Lauren Archives

Lauren is a journalist and columnist who has covered the Netherlands for TIME magazine, CBS Radio, CBC, The Chicago Tribune, Dutchnews.nl and others since 1996, when she made the move from New Amsterdam to Old. A former deputy editor of Time Out Amsterdam, where she wrote the family issues column “Domestic Blitz,” she lives with her two daughters and Jack Russell Lucy, who often become fodder for her columns. A podcaster and creator of content large and small, Lauren’s also written an award-winning screenplay that’s still searching for a producer. An avid reader, Lauren loves most to escape into fiction after long days spent in reality. She’s keen to be part of the ABC family, working on creating great content! You can follow her on Twitter @LaurenComiteau

Bring on the banned books! September 2024 update

By Lauren Book banning in the US continued its stratospheric rise in 2023, with the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) reporting that challenges of unique titles surged 65% in 2023 compared to 2022—the highest level ever documented by [...]

Lilia2024-08-28T12:48:13+02:00Tags: Banned Books, George M. Johnson, Judy Blume, Juno Dawson, Lauren, Maia Kobabe, Margaret Atwood, Sarah J. Maas, Toni Morrison|

Reading classics with BookTok

By Lauren At ABC, we love anything that gets people reading, including introducing the next generation of booklovers to the classics. And as a mother of young adults, I can attest it’s not always easy. This is where BookTok comes in. It is a dedicated community of readers and reviewers whose [...]

Lilia2024-09-01T12:34:42+02:00Tags: BookTok, BookTok classics, Classics for teachers, General Fiction, Lauren|

The inside scoop: Where have all the magazines gone?

If you’ve been to our Amsterdam store recently, you may have noticed our magazine section has been reduced by half. Things have been less dramatic in The Hague, but the number of magazines on offer there has also been steadily decreasing. Many magazines still being printed are coming out less often [...]

Lilia2024-08-14T13:13:45+02:00Tags: ABC, ABC interview, Lauren, Lília, magazines|

Happy Pride Month!

By Lauren and Lília It’s Pride Month, celebrated every June to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York, when the gay community protested against its treatment by police. These days, June is a month of celebration and awareness about the LGBTQ+ community worldwide, but it’s especially marked in the US. [...]

The Pulitzer Prizes 2024

By Lauren The 2024 winners of the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes were announced earlier this week at New York’s Columbia University. Read on to see what they are and what the jurists had to say about them. Fiction Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips “A beautifully rendered [...]

Lilia2024-05-08T11:17:53+02:00Tags: Autobiography, Best of Lists, Biography, Brandon Som, Cristina Rivera Garza, Drama, Eboni Booth, Fiction, General Fiction, General Non-Fiction, History, Ilyon Woo, Jacqueline Jones, Janyne Anne Phillips, Jonathan Eig, Lauren, Memoirs, Nathan Thrall, Poetry, Prize winners|

The International Booker Prize 2024: The Shortlist

Written by Lauren Always looking for good book recs, we at ABC love spring’s literary award season. Last week, the International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist was announced in recognition of “the best works of literature originally written in languages other than English which have been translated and published in the UK [...]

Lilia2024-04-17T12:04:50+02:00Tags: Annie McDermott, Booker Prize, Hwang Sok-yong, Ia Genberg, Itamar Vieira Junior, Jenny Erpenbeck, Jente Posthuma, Johnny Lorenz, Kira Josefsson, Lauren, Michael Hofmann, Sarah Timmer Harvey, Selva Almada, Sora Kim-Russell, Translated Works, Youngjae Josephine Bae|

What to read this Black History Month

Written by Lauren It’s February, which means it’s Black History Month in the United States and Canada, a celebration and recognition of Black culture and history and its enduring legacy in lands far removed from the African continent. At the ABC, we’ve put together a list of reading recommendations for Black [...]

Lilia2024-02-18T15:29:45+01:00Tags: Best of Lists, Betsy Haynes, Black History Month, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ijeoma Oluo, Iris, James McBride, Jonna, Kathryn Stickett, Lauren, Lynn, NoViolet Bulawayo, Ralph Elison, Renni Eddo-Lodge, Sophie, Staff Picks|

X: ABC Top 5 2023 Edition: Lauren, Maarten and Lília

Here we go again with our 5(ish) favorite reads of 2023! We try very hard to keep it to five, but it’s not always possible. So, there may be five or six suggestions, an A and a B list, memorable reads or just plain marvelous books. This year we’re presenting [...]

Lilia2023-12-24T17:43:56+01:00Tags: ABC Top 5, ABC Top 5 2023, Best of Lists, Biography, Cooking, Crime Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, General Fiction, Lauren, Lília, Maarten, Romantasy, Romantic Fiction, Science, Science Fiction, Staff Picks, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult|

And the 2023 Nobel Prize goes to…Jon Fosse

Written by Lauren Norwegian author, poet and playwright Jon Fosse has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Swedish Academy called his "innovative plays and prose which gives voice to the unsayable." The 64-year-old's major works, written in the Nynorsk variation of Norwegian, include the Septology [...]

Lilia2023-10-08T15:35:58+02:00Tags: Jon Fosse, Lauren, Nobel Prize Winner, Norwegian author|

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