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Debuting at 70
Ruth Bonapace on what it took to publish her first novel as a newly minted septuagenarian.
Jun 23 • 
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Resisting Retirement: When Your Identity is Bound Up with Your Profession
I interview my 82-year-old uncle about his struggle to move on from ophthalmic surgery, and what he gleaned from Arthur C. Brooks' "From Strength to…
Jun 20 • 
Sari Botton
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SAMUEL MASKET
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Late Nite Radio #3: Amy Millan
Allyson McCabe interviews Canadian musician Amy Millan about her new record, "I Went To Find You," exploring love, loss, and how tending to old wounds…
Jun 19 • 
Allyson McCabe
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This is 53: Debut Novelist Jessica Berger Gross Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"I feel like I keep growing into myself. And feeling better, getting better. I really want to feel like that can keep happening until the end."
Jun 18 • 
Sari Botton
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This is 53: Debut Novelist Jessica Berger Gross Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
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Ask a Sober Oldster #24: Margaret Cho
"I was definitely born with the 'need.' That urge to put something between me and living."
Jun 17 • 
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The Small Bow
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Ask a Sober Oldster #24: Margaret Cho
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Gay Marriage
An excerpt of "Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer"
Jun 16 • 
Ariel Gore
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The Fountain of Youth is a Coffee Maker
And lots of other useful, Oldster-adjacent content. PLUS: "The Oldster Top 10," Cliff Chenfeld's monthly playlist of new songs for old ears.
Jun 13 • 
Sari Botton
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I Don't Know Why #7
"I no longer have a red dot on my nose and I don’t know why." The seventh installment of an occasional Oldster Magazine column by bestselling novelist…
Jun 12 • 
Laura Lippman
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This is 81: Jon Carroll Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"In my 30s I traveled to New York a great deal, met extremely interesting people, got hired for extremely interesting work, and ate a lot of good food…
Jun 11 • 
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This is 81: Jon Carroll Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
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What Kinds of Birds We Are
While visiting her older sister in an assisted living facility, Jesse Lee Kercheval encounters a profusion of birds who remind her of her sister and…
Jun 9 • 
Jesse Lee Kercheval
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Ecstasy for Easter
"Changing our minds in one afternoon." PLUS: A Friday Open Thread on our experiences with MDMA and other psychedelics...
Jun 6 • 
Kristin Ohlson
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Sari Botton
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Growing Old in the White House
On Biden and ageism.
Jun 5 • 
Seth Masket
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