Laurie Sandell

“So, what’s your next book idea?”

Did you know that you can spend four years doing research for a book, two years writing it, one year drawing it, and mere months after it comes out, people will start asking, “So–what’s your next book idea?” Huh? Next book idea? As if I didn’t mine every single solitary idea I’ve ever had for [...]

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Fits and stops and starts

That headline pretty much describes my writing style. I’ll have a few weeks where I can’t write fast enough, am glued to my chair in whatever coffee shop I happen to be working in, and feel breakthroughs happening all over the place. Then I’ll hit a wall and stop completely. It’s not w—-s b—-k, per [...]

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The Daily Grind

I work in coffee shops. This is one of my favorites, called Smooch. So often do I come here, in fact, that I accidentally ended up in this photo, taken by a New York Times blogger. (That’s me, in the foreground.) I even have a little ragtag community of “co-workers”: My friend Amanda, a food [...]

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Cleaning out my bookshelves

I’ve been a neat freak since childhood, though you wouldn’t know it if you looked around my apartment right this very second. I’m on deadline for one magazine piece, doing a total rewrite of another (thanks to some celebrity breaking news which I can’t reveal until the next issue of Glamour hits newsstands), and I’m [...]

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