And because you asked for it - Future episodes will be in video form. Lauren Hough understands the challenges of escaping an abusive situation. Please email Wendy and Maureen at now have a YouTube Channel! Please hit the Subscribe button when you get there. If you would like to support the show, we do have partner opportunities available. We love writing and would love for you to read what we write. LAUREN HOUGH was born in Germany and raised in seven countries and West Texas. Last month, Lauren Hough, a first-time author, received good news from an editor at her publishing house: Her essay collection Leaving Isn’t The Hardest Thing, published last year, was set. She’s also the author of Bad Reads, an Substack journal both random and profound, and utterly addictive. The premise of her book is what if all the men disappeared. Lauren Hough: My book won’t win a prize because my friend Sandra Newman wrote a book. Her memoir has won numerous literary prizes. Author Lauren Hough Loses Lambda Prize Nomination After Suggesting People Read a Forthcoming Book Before They Condemn It.
Air Force, where she got death threats and her car was set ablaze because shes. At 18, partly to spite her dad, Hough enlisted in the U.S. Her pacifist father had joined the cult in 1970 or so to dodge the Vietnam War. Born in Berlin, raised in 7 countries as part of a cult known as the Children of God that robbed her of an education and any sense of self or family, Lauren eventually found her voice. Lauren Hough grew up in the infamous, apocalyptic Christian free-love and -sex cult The Family, formerly The Children of God. Lauren Hough defies categorization so we’re not going to even try. Any appraisal of Lauren Hough that attempts to match the authors own coruscating honesty in her debut memoir-in-essays can only conclude that she is the. Caution: some spectacularly colourful language. Author of a collection of essays called “Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing”, Lauren causes us to consider what IS the hardest thing? Growing up in a doomsday sex cult? Joining the Air Force and almost getting court-martialed? Going to jail? Traveling around the country in a van with her dog? Being a 6 foot lesbian? We caught up with Lauren, all jet-lagged from a trip to Paris, to talk about writing, religion and cheese.
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Each piece is a reckoning: of survival, identity, and how to reclaim one’s past when carving out a future.Lauren Hough is living a remarkable life.
Here, as she sweeps through the underbelly of America–relying on friends, family, and strangers alike–she begins to excavate a new identity even as her past continues to trail her and color her world, relationships, and perceptions of self.Īt once razor-sharp, profoundly brave, and often very, very funny, the essays in Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing interrogate our notions of ecstasy, queerness, and what it means to live freely. She’s taken pilgrimages to the sights of her youth, been kept in solitary confinement, dated a lot of women, dabbled in drugs, and eventually found herself as what she always wanted to be: a writer. The cult took her all over the globe–to Germany, Japan, Texas, Chile–but it wasn’t until she finally left for good that Lauren understood she could have a life beyond “The Family.”Īlong the way, she’s loaded up her car and started over, trading one life for the next. Growing up as a member of the infamous cult The Children of God, Hough had her own self robbed from her. Air Force, a cable guy, a bouncer at a gay club. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL.Īs an adult, Lauren Hough has had many identities: an airman in the U.S. Searing and extremely personal essays from the heart of working-class America, shot through with the darkest elements the country can manifest–cults, homelessness, and hunger–while discovering light and humor in unexpected corners.
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