Insert Clever Headline About Internet Links Here...

A roundup.

The Harbinger of Autumn (1922) by Paul Klee. In the public domain. Via Rawpixel

I tend to read, watch, and listen to an awful lot of Oldster-adjacent content. Now and then I’ll pass some of it along to you in a link roundup like this one.

PS Thank you for all the sweet happy birthday wishes in response to my essay that was published on Monday! 🎂

PPS *This digitally-dense roundup might be too long to show up in full in your email. Click on the title to read the whole thing on the web.*

---

• I’m inspired by the unretouched photos of 71-year-old Isabella Rossellini in the current issue of Vogue Italia by Zhong Lin.

  vogueitalia

  

  A post shared by @vogueitalia

• “Now 90…the actor and culinary trailblazer is making peace with the twin tracks of her life…” - in The Guardian, Jay Rayner profiles nonagenarian actor and cookbook author Madhur Jaffrey, who in November will release a 50th anniversary edition of her popular cookbook, An Invitation to Indian Cooking, with an introduction by Yotam Ottolenghi.

Order the cookbook.

• “Hey, this country was founded on a long tradition of subjugating women and we’re just trying to keep that going!” In

  Roxane Gay
  ’s The Audacity., a devastating illustrated essay by
  Aubrey Hirsch
  on the state of abortion rights in the U.S.

• I did not know about Menopause: A Comic Treatment, an anthology of comics and graphic essays on “the change” published in 2020—a book I just ordered!—until I saw this Instragram post by genius graphic memoirist and cartoonist Lynda Barry about her contribution.

thenearsightedmonkey

A post shared by @thenearsightedmonkey

• I’m enjoying

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  ’s excellent new newsletter:
  Letters From Love with Elizabeth Gilbert
  .

• “What will happen when I get old? What kind of work could I do? he would ask himself. Would there be any more depth?” - in GQ, Zach Baron profiles 80-year-old filmmaker Martin Scorsese, whose latest movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, will be released on October 20th.

• Speaking of Scorsese, I found this TikTok video of him being quizzed by his 23-year-old daughter Francesca on Gen Z lingo kind of hilarious and charming. (I have no idea what is going on with their voices—in her other TikToks she sounds more like a 23-year-old woman.)

@francescascorseseHe lowkey slayed. #fyp #martinscorsese #dadsoftiktok #dadguesses

Tiktok failed to load.

Enable 3rd party cookies or use another browser

• And speaking of Gen Z, perspectives of aging really are all relative. To wit, this Insider post by Aimee Pearcy: “Gen Zers are worried they're getting old and out of touch after realizing they don't understand Gen Alpha's memes.” (h/t

  Jessica Kerwin Jenkins
  )

• “Over half of LGBTQ+ adults are concerned about mistreatment in long-term care because of their sexuality.” - at NextAvenue, Elliot Montgomery Sklar, PhD, MS writes, about how concerns about caregiving are different for the LGBTQ+ Community.

• “In the months, then weeks, before his death, Reed fretted about his legacy, worrying that time would erase him.” - Vulture/NYMag has an excerpt of my pal Will Herme’s new, long-anticipated biography, LOU REED: The King of New York.

  

  Order the book.

• “My mother was 50 when she was diagnosed and 64 when she died.” - at AARP’s The Ethel, Rochelle Newman-Carrasco writes “They Gave My Mother Two Years. She Had Other Plans,” about learning from her mother to stand up to doctors.

• “Although I am 70, I am a young writer.” - in her fantastic new newsletter,

  How To Be Old
  , author, Accidental Icon blogger, and aging influencer
  Lyn Slater
  writes “Unfinished,” about herself and her house. From Slater’s popular Instagram account:
  iconaccidental

  

  A post shared by @iconaccidental

• “I had covered these roots with henna every two and a half weeks for more than twenty years.” - in Air/Light Magazine, Oldster contributor

  Catherine Texier
  writes “In Praise of White Hair.”

• I enjoyed talking all things Oldster Magazine with Lauren Gilger on KJZZ, a Phoenix NPR affiliate.

• Did you see last week’s open thread pondering the parameters defining “middle-aged”? Well, I am hardly the only one musing about this nebulous distinction! At

  Spark
  ,
  Elizabeth Marro
  and
  The Long Middle
  ’s
  Lisa Renee
  contemplated this back in May…

  That’s a lot of links! Enjoy and have a great weekend.

  -Sari