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Lauren Markham

@laurenmarkham.bsky.social
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Writer - A MAP OF FUTURE RUINS (2024) - THE FAR AWAY BROTHERS (2017) - IMMEMORIAL (forthcoming February 2025) Other work in NY Times Magazine, Harper’s, The Guardian, Mother Jones, VQR & elsewhere

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The de Groot Foundation @degrootfoundation.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Meet 2026 Director's Grantee Lauren Markham! @laurenmarkham.bsky.social Lauren was awarded a grant for her book-length essay, EJECTOR SEAT, forthcoming from @transitbooks.bsky.social Learn about EJECTOR SEAT: degrootfoundation.org/lauren-markh...
Headshot of writer Lauren Markham looking at the camera. Her dark hair is pulled back, and she is wearing dangly green earrings and a red top. Her name, Lauren Markham, is on the lower half of the image in larger white font. A white strip at the bottom has The de Groot Foundation logo of an open book and the words "Director's Grantee" in maroon.Quote from 2026 Director's Grantee Lauren Markham, which reads: “By investigating responses to today’s polycrisis and future fears, my hope is that this book helps steer readers away from escapist bunker mentality and toward collective response.” The black text is on top of a white rectangle, with a red background behind it.
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Vanessa Hua @vanessahua.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Did not know "dark suburbia" was a Thing. Thank you Kirkus! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... #coyoteland
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Thank you so much for reading and sharing, dear Jeff - and for all you write and do 💙
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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 05/04/2026
“It is an all-too-common act of both historical amnesia and American exceptionalism to believe that the US is immune to an autocrat’s rise or fascistic takeover.” — @laurenmarkham.bsky.social on Lyndon LaRouche in “My Father’s Shadow,” now online www.thebeliever.net/my-fathers-s...
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My Father's Shadow - Believer Magazine
On a slate-gray Vermont day in the fall of 2003, I was on my way to College French 221 when a pair of attractive people in their late twenties stopped me at the crosswalk. “Hey!” called the trim blond...
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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 26/03/2026
@laurenmarkham.bsky.social recounts her father’s prosecution of political figure and alleged cult leader Lyndon LaRouche: www.thebeliever.net/my-fathers-s...
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My Father's Shadow - Believer Magazine
On a slate-gray Vermont day in the fall of 2003, I was on my way to College French 221 when a pair of attractive people in their late twenties stopped me at the crosswalk. “Hey!” called the trim blond...
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I got to write about my dad's fave foe and shadow self -- cult leader and politician Lyndon LaRouche -- for The Believer. I wish he were still alive to read it (my dad, that is.... I don't think LaRouche would favor the piece....)
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Naomi J. Williams @naomijwilliams.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A fascinating read by friend & former colleague @laurenmarkham.bsky.social about Americans seeking secondary citizenships for their kids. Curious about whether there’s a comparable move among Asian-Americans. Seeking a Second Passport at @newyorker.com
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Seeking a Second Passport
For some Americans, citizenship in a country their ancestors fled is now an insurance plan.
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Thank you, sweet Naomi. I miss you!
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
So excited to hang out with @billmckibben.bsky.social and anyone who wants to join us. Tomorrow, 4pm Pacific.
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Applications are due April 1st and there are still a few spaces left; we want to fill them with committed writers working on important projects. Is this you, or one of your friends, or colleagues, or students? Spread the word ! www.stmarys-ca.edu/storyboard-r...
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Storyboard Residency | Saint Mary's College
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Storyboard is the space I wish I'd had when writing my first book (and second... and even third.) The residency will involve craft talks, generative workshops, focused time to write, as well as time to connect and co-conspire with fellow artists & thinkers & cultural agitators.
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Storyboard Residency | Saint Mary's College
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Last year, our first, Storyboard welcomed historical fiction writers, journalists working on their first books, academics hoping to turn their dissertations into works for the wider public, memoirists wanting to deepen their texts with research, and more. www.stmarys-ca.edu/storyboard-r...
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Storyboard Residency | Saint Mary's College
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
We created Storyboard for writers working in any genre on what we think of as fact based creative projects––that is, projects in which research, language, art and fact co-mingle to reckon with the urgent concerns of the world as it is, was, or will be. (More on that here: lithub.com/truth-power-...
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Truth, Power, Art: A Critical Manifesto on Creative Nonfiction
Back in 2017, White House Press Secretary Kellyann Conway coined the phrase “alternative facts” to describe realities that were inconvenient to the first Trump Administration. Eight years later, as…
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Just a few more weeks to apply to Storyboard, a week-long writers residency in Moraga, CA this June. The animating ethic behind the Storyboard Residency is that writing, however feeble the written word can feel at times, is indeed of great social purpose. www.stmarys-ca.edu/storyboard-r...
