Welcome to the Official Website of Lauren Slater

Lauren Slater is the author The $60,000 Dog: My Life With Animals. Kirkus Reviews called it: “A revealing, often surprising memoir . . . Slater continually surprises with connections she makes. Beautifully written, and not just for animal lovers.” Read more about the book here.

Slater is also the author of  Welcome to My Country, Prozac DiaryLying: A Metaphorical Memoir, Opening Skinner’s Box, the short-story collection Blue Beyond Blue, and Love Works Like This. She was editor of the 2006 edition of Best American Essays and co-edited (with Jessica Henderson Daniel and Amy Banks) The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women. Read more about Lauren here.

Praise for Lauren Slater and her work:

“The beauty of Lauren Slater’s prose is shocking. . . . Slater’s vision is, ultimately, one of unity and possibility.”—Claire Messud, Newsday

“A lovely writer, easily read, often poetic.”—Michael Winerip, The New York Times Book Review

“An enormously poetic and ebullient writer.”—Elle

“Slater’s writing is confessional without being sentimental, honest without being overbearing.”—Joseph P. Kahn, The Boston Globe

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O Magazine: Depression Makeover

O Mag Photo

Photo: Chris Crisman

In O Magazine:

“My depression has been with me for so long now, I know it like a friend. And like a friend, I can remember the day we met, when I was only 5—bright white with summer heat, the roses burning on their bushes, the whole world suddenly flattening out, and colors draining from their forms, leaving behind etched outlines of things that before had been vibrant. I don’t have a why, a pinpoint, a reason. I only know that as time went by and I grew up, so did my depression, moving around in my body, making lead of my legs, filling my head with fog. Now, as I near 50—face lined, body carrying many more pounds than it should—my depression, it seems, inhabits my heart and, despite my considerable bulk, takes the shape of a slim speckled stone worn smooth by my body’s currents, its contours changing over time while its essence stays the same. My depression does magic. Poof! Each day it disappears at around 4 or 4:30 in the afternoon and then—slam!—returns at dawn, sapping my energy, stealing color from trees and leaves and socks and spoons, everything still and silent as if under some spell.”

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Depression-Makeover-Lauren-Slater-Essay#ixzz2PyRxdPMM

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