Memoir Land Author Questionnaire

An Interview with Alicia M. Rodriguez on the writing life and insights into the memoir, The Shaman’s Wife.

Memoir Land is the new name for a Substack newsletter edited by Sari Botton.

Sari Botton's memoir in essays, And You May Find Yourself...Confessions of a Late-Blooming Gen-X Weirdo, was chosen by Poets & Writers magazine for the 2022 edition of its annual "5 Over 50" feature. An essay from it received notable mention in The Best American Essays 2023, edited by Vivian Gornick. For five years, she was the Essays Editor at Longreads. She was a contributing writer and editor to now-defunct Catapult magazine, and an instructor in its school. She edited the bestselling anthologies Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving NewYork and Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York. She publishes Oldster Magazine, Memoir Land, and Adventures in Journalism. She was the Writer in Residence in the creative writing department at SUNY New Paltz for Spring, 2023.

The Interview

Here’s the 65th installment, featuring Alicia M. Rodriguez, author most recently of The Shaman's Wife: A Mystical Journey of Surrender and Self-Discovery. -Sari Botton