Laurie Winer

Laurie Winer is a founding editor of LARB and the author of Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical (2023). She now lives in France and is at work on a book called The Hitler Tour.

Articles

Radio Hour: Father’s Day, The Tony’s, and Drinking Mare's Milk
Julia Claiborne Johnson, Laurie Winer, Norman Klein, Seth GreenlandJun 17, 2016
The Ecstatic Experience: “Hamilton,” “Hair,” and “Oklahoma!”
Miranda makes Hamilton’s story the stories of the young in the audience, the ones who feel that the future of the country is in their hands.
Laurie WinerJun 12, 2016
- History
Radio Hour: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's 'The Nest' plus John Romano on George Eliot
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, John Romano, Laurie Winer, Seth GreenlandMay 27, 2016
An Interview with Ryan Gattis, author of “All Involved”
Laurie Winer, Ryan Gattis, Seth GreenlandApr 29, 2016
How to Write a Musical
When you’re making a work of art, it feels like it will kill you. It won’t kill you. But you feel like it will.
Laurie WinerJun 7, 2015
The Marriage Plot: Three Versions of “Wolf Hall”
The story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn has been told and retold from hundreds of angles. So why did Hilary Mantel’s version catch fire?
Laurie WinerApr 30, 2015
- Fiction
- Television
Life Is Easier than We Make It
"The Slap" is about people who are so distracted they have very little sense of how to count their blessings.
Laurie WinerMar 19, 2015
- Television
An Ongoing Autobiography of a Slightly Younger Self
Laurie Winer speaks with 'Girls' creator Lena Dunham
Laurie WinerJan 25, 2015
- Television
The Love Letters of Heinrich Himmler
"The Decent One" heralds a new kind of Holocaust documentary, one made by a documentarian two generations removed from the original horror, one that dares to look at a perpetrator with the assumption that he is not an animal or a monster but a human being.
Laurie WinerOct 29, 2014
- History
[VIDEO] Chip Kidd at the 2014 LA Times Book Fest
Renowned book cover designer Chip Kidd speaks with LA Review of Books editor Laurie Winer at the 2014 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
Laurie WinerJun 24, 2014
The Only People Here: Lorrie Moore’s Latest
Lorrie Moore's Bark, says Laurie Winer, gives "a shimmering sense of life passing in all of its aching beauty."
Laurie WinerFeb 23, 2014
Pride and Paragon: Listening to George Eliot’s “Middlemarch”
Laurie Winer reviews the Audible.com version of George Eliot's "Middlemarch."
Laurie WinerNov 27, 2013
- Fiction
Listening to George Eliot’s “Middlemarch”
Laurie WinerNov 27, 2013
- Fiction
After "Breaking Bad": What Now?
Breaking Bad sparked a national dialogue with astonishing range and depth.
Laurie WinerSep 29, 2013
Oscar and “Les Miz”
'Les Misérables,' Oscar Hammerstein, and the modern musical
Laurie WinerDec 25, 2012
The Mormon Candidate
Mitt Romney has described his faith as “the single most important influence in his life.” He did not go into details.
Laurie WinerAug 26, 2012