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Letter from the Editor #27
Readers,
This is 79: Distinguished Author Francine Prose 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.”
Ask a Sober Oldster #33: Neda Ulaby
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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.
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.
Expanding the definition of recovery, but no longer on Substack. Just go to www.thesmallbow.com to see what we're up to.
Writer.
I've been a songwriter, musician & performer for many years. Published my first book Girl To City in 2019. Girl To Country out now in the US/12 March in the UK.
A native of Harlem, Michael A. Gonzales is essayist, critic and short story scribe, He writes for CrimeReads, The Oxford American, Soulhead.com, Catapult (The Blacklist) and Oldster. His Twitter handle is @gonzomike. On Instagram: bigmike151
Writer // Innkeeper at A Catskills Bed & Bar
Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life. Edited by Sari Botton.
Author of THE BLUE DRESS, a novel based on her childhood as an Iranian immigrant w/body image & mother-daughter relationship struggles, published March 24, 2026, from Macmillan's FSG.
Author of the novels Consolation, The Summer Demands, and The Sun in Your Eyes, and the not-novel Watching the Detective (out 11/18/25).
Writer, cat lover, alt rock fanatic. Latest novel: Last Night at the Disco. Humor in McSweeney’s & more. 2025 Massachusetts Cultural Council fellow. I run the Novel Reactor workshops.
Writer, playwright, director, peace activist
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