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Storyboard Residency | Saint Mary's College
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
In the new issue of The Believer, I write about political cult leader and prototype for Q-Anon-level conspiracies, Lyndon LaRouche -- and my dad's many tangles with him in the court of law. The Believer is doing such good work these days, and I'm honored to be a part of it. Subscribe! Support!
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I've been beating this drum for years. But i no longer need to do much to convince ppl here at home. We’ve all seen it with our own eyes now: the lengths authoritarian leaders will go to criminalize -- or even kill -- anyone who tries to undermine their campaigns of violence.
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
anti-immigrant political campaigns aren't just tools to win votes; this rhetoric helps build the foundations of full authoritarian control. When the state legally and physically goes after immigrant defenders, it is clear that no one is safe
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Last year, I wrote about Tommy Olsen of the Aegean Boat Report -- an organization that tracks illegal refugee pushbacks by the Greek authorities-- and Greece's campaign to cast him as a criminal for his watchdog work. They've now issued a warrant for his arrest. inthesetimes.com/article/gree...
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The Fourth Wall
Recently, reports of illegal “pushbacks”–an illegal practice of forcibly returning refugees from whence they came–in Greece have soared. Tommy Olsen faces years in prison for documenting pushbacks onl...
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Thank you for reading and for the kind words and for striking xoxo Sending all my love to you and MN
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
🧡🧡🧡
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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 15/12/2025
"The Olive Oil Crisis," a story by @laurenmarkham.bsky.social published in @bloomberg.com, is Editorial and Communications Program Coordinator Katherine Jossi’s selection for the 2025 #PulitzerStaffPicks. 👉 bit.ly/YIStories25
The Olive Oil Crisis
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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 07/11/2025
Our first-ever Sports Issue is coming soon! Featuring @minakimes.bsky.social, Kiese Laymon, Jenny Odell, @lauravandenberg.bsky.social, a custom Believer-branded swim cap, and much more. Subscribe now and get 15% off: store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the...
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you're liking it.
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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
We’re celebrating 40 years of publishing and supporting our literary community with our good friends @litquake.org + Mechanics’ Institute + Daniel Handler + @laurenmarkham.bsky.social + @ingridrojasc.bsky.social Join us for drinks and cake! Free entry Thursday, 10/23, 7:30pm @ 7 Social SF
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 15/10/2025
The second issue of The Approach, a new print-only newspaper full of heavy-hitting Bay Area bylines, is out today. Our biz reporter @cydhayes.bsky.social chatted with editor @laurenmarkham.bsky.social to get the details:
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A bold approach
Writer and editor Lauren Markham introduces her print-only ‘organizing pamphlet-meets-literary magazine’ The Approach tonight at City Lights
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Longreads @longreads.com · 23/09/2025
"How quickly a state of careless ease becomes one of mortal peril. Enter the future." @laurenmarkham.bsky.social for @pioneerwork.bsky.social: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ed...
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Edge of Paradise | Broadcast
In Greece, where ancient history meets tourist fantasy, the climate crisis is accelerating faster than almost anywhere else in the global north.
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Ben Hess @benhess.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I’ve had the opportunity to interview fabulous executives, nonprofit leaders, and writers over the years. I’m always impressed when @billmckibben.bsky.social speaks about our fragile earth and solar energy. @laurenmarkham.bsky.social did an excellent job moderating tonight’s talk in #SanFrancisco!
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Thank you for coming! 🧡
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Shawn Musgrave @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Civil liberties advocates have warned about this for years: an ICE agent used data about remittances to Mexico to track down an immigrant, solely on a charge of unauthorized reentry — not money laundering or any other crime often used to justify such surveillance theintercept.com/2025/08/21/i...
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ICE Hunts Down Immigrants by Spying on Their Wire Transfers
Investigators traced the remittances an immigrant was sending from Hawaii to Mexico to figure out his location.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
This is part of the greater war on education and expertise that’s ongoing. A professional class of law enforcement is anathema to the people in power who want blunt weapons with which to beat the undesirables, not people who can think, and question, and refuse.
