Laurie Woolever
@lauriewoolever.bsky.social
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Author, editor, speaker, crank
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southpaw
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I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.
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I wrote about blood donation, Vanderpump Rules and astonishing cookies for
@flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com/its-not-abou...
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It’s Not About the Cookies
There are 182,000 members of the Reddit community, r/vanderpumprules, a subreddit I have been really digging into since I started watching all eleven seasons, in order, of Vanderpump Rules, a reality ...
https://flaminghydra.com/its-not-about-the-cookies/
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New episode of CARBFACE featuring Andy Corren, author of DIRTBAG QUEEN
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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Uta Hagen in the Summer
Podcast Episode · Carbface · 08/23/2025 · 1h 3m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/carbface/id1331076906?i=1000723229818
about 1 month ago
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Flaming Hydra
about 1 month ago
TODAY:
@tomscocca.bsky.social
and
@mariabustillos.com
chat about The Argument, a new publication that is supposedly For The Left. "So they whiffed instantly on the most volatile topic in U.S. news right now, and I bet not by accident."
flaminghydra.com/r/eddbcc67?m...
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Liberal label / Tourist tips
Tom Scocca and Maria Bustillos on the latest media flimflam; advice for travelers from Trevor Alixopulos
https://flaminghydra.com/r/eddbcc67?m=1e1ac67a-2f95-4752-aff2-5b0a9ee15876
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Karen James
about 1 month ago
She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩
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See you in Manhattan with all these smart folks on October 28?
about 1 month ago
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Flaming Hydra
about 2 months ago
ALSO TODAY:
@lauriewoolever.bsky.social
looks at art in Norway. "[I]t would appear that people have been aura farming all along, centuries, in fact, before the age of antibiotics and electricity."
flaminghydra.com/art-for-arts...
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Art for Art’s Sake
a fiery writer-owned cooperative
https://flaminghydra.com/art-for-arts-sake/
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New episode of CARBFACE podcast featuring Helen Cho, the woman behind many of your fave docuseries:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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Show Us the Labubu
Podcast Episode · Carbface · 06/24/2025 · 53m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/carbface/id1331076906?i=1000714314881
3 months ago
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I wrote about being 23 and delusional in Ireland, for The Places Review:
theplacesreview.com/p/ireland-by...
4 months ago
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Air Mail
6 months ago
“When I left my hard-won editor job, I was 35 years old, an overwhelmed new mother who had once dreamed of rising through the ranks of a magazine.”
@lauriewoolever.bsky.social
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At 35, She Left Her Hard-Won Editor Job to Become Anthony Bourdain’s Assistant
It was the best decision Laurie Woolever ever made.
https://airmail.news/sh/XRhqDV/bs
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑
6 months ago
folks let me tell you: a normal administration is "veep shit." this signal stuff is not veep shit, it's "the entire national security team of the Trump admin is complicit in behavior that ensures that every hostile government has a direct line of sight into American-decisionmaking" shit
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My forthcoming book *isn’t* a Bourdain tell-all, but PEOPLE mag knows the angles and kindly excerpted it here:
people.com/anthony-bour...
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Anthony Bourdain’s Assistant Laurie Woolever Reveals His Eerie Final Texts to Her in Emotional Memoir (Exclusive)
In an exclusive excerpt from 'Care and Feeding: A Memoir,' Laurie Woolever offers a look inside her relationship with Bourdain — and the weeks leading up to his death by suicide.
https://people.com/anthony-bourdain-assistant-laurie-woolever-reveals-his-eerie-final-texts-memoir-care-and-feeding-exclusive-11685428
7 months ago
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Book tour dates for my forthcoming memoir, CARE AND FEEDING, published by Ecco:
8 months ago
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Maria Bustillos
8 months ago
If you want to do something to protect journalism, send money to journalist-owned, cooperative and local outlets. As much as you can spare.
@theflytrapmedia.bsky.social
@defector.bsky.social
@hellgatenyc.com
@404media.co
and the one I work at!!
flaminghydra.com/donate
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Flaming Hydra
a collective of 60 writers, on fire and hard to kill
https://flaminghydra.com
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COUNTING DOWN TO THE NEXT FYRE FESTIVAL: A Times Square Billboard Seeks Aid for LA Fire Victims. Is It for Real?
www.thecity.nyc/2025/01/16/l...
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A Times Square Billboard Seeks Aid for LA Fire Victims. Is It for Real?
