Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.
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An incomplete list of people I hate.
It’s 100 degrees and the air conditioner is working as hard as my estrogen patch, but neither is built for this shit. I can’t write. I can’t focus on this novel. (I am open to suggestions. Think: Big Swiss. The Devil All the Time. Slaughter...
News, if you can find it
In book news: Tour is over, the main part anyway.
In book news: Tour is over, the main part anyway. Thank you to everyone who came out to see us. Woody was a perfect gentlemen at all events. We don’t need to talk about his gas attacks. The...
Happy Fucking Fourth of July
It’s almost two on the fourth of July, and I’m hiding upstairs with my dog, trying to pregame some decompression.
It’s almost two on the fourth of July, and I’m hiding upstairs with my dog, trying to pregame some decompression. Company wil...
Dunkin and Diesel
Before I forget, again.
Before I forget, again. I am coming to the West Coast—LA, or Santa Monica, which, as a Texan, is also Los Angeles. I know there are other cities on the West Coast. I have lived in a couple of them. But I am not Ann...
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It’s been a week.
It’s been a week. Goddamn has it been a week. I’m currently parked in a wildlife refuge off I-40 in Arkansan where all I can hear are the birds and locusts. The pond looks a little gator-y so we’re staying clear but a wal...
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NYT bestselling author of Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing and Monster of a Land, coming June 2026. (Say “huff.” Good job.)
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