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selected writing
ESSAYS & CRITICISM
On Kandor, Poetry
On an old green coat, The Chalice
On Zohran & the NYC music community, The FADER
On Newport Folk Festival—an event guide!, Thrillist
On the Frick and Jupiter Ensemble, VAN
On rabbit holes, Majuscule
On Gary the Snail perfume, NYLON
On god games, Real Life
On The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Angel Food; on Dead Weight, Los Angeles Review of Books
On Avril Lavigne’s Let Go, Nylon; on Great Grandpa’s Four of Arrows, Pitchfork; on Remi Wolf’s I’m Allergic to Dogs!, Pitchfork
On curses, fools, and Rigoletto, VAN
On clowns, Creem
On “I’m Baby,” Vice
On Radio Free Roscoe, The FADER
PROFILES & FEATURES
On Angel Olsen, (cover story) Crack Magazine; on fantasy of a broken heart, i-D; on LustSickPuppy, Creem; on Doll Skin, Vice
On FKA twigs, (cover story) Crack Magazine; on boygenius, Flood; on Nilüfer Yanya, Highsnobiety; on Orville Peck, WePresent; on Caroline Polachek, Dazed; on Josie & The Pussycats, The FADER
On Bedouine, The FADER; on Johan Renck, The Wall Street Journal; on Laurie Spiegel, Crack Magazine; on Remember Sports, The FADER; on New York’s avant-garde dance scene, Dazed
INTERVIEWS
Sheryl Crow, Vanessa Carlton, The Wall Street Journal
Lucy Dacus, Heba Kadry, Elaine Kahn, Dreamcrusher, Angel Marcloid, Sam Riviere, The Creative Independent
John Carpenter, Phoebe Bridgers, Molly Nilsson, Jenny Zhang, The women who engineered Björk’s Utopia, The FADER
Holly Herndon, Vice; Deerhoof’s Ed Rodriguez, Flood
about
Leah Mandel is a writer and editor based in NYC with an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University. She does copywriting, copyediting, research, artist bios, trend analysis, and has been a music curator for SoundCloud and Google. She is working on a book of essays about miniatures. And maybe a novel, too, who knows.
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