Surreal is also a good word to being able to text Cate and ask her if she’s ever considered doing an audiobook. I mean, all of this is so new and different, so completely opposite the life I knew, that every part of it, even losing my voice because I’m not used to talking this much is just f-ing fun. “It’s the only word I have to describe any of this-from my cable guy essay blowing up, to sitting in a studio, reading the words I wrote for the audiobook, my audiobook. “Surreal is a word I’ve been using a lot lately,” Hough says of teaming up with Blanchett for the audiobook. Along the way, she’s loaded up her car and started over, trading one life for the next, until eventually finding herself as what she always wanted to be: a writer.īlanchett is plenty busy, but enlisted because she became a fan of Hough’s writing. As a child, she grew up as a member of the infamous cult The Children of God, which took her all over the globe - to Germany, Japan, Texas, Chile - and it wasn’t until she finally left for good that Lauren understood she could have a life beyond The Family. Air Force, a cable guy, a bouncer at a gay club. Hough has had many identities: an airman in the U.S. Book is a personal collection of essays from the heart of working-class America, shot through with the darkest elements the country can manifest–cults, homelessness, and hunger–while discovering light and humor in unexpected corners. Cate Blanchett Joins Lauren Hough In Narration Of ‘Leaving Isn’t The Hardest Thing’Ĭate Blanchett has joined author Lauren Hough in narrating the audiobook edition of Hough’s Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing, to be published April 13. We linked where you can pre-order if you want. She joined author Lauren Hough in narrating audiobook version of her book Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing. He is an editor at Longform.New mini-project from Cate. Called “astonishing,”“powerful,” and “meticulously reported” by David Grann (New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon) and “a true crime classic” by Robert Kolker (New York Times bestselling author of Lost Girls), Green has crafted a methodical, yet vivid investigation into an era with powerful resonances to our world today.Įlon Green has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The Columbia Journalism Review, and appears in the anthology Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit & Obsession. More than impersonal crime reporting, Last Call brings to life the rich and tragic lives of The Last Call Killer’s victims and exposes the system that allowed them to be silenced. This socially important piece of history is a nuanced testament to the vibrant gay community and the challenges they faced in the post AIDs milieu of early 90s New York City. Yet because of the sexuality of his victims, the murders at the hands of this notorious serial killer have been almost entirely forgotten. Told in depth for the first time, Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York is the gripping true crime story of The Last Call Killer, who preyed upon gay men in New York in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, The Guardian, and HuffPost. Air Force, a green-aproned barista, a bartender, a livery driver, and, for a time, a cable guy. Lauren Hough was born in Germany and raised in seven countries and West Texas. Here, as she sweeps through the underbelly of America-relying on friends, family, and strangers alike-she begins to excavate a new identity even as her past continues to trail her and color her world, relationships, and perceptions of self. She's taken pilgrimages to the sights of her youth, been kept in solitary confinement, dated a lot of women, dabbled in drugs, and eventually found herself as what she always wanted to be: a writer. The cult took her all over the globe-to Germany, Japan, Texas, Chile-but it wasn't until she finally left for good that Lauren understood she could have a life beyond "The Family." Along the way, she's loaded up her car and started over, trading one life for the next. Growing up as a member of the infamous cult The Children of God, Hough had her own self robbed from her. As an adult, Lauren Hough has had many identities: an airman in the U.S. Each piece is a reckoning: of survival, identity, and how to reclaim one's past when carving out a future. Press release: A Room of One's Own welcomes Lauren Hough, author of Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing, and Elon Green, author of Last Call, for a virtual conversation!Īt once razor-sharp, profoundly brave, and often very, very funny, the essays in Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing interrogate our notions of ecstasy, queerness, and what it means to live freely.
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