“It’s funny, how a seemingly soulless franchise started to feel like an old friend, once I spent enough time there.”
Laura Yan
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
Harshing the Internet Poet’s Mellow
Instagram poet Collin Andrew Yost got trounced online, but his experience offers a lesson in how to cultivate empathy.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Sports
Portrait of the Risk-Taker as a Young Man (or, There’s Something About Spencer)
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
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
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
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.