Lauren Mechling
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Senior Editor @guardianus ; co-author of The Memo, a “time slip” novel coming out next month from Harper Perennial and other publishers on planet 🌎
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I spent my pandemic writing a bananas time travel novel with my friend
@racheld
. And then
@grainnefox
came along and found the perfect home for it, with
@steinsarahj
and her bang-up team at Harper. Holy wormhole‼️🍌💥🐛📚
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Olivia Rodrigo, who reads the work of the journalists who interview her, is number one in my books forever.
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To my fellow nyc humans who have never knowingly gotten Covid, what is the theory? That we actually did and never realized it, right?
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9 yo son wants to start a podcast in which he invites authors to review their own books. Who’s in?
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6yo has informed me that she suspects Ed Sheeren’s “I’m in love with the shape of you” is about a turtle and now I can totally stand that song.
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I wrote about how to let a friendship die: with dignity.
We are wired to pursue friendship: In the company of our favorite companions, studies have found that our brains release dopamine and oxytocin. The early stages of friendship are their own romance, writes
@laurenmechling
.
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Next time I go to an intimidating boutique I’m going to tell the shopgirl that the occasion is “my ex boyfriend is dating Lady Gaga.”
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Ummm... "I had no idea he was unhappy. My husband had been a man who went to bed at 9 p.m. and tracked his sleep cycles on a phone app. He was the first to leave a dinner party."
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Thrilled to share that I will start my role as a senior editor at
@GuardianUS
on Monday. I’ve only been obsessed with the Guardian for my entire adult life, and now I can call the brilliant team behind it my colleagues.
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“Jeremy Strong selected Kendall’s [numerous] headphones himself, viewing them as an extension of his character.” Cc:
@ClubSuccession
❤️ the
@FT
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This is so nonfiction reader 101 but… If I loved
@praddenkeefe
’a book about the Sacklers and I’m craving more OMG investigative nonfiction... what next? (Note: I’m a snob. And I can’t handle clumsy writing.)
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The kid who wanted to meet me and ghosted me after I clarified that I am not on staff, only a contributing editor, is going to GO FAR.
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I love how “liking” a message is the new hanging up the phone.
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It happened. I met somebody and asked her what she does and she told me, plainly "Im an influencer."
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@keziahweir
Has anyone ever been familiar with your (amazing) work? I’m trying to think of a counterpoint from my end…
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Dads are for asking if you might "ever consider" working at The New York Times.
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“I really WANTED to love this book”
is the meanest thing anyone can say.
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Months shy of her 80th birthday, my painter mother in law GOT A GALLERY SHOW IN CHELSEA!! More braggadocio to come.
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This tweet is my personal essay about having been a Lucky Strike waitress in the mid nineties. I served penne alla vodka to a slinky Milla Jovovich. Geraldo came alone and ordered a margarita. I still make the staff-meal lentils. The end.
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Had an hourlong drink with somebody who asked zero questions. Not today, but not long ago. Here I am to remind the good ones: Nosy people rule.
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If you’ve been laid off: 1) buy yourself a present 2) call everyone you know + them what happened. some people will be very generous, almost weirdly so. 3) try to enjoy the nontoxic air. 4) believe me when I say: you will be okay. you will.
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If I were to start pulling a big fat hardcover out of my bag every time my dining companion got sucked into “their” (see, not targeting husbands) phone, which book should it be?
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In honor of Phil Collins's trending status, here is the gloriously awkward master class that
@StarleeKine
once took with him.
#PhilCollins
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Kid wants more independence so he can… “hang out at CVS.”
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All calls do not need to be video calls. You’re welcome.
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7yo: "Are you actually a writer... or are you a weird person who had a book come out?"
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When somebody asks you to interview the person who laid you off.
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Relationships are hard. Relationships with writers are even harder. Thank you to all my fellow needy neurotics who took my calls & spilled their delectable beans.
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Daughter made a new playground buddy named Vaccine. (Turns out it was Maxine)
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Should I be concerned that the fact checker on a piece I wrote keeps calling me Laura?
