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Lauren Quinn

Lauren Quinn is a writer, editor and teacher. Her work has appeared in The Believer, Guernica, The Guardian, The Rumpus, The Billfold, The Toast and San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Her pieces have been featured on Longform.org, The New York Times’ “What We’re Reading” and The New Yorker’s “Weekend Reading,” and anthologized in The Best Women’s Travel Writing.

The Gender GapMay 23, 2013

This Is How It Happens

By Lauren Quinn

Try this: Click on our masthead. Look at the photos. Skim the bios. What do you notice?

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Features, UncategorizedApril 15, 2013

My Month as a Slut

By Lauren Quinn

My sister clapped her hands and said, “Let’s get dressed up like sluts and go to the Beverly Center!” This is how it started.

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“Solo Female Travel Isn’t the Problem”
UncategorizedFebruary 7, 2013

“Solo Female Travel Isn’t the Problem”

By Lauren Quinn

We’re loving the response of prominent female travel bloggers to the recent upsurge of the old solo-female-travel-is-too-dangerous line. Both Jodi Ettenberg (Legal Nomads) and…

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Features, UncategorizedJanuary 24, 2013

The Bright Burning of Dory Tourette

By Lauren Quinn

Author’s Note What follows is a story about my friendship with Dory Ben-Shalom, AKA Dory Tourette, a person beloved by many. The story is…

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The Writing LifeNovember 21, 2012

Making What?

By Lauren Quinn

It would have opened like this: the year 2000, June, weekday, mid-afternoon. Standing along the brick of 16th and Mission, a clump of dirty-haired kids…

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Features, UncategorizedNovember 19, 2012

Apocalypse Soon

By Lauren Quinn

The fog crept past the streetlight, swallowing the clouds of smoke we blew out, skinny or fat or from our noses in dragony tendrils.

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Features, UncategorizedOctober 1, 2012

Sweat Ride through the Smog Swamp

By Lauren Quinn

I met him when I was trying to get to work. I was walking down the street in the Old Quarter, dodging traffic in my too-baggy work pants…

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Features, UncategorizedAugust 13, 2012

Girls, Girls, Girl

By Lauren Quinn

The girls looked bored. They slouched in plastic chairs, picked at their nails, crossed and uncrossed their toothpick legs.

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Features, UncategorizedJune 25, 2012

On the Rails in Phnom Penh

By Lauren Quinn

We called him Eat Pray Paul. Because there were two Pauls and they were more or less indistinguishable — both red-faced old dudes who’d been kicking around Cambodia…

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Features, UncategorizedMay 15, 2012

Confessions of the Hamam Non-Sisterhood

By Lauren Quinn

She flung the plastic bucket in my supine direction. The warm water leapt out, arched through the steaming black room and landed with a slap across my face.

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Features, UncategorizedMarch 26, 2012

Could Have Stayed On The Highway

By Lauren Quinn

Interstate 5 stretched out before us like a flat black stain on a dingy beige carpet. Desert, industrial orchards, slaughterhouses, gas stations…

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Features, UncategorizedFebruary 13, 2012

Barang Goes To A Wedding

By Lauren Quinn

The music started before dawn. I knew this only because the holes in the corrugated tin roof revealed swaths of night.

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