Laura Schadler
Laura Schadler grew up in the mountains of Virginia. She studied filmmaking at Bard College, and writing at California College of the Arts. Her fiction has appeared in The Southern Review, Denver Quarterly, Gettysburg Review, Fourteen Hills, and West Branch Wired, among others. She teaches writing and is currently working on a novel.
Laura Schadler's Latest Posts
A Night to Remember: The Ritual Magic of Prom
Whatever details exist in our story of prom; heartbreak, rebellion, awkwardness, ambivalence, fun, or indifference, we all partook of this ritual experience, even if through rejection.
Every Day is Bike to Work Day
Whether you’re the kind of person who bikes to work every day or never bikes at all, May 9, also known as Bike To Work Day, is a celebratory moment to consider the delight that biking adds to our lives.
The Psychology of the Facebook “Unfriend”
Delete your ex-boyfriend if he makes you so mad you forget you’re a grown woman. Delete the friend you wouldn’t want to meet for a drink in real life. Grow apart like you should.
Love Note to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Dear Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Thank you for being the soundtrack to the last decade of my life. I love you.
5 Things to Do: Oh April, How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways
The good news is that it’s April; full-on springtime, rainy, pretty, warm, hopeful and there’s all sorts of cool stuff happening in San Francisco and beyond.
The Alluring Absurdism of Spring Breakers
Harmony Korine simultaneously embraces and subverts the reality he depicts, while claiming to do both and neither and not caring what we take from it.
Meet the Women of the Film Directors’ Boys Club
In honor of Women’s History Month, let’s celebrate the bold, inventive, awesomeness of female directors.
The Cool List: What You Love at 14 and What You Love at 34
It turns out my adult self is beholden to the influence of my teenage self in inextricable, enigmatic ways.
Will You Accept This Rose?: The Bachelor As Contemporary Gothic
Gothic stories must possess a few classic characteristics like devious seduction, counterfeit identity, prophecies and indiscretion. Sound familiar?
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