Join Sari Botton and Rough Draft for a virtual celebration of the re-issue of Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York.
About this Event
Rough Draft is delighted to celebrate the re-issue of Goodbye To All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, with the book's editor and friend-of-the-shop, Sari Botton. Sari will be joined by contributors Ada Limon, Carolita Johnson, and Danielle Jackson, along with special guest host Ryan Chapman.
This stellar cast will read from their new essays and share the good and the bad about leaving (and in some cases, returning to) the city they once called home -- from the emotional to the logistical and everything in between. They'll discuss their lives post–NYC; how the pandemic has changed their perspectives on city (and non-city) living; and the role that gentrification has played in their lives and their communities -- both the ones they left behind and the ones they've settled into.
This event is for anyone who's lived in, loved, or left New York, or who's curious about what life as a writer in the Big Apple is really like. Join us for an evening reminiscing about the timeless magic (and occasional misery) of the country's largest metropolis ... and candid conversaton about what comes beyond.
Copies of Goodbye to All That, signed by Sari, are available for store pickup or nationwide shipping at roughdraftny.com.
ABOUT THE READERS:
Sari Botton is a writer and editor living in Kingston. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times and many other publications. She edited the award-winning anthology Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving & Leaving New York and its New York Times bestselling follow-up, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York. For five years she served as Essays Editor at Longreads. She teaches creative nonfiction courses at Catapult and in the MFA program at Bay Path University.
Ada Limón, a current Guggenheim fellow, is the author of five poetry collections, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
Carolita Johnson is a writer, cartoonist and storyteller and a native New Yorker, regularly contributing cartoons to The New Yorker magazine since 2003, and writing illustrated, personal essays for Longreads.com among others, about her existence as a woman and artist. She recently returned to her native Queens from Kingston, New York, to care for her mother.
A native of Memphis, Danielle A. Jackson is the managing editor at Oxford American magazine. Her work has appeared in New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, The Criterion Collection, Lapham’s Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Ryan Chapman is a Sri Lankan-American writer originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota. His debut novel Riots I Have Known was published by Simon & Schuster in 2019, and his work has appeared at The New Yorker, The Guardian, GQ, Bookforum, BOMB, Guernica, McSweeney’s, and The Believer. He’s held residencies at Vermont Studio Center, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and the James Merrill House. He lives in Kingston.