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Laura Yan

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Come for the Crullers, Stay for the Community

by Krista Stevens June 18, 2018October 19, 2022

“It’s funny, how a seemingly soulless franchise started to feel like an old friend, once I spent enough time there.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes

Harshing the Internet Poet’s Mellow

by Aaron Gilbreath November 20, 2017October 19, 2022

Instagram poet Collin Andrew Yost got trounced online, but his experience offers a lesson in how to cultivate empathy.

x-ray of a broken arm
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Sports

Portrait of the Risk-Taker as a Young Man (or, There’s Something About Spencer)

by michelleweber February 25, 2017October 19, 2022

In Victory Journal, Laura Yan profiles Spencer Seabrooke, who breaks world slacklining records walking across loosely tensioned, inch-wide pieces of polyester suspended hundreds of meters in the air.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Never Die

by michelleweber February 23, 2017October 19, 2022

Spencer Seabrooke wanted to break a slacklining record. The only problem was that if he failed, he’d die.

Posted inNonfiction

The ‘Shaman’: A Committed Solo Traveler Struggles to Reconcile Being Raped While Abroad

by Longreads July 14, 2016October 19, 2022

As an avid solo traveler—and proponent of the empowerment traveling alone can offer women—Laura Yan has been conflicted about revealing she was raped in Bolivia.

Posted inNonfiction, Story

The ‘Shaman’: A Committed Solo Traveler Struggles to Reconcile Being Raped While Abroad

by Longreads July 14, 2016October 19, 2022

As an avid solo traveler—and proponent of the empowerment traveling alone can offer women—Laura Yan has been conflicted about revealing she was raped in Bolivia.

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