Before I was a writer I was a baker. (More on that here.)
In 2011 I began working at the Chicago Reader, first as an editorial assistant, then staff writer, and finally as deputy editor, coordinating the culture section and overseeing the copy desk. I left the Reader in 2014 and moved with my partner to a tiny town in southwest Ohio, where I freelanced for publications including the Chicago Tribune, Chicago magazine, the Awl, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Epicurious, and others. In our free time we gardened and raised three ducks.
After a few years, we moved to New York, where I took a job as senior writer at Epicurious, the food and cooking website. I'm currently doing a sort of at-large thing for the site, and floating around the south and midwest (with dog in tow) looking for things to write about.
Some clips are here.
And: I'm on e-mail! At samuel [dot] lwe [at] gmail [dot] com.
Twitter too:
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is there anybody in charge at the new york times? like somebody who reads the articles before they’re published https://t.co/kS8UYnQjlR -
RT @nhannahjones: No. Because it’s made up journalism-ese used by folks and institutions too uncomfortable writing about race to be s… https://t.co/mV5ZhFFHrD
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RT @punksandwitch: Please read literally any history book. https://t.co/mjhPhl7ft8
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one thing i find confounding abt writers like jesse singal and alice dreger is, like, if your whole beat is communi… https://t.co/KX3SmmcnAz