Podcast with Jeanne Marie Laskas
By Matt Tullis
November 26, 2013
On the most recent Gangrey: The Podcast, Matt Tullis talks with Jeanne Marie Laskas, a correspondent for GQ and the director of The Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh.
She is the author of six books, including her latest, “Hidden America,” as well as the award-winning trilogy of memoirs: “Fifty Acres and Poodle,” “The Exact Same Moon,” and “Growing Girls.”
At GQ, Laskas writes about everything from concussions to migrant workers to hit-men.
Formerly a contributing editor at Esquire, and a weekly columnist (“Significant Others”) at The Washington Post Magazine, she has been writing for national magazines for twenty years, with work appearing in The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, O: The Oprah Magazine, Allure, Ladies Home Journal, and many others.
Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Best American Magazine Writing and Best American Sports Writing.