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A couple of years ago it seemed like nobody was going to buy this book. The people involved gave up, and Rachel and I almost did too.
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Holy clogs of Gayle King! How Could She is on Oprah’s summer 2019 reading list 🧡🤩📚
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I loathed this book so much I got off one subway stop early.
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I read the electrifying “Mating” in a hammock in Costa Rica, during a painful (and temporary!) breakup.
What's been your favorite reading experience? Not your favorite book, necessarily, but one of your favorite moments/periods of engagement with a book? Situations when the actual circumstances of reading it enhanced your appreciation of the book, or in some way proved memorable?
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People who ask who else will be in a story before committing to talking to me (how could they resist!?) need to get over whatever happened at the cafeteria in junior high.
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The “female empowerment” guru
whose company laid me off for having to help my tiny kids with zoom school during a sudden pandemic is having fun at the met gala, looks like.
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It’s called being a writer.
What if we could train ourselves to crave negative feedback?
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I wrote about losing my job, but not my mind, thanks to the healing powers of clogs.
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The first thing to make me laugh in a month? From a
@TEDTalks
blog post on how to be married in the age of Covid.
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Just accosted a supermodel on the street for a story I’m reporting and she didn’t balk, just said: I know who you are. You’re the cloglife.
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Kirkus star! 💫
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How did I miss the great Cosmo interview with Isaac Bashevis Singer of 1986?
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Fantasies come true! My book costarred with... Larry David.
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Have bought this book for literally five people (self included). (Best friend, husband, cherished family babysitter, okay I didn’t buy but made a friend in England read.)
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My capitalist 7yo son wants to set up a lemonade stand at my book readings.
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A parent at camp drop-off: “We finally watched White Lotus and one of the characterizations really reminded us of you.”
Me: “The journalist?!”
Them: “No. The teenage girls.”
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I continue to always be lost in this Phantom Tollboothy neighborhood.
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Breakdowns in the produce aisle, soggy-spined husbands, sex maniacs. The stories of 91-year-old Hilma Wolitzer are absolutely wonderful.
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Just following up to see if you received my e.mail? Thanks!
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My favorite line from the new Sally Rooney book is about hamburgers. “They tasted normal.”
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Would be curious—and charmed—to hear of anybody who has made a new friend in the past couple of months.
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Bread and salted butter. Is there any more perfect meal?
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My baby has a face! Mark your calendars: June ‘24 is the time warp you’ve been waiting for.
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Hi
@shakeshack
can somebody pls give Freddie a big round of applause and make her CEO? She saved my son’s lost viola! And she served it with a chicken sandwich. ❤️🤸♀️🎼
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Writers deserve a special extra puffy cloud in heaven.
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Today a dad told me his theory: that all the moms settled, the moms are cooler/funnier/sexier, and he resents being stuck in the dad clump, talking about beer and business at the birthday parties.
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My midlife crisis is speeding through Hollywood memoirs from the Brooklyn Public Library.
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Showed my kids a picture of my late grandmother and my sister and me around their age. “They had color photographs back then?” RIP Bubbie
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Just walked inside
@glossier
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Who in the heavens hates me enough to see to it that I watch Big masturbate and then die. I’m sorry for whatever I did.
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OMG
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This was a terrifying story to report. Thanks to all the brave librarians out there who are fighting for our right to keep reading.
#BannedBooksWeek
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Why meditate when you can post an article you killed yourself reporting and see it's a "2 minute read"?
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“He’s smart, chubby, and well adjusted. I don’t know his name though.” -7 yo on the boy he’s been trying to befriend at day camp.
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Nicholas Cage as Dracula is my “something 2023” to live for.
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“I never expected the world to be this lonely when I was a baby.” — 5 yo
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“She’s not my friend. She *inspires* me.” — 4 yo on the cool girl at summer camp
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Went on my third “Twitter friend” coffee date and I have to say they’re never anything but lovely. I just might initiate one myself.
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The 96 year old who came to a reading and took my hand and told me I’ve had a hard life (because she thought it was a memoir) was a highlight.
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