More links:
"Personal Space," Sari's talk show about memoir on LitHub: https://lithub.com/tag/personal-space/
Sari's latest from "How's the Writing Going?" (her interview column in Catapult's "Don't Write Alone" series): https://catapult.co/dont-write-alone/stories/hows-the-writing-going-r-o-kwon-a-conversation-with-sari-botton

Mentioned in this episode:

Matthew Salesses's Fine Lines essay: https://longreads.com/2019/04/22/to-grieve-is-to-carry-another-time/
Alexander Chee's essay, the first that Sari commissioned and edited at Longreads: https://longreads.com/2016/04/18/our-well-regulated-militia/
Kingston Writers' Studio: https://www.kingstonwritersstudio.com

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Cabana Chats is hosted by Resort founder Catherine LaSota.
Our podcast editor is Craig Eley, and our music is by Pat Irwin.

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