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Letter from the Editor #46

Readers,

Just a quickie today, because I’m neck-deep in preparation for the next few episodes of The Oldster Radio Hour, which will air every other week. Speaking of which, have you checked out episode one? I’d love it if you would…

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This is 57: Cult Survivor Michelle Dowd Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire

From the time I was 10, I’ve been obsessed with what it means to grow older. I’m curious about what it means to others, of all ages, and so I invite them to take “The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire.”
Sometimes you’ll find respo...
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Born in 1885

Four generations of women in Kim van Alkemade’s family.

“It was my job as matron in the Reception House to shave the heads of all the new children who came into the Home.”

My great-grandmother Fannie is telling me stories about when she w...

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Joining the Six Percent

Candy Schulman and her husband Steve at their 1975 wedding.

It’s impossible, my husband and I keep saying.

We squint at each other, trying to recognize the young people we once were, the parents we were and still are, the half-fare senior...

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Letter from the Editor #45

Readers,

Usually I send out my posts in this Letter from the Editor series on Thursdays. But this week I’m sending this out on Friday because a) today is the day we launched The Oldster Radio Hour, our audio and video podcast (!!!), and b)...

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  • Sari Botton

    Sari Botton is the author of the memoir "And You May Find Yourself." She edited two bestselling anthologies: "Goodbye to All That" and "Never Can Say Goodbye." She publishes Oldster Magazine, Memoir Land, and Adventures in Journalism.

  • Valerie Monroe

    I'm a writer and former magazine editor who was for nearly 16 years the beauty director at O, The Oprah Magazine. I split my time between New York and Tokyo. valeriemonroe.substack.com

  • Laura Lippman

    Laura Lippman is a New York Times bestseller who has published 28 works of fiction, a collection of essays, and one children's book. Her latest novel, Murder Takes a Vacation, is out in the U.S. and UK.

  • The Small Bow

    Expanding the definition of recovery, but no longer on Substack. Just go to www.thesmallbow.com to see what we're up to.

  • Peter Moore

    I’m either the 73rd, 22nd, 54th, or 3rd funniest writer on Substack, depending on how the algorithm is feeling about me that day. Which is in itself hilarious.

  • Brian Macaluso

    Senior producer of the Oldster Radio Hour podcast

  • Vivian Manning-Schaffel

    Deep thoughts and petty bullshit about pop culture and the human condition by journalist and essayist Vivian Manning-Schaffel. Words in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times, The Cut, etc., etc. GenXXX. Inherently unbothered.

  • Oldster Magazine

    Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life. Edited by Sari Botton.

  • Corinne O'Shaughnessy

    Corinne O'Shaughnessy is a retired New York City public school teacher. With essays in online publications, she is currently working on living well in order to have a better ending for her grief/guilt memoir in progress.

  • Candy Schulman

    Candy Schulman's essays appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Cut, AARP, and elsewhere. She is a writing professor at The New School and has completed a memoir.

  • Lisa Marsh

    Writer. Reader. CEO Mom. Love a #Dancebreak. #GlutenFree #DairyFree #EggFree culinary wizard. I'm interested, curious and have opinions.

  • Notes From A Loving Curmudgeon

    writer. reader. night owl. former new yorker. child of holocaust survivors.

  • Evan I. Schwartz

    author, screenwriter, producer - stories of human imagination - contributor to Smithsonian Magazine - now writing about music and film for Oldster Magazine. www.evanischwartz.com

  • Kim van Alkemade

    I'm a NYTimes bestselling author of four novels that each tell the story of a lesbian or gay character in the 1900s. I work at an independent bookstore and live with my partner, our rescue dog, and a feisty backyard chicken in upstate New York.

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