With concerns growing about shady solicitations, an internet entrepreneur with a controversial business record insists he’s on the level.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/01/16/la-fire-aid-fundraiser-lineo-celestin/
8 months ago
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Drive In, Get a Coke
9 months ago
Big new ep of Carbface with me and
@lauriewoolever.bsky.social
. I talk about the odyssey for getting my sperm checked, and Laurie talks toilets.
shows.acast.com/carbface
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Jenny Rowe
10 months ago
What I'm reading at an info desk tonight at
@prairielights.com
: an ARC of Care and Feeding, a memoir by the late Anthony Bourdain's assistant
@lauriewoolever.bsky.social
. Sharp, insightful, and shies from nothing. Halfway through & devouring like a good meal! Look for it on March 11th, 2025.
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Flaming Hydra
12 months ago
ALSO TODAY:
@lauriewoolever.bsky.social
on some extremely restorative and important sandwiches
flaminghydra.com/party-all-th...
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Party All the Time Sandwiches
by Laurie Woolever Back when I was a problem drinker and pothead, I loved parties, which offered a chance to drink a lot for free and messily eat ill-advised quantities of crispy, fatty, salty and ...
https://flaminghydra.com/party-all-the-time-sandwiches/
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Maria Bustillos
over 1 year ago
The complex flavors of a story by
@lauriewoolever.bsky.social
are indescribable. Today a gentle, funny and wrenching story about her mom: 'The Lorna Doone Hour'
flaminghydra.com/issue-85/
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The long ending / Short subjects
Today: Laurie Woolever, author of Appetites, World Travel, and Bourdain: the Definitive Oral Biography; and Luke O'Neil, author of the story collection A Creature Wanting Form and the newsletter Welco...
https://flaminghydra.com/issue-85/
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I’d love to meet you at MOFAD! Let’s talk travel, Tony B, crab Rangoon and things of that nature:
over 1 year ago
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Flaming Hydra
over 1 year ago
Bugs. Hiding. Everywhere. Even in your body!! Eeeek, by
@lauriewoolever.bsky.social
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Sweltering Past 50
by Laurie Woolever I turned 50 a few weeks ago, on a Sunday. To celebrate, I spent several hours in a subterranean bathhouse. I love these places of communal soaks and steams, and I hadn’t been to ...
https://flaminghydra.com/sweltering-past-50/
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Maria Bustillos on the bright future of journalist-run media, at THE NATION:
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
over 1 year ago
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WE CAN GO OUT SWINGING!
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/m...
over 1 year ago
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Chicken of the Corn
flaminghydra.com/issue-4/
over 1 year ago
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Flaming Hydra
over 1 year ago
What the hell is "corn-fed" chicken, anyway? Don't all chickens eat corn? @lauriewoolever.bsky.social on
flaminghydra.com/iss...
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Meat Grinder / Chicken Feed
processing
https://flaminghydra.com/issue-4/#chicken-of-the-corn
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Jessie Losch
almost 2 years ago
Just been informed that serial rapist and cinnamon roll apologist Mario Batali posted that he’s “back” and I’m going to need people never, ever to say that
#MeToo
went too far or that men’s careers are ruined by allegations.
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Happy pub day to
@seanhowe.bsky.social
about 2 years ago
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Millicent Souris consistently writes about money and New York and class and financial predators in a way that lights my brain all the way up:
https://millicent.substack.com/p/money-money-money?utm_campaign=post
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Money, Money, Money
Always Sunny, in the Rich Man's World
https://millicent.substack.com/p/money-money-money?utm_campaign=post
about 2 years ago
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Talked about moms, sickness, death and how funny it can be on HAIRY BUTTHOLE podcast:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5V0gEHxRrtUwiavdZcPBkw?si=DUFFu9rtQpWrojkETldh-g
about 2 years ago
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Sharing this podcast episode here because I’m proud of it, the song is great, and the whole SongWriter series is such a great listen:
https://songwriterpodcast.com/laurie-woolever-mike-ruffino
about 2 years ago
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Happy birthday Am*ric@
about 2 years ago
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Catbus
over 2 years ago
if it fits, I sits
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Kristi Yamaguccimane
over 2 years ago
You ever think about how America normalized giving a cup of your pee to a corporation so you could bag groceries in order to hopefully see a doctor one day
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Despite her beauty, she occasionally dissociates and commits atrocities
over 2 years ago
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You won’t regret spending a few minutes with Auto Syndicate’s BONGO DANCE single and video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgqSaCCmcEg
over 2 years ago
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I’m writing a book for Ecco
over 2 years ago
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