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Lauren LeBlanc

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  • Book Columnist, Observer
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Chapel Hill
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Writer & independent book editor (she/her) | @bookcritics board member Formerly: @BKBF, @GuernicaMag, Atlas & Co., @aaknopf, @NOLAnews
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A Refugee’s Search for Home in Paradiso 17

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By Hannah Lillith Assadi, Lauren LeBlanc Verified
| Alta Journal Verified
I am a memory house for those I have lost,” writes Hannah Lillith Assadi in her 2017 debut novel, the coming-of-age tale Sonora. It’s a wistful statement made by the narrator, a young woman whose Arizona desert community has been rocked by suicide, but it’s as much a mission statement for the writer herself. With exquisitely atmospheric and tender prose, Assadi preserves memories of those at the margins, diminished by society, through her work.
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What John Updike Got Wrong About Katrina

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By Lauren LeBlanc Verified
| shorturl.at
Photograph by Robert Polidori from After the Flood (2006). Courtesy Robert Polidori On art, criticism, and my drowned house Gazing at Central Park from the twentieth floor of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper, I wondered what it would look like if New York City flooded. It was the end of August in 2005, and I worked as an editorial assistant at perhaps the most esteemed literary publishing house in the country.
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What John Updike Got Wrong About Katrina

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By Lauren LeBlanc Verified
| Oxford American Verified
Aerial view of New Orleans on September 2, 2005. U.S. Navy photo by Gary Nichols. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Gazing at Central Park from the twentieth floor of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper, I wondered what it would look like if New York City flooded. It was the end of August in 2005, and I worked as an editorial assistant at perhaps the most esteemed literary publishing house in the country.
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