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Andrea Laurion

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Andrea Laurion is a writer and performer from Pittsburgh, with essays and humor writing appearing in the Washington Post, The Hairpin, The Billfold, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Neutrons Protons, and The Toast, among others. She's on Twitter, like everyone else: @andrealaurion.
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Don’t Think Twice and the Power of Improvising through the Unknown

  • Andrea Laurion
  • April 13, 2017
It’s a little extraordinary when you realize that you’re the one getting in your own way.
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You’ve Got Mail and the Internet of Ordinary People

  • Andrea Laurion
  • September 8, 2016
You’ve Got Mail was one of the first movies to depict the Internet as it affects the lives of ordinary users.
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Ben Folds - Rockin The Suburbs | Rumpus Music
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Albums of Our Lives: Ben Folds’s Rockin’ The Suburbs

  • Andrea Laurion
  • February 18, 2016
“Annie Waits” summed me up in ways that I wasn’t consciously aware of at the time and not only because Annie was my childhood nickname.
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Where I’m Reading: The Brown Corduroy Couch

  • Andrea Laurion
  • September 23, 2013
In the three years since my friend Abby gave me her couch, she moved four times, changed jobs twice, became engaged, got married, and gave birth. During that same time…
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