Lauren Hough: Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing

<div>In this week’s Book Club podcast my guest is Lauren Hough - author of an outstanding new collection of autobiographical essays called <em>Leaving Isn’t The Hardest Thing </em>which<em> </em>describe a life that took her from growing up in the Children Of God cult via being discharged from the US Air Force and jobs as a bouncer in a gay bar and a “cable guy” on the road to being a writer. She tells me about not writing a misery memoir, what elites don’t know about working class life, “lesbian drama”, and the benefits of revising your work on magic mushrooms.</div>