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Michael Smerconish @smerconish.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Michael sits down with journalist @laurenmarkham.bsky.social to unpack her fascinating piece in The Guardian on Italian towns offering homes for €1. Are Americans falling for a fantasy, or is the life swap dream real? Listen to the #podcast here 🎧➡️ loom.ly/lol3Ljw
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
“‘This is an unprecedented situation where hundreds of detainees are held incommunicado, with no ability to access the courts, under legal authority that has never been explained and may not exist,’ they argued.” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Lawyers question legality of Alligator Alcatraz, ask federal judge to intervene
“This is an unprecedented situation where hundreds of detainees are held incommunicado, with no ability to access the courts, under legal authority that has never been explained and may not exist,” pl...
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 28/07/2025
New Tool: Detention Reports Provides Valuable Updated Data about ICE Facilities Relevant Research launches Deportation Reports, a new tool w/ real-time data on ICE detention centers using our Interval ADP method for more accurate population estimates. austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-tool-d...
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New Tool: DetentionReports.com Provides Valuable Updated Data about ICE Facilities
Relevant Research launches Deportation Reports, a new tool providing real-time data on ICE detention centers using our Interval ADP method for more accurate population estimates.
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Thank you!!!
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
You’re the best 😘💕
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
A MAP OF FUTURE RUINS is a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and I couldn’t be happier about it 🧡
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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 04/07/2025
Olive farmers are noticing the effects climate change is having on their harvest, and many foresee a struggling future. Grantee @laurenmarkham.bsky.social traveled to #Greece to find out how rising temperatures are affecting these ancient crops. Story for @bloomberg.com. 👉 bit.ly/40FDJfZ
Although you can see the natural regrowth beginning around Evia, Father Christos acknowledges that for many young people, the struggle that awaits in the fields is no longer worth their while. Image by Myrto Papadopoulos. Greece, 2025.
An olive grove in Greece’s Mesogeia region. Image by Myrto Papadopoulos. Greece, 2025.
The old ways are still in use. Here, an olive grower picks the fruiting crop from the trees, then gathers them from her net into a bucket, preparing to screen them and remove any leaves, twigs or dirt. Image by Myrto Papadopoulos. Greece, 2025.
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Robyn, our indefatigable production editor, is loving IMMEMORIAL by @laurenmarkham.bsky.social and published by @transitbooks.bsky.social
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Thank you so much for this xo
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
@jennitaur.bsky.social and @laurenmarkham.bsky.social's discussion of "Immemorial," recently published by @transitbooks.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/buil...
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Building a Nest | Los Angeles Review of Books
Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.
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Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
💕😘😘
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I've been an immigration reporter for a long time. I've never seen communications from DHS appear quite this unhinged, unprofessional, and just wholly unconcerned with seeming legitimate.
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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
Marisa said she is eft with nothing BUt questions.
"What if I would have been armed," she 2 said. "You're breaking in. What am 1 supposed to think? My initial thought was we were being robbed-that my daughters, being females, were being kidnapped. You have guns pointed in our faces. Can you just reprogram yourself and see us as humans, as women? A little bit of mercy. Care a little bit about your fellow human, about your fellow citizen, fellow resident. We bleed too. We vork. We pleed justlike anybody else bleeds. We're scared. You could see our faces that we were terrified. What makes you so much more worthier of your peace? What makes you so much more worthier of protecting your children? What makes you so much more worthy of your citizenship? What makes you more worthy of safety? Of being given
the ight t that they took from me to protect my daughters?"
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Longreads @longreads.com · 28/04/2025
"A trick of climate change, or the trick of the effects of climate change, is that some of the biggest devastation is unseen by most of us." @laurenmarkham.bsky.social in conversation with @jennitaur.bsky.social for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/buil...
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Building a Nest | Los Angeles Review of Books
Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
"Do you ever have experiences, though, where you're like, 'am I just a high idiot thinking all of this is connected?" @laurenmarkham.bsky.social speaks with @jennitaur.bsky.social about people, books, and places as inspiration for "Immemorial." lareviewofbooks.org/article/buil...
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Building a Nest | Los Angeles Review of Books
Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
The weird, vague grammar of “you won’t have a country anymore.” Its deliberately awkward phrasing makes response impossible. What does it mean to “have” a country? If one doesn’t have it, where does it go?
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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
If you are or you know a USCIS officer at the Vermont Service Center, pls contact me on signal at tanvim.05. I've been covering immigration for 10 years, did it under Trump 1.0, and have a track record of protecting my sources' identities.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The U.S. says it doesn’t have the power to return Abrego Garcia. El Salvador also says it doesn’t have the power to return Abrego Garcia. It’s obvious bullshit and depraved to the core.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
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Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention
A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The world knows about climate change mostly because of great American researchers, and that work has been largely centered at NOAA. Trump and Musk are now shutting down that brilliant work. They are contemptible, short-sighted, and sold out www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
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