User:SojoQ/Laura Miller (writer)

Laura Miller (born February 12, 1960) is an American journalist and critic based in New York City. She is a co-founder of Salon.com, where she is currently a staff writer, and a contributor to the New York Times Book Review, where she wrote the "Last Word" column for two years. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, Time, the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and other publications. She is the author of The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia and co-editor of The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors.

Personal Life
Miller was raised as a Catholic and grew up in California. (She has since said she deplores the Church's "guilt-mongering and tedious rituals.") In 1995, Miller helped to co-found Salon.com.

Career
In 1995, Miller helped to co-found Salon.com.

She is the author of The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia, a book about C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia fantasy series, her enchantment with it as a child, and her disenchantment with it when she realized its heavy-handed Christian parallels as an adult.

Original books

 * The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia (Little, Brown, 2008)

Essays

 * It's OK to admit that H.P. Lovecraft was a racist (September, 2014)

Selected Articles and Reviews

 * The Strange Case of Nordic Detectives (January 2010)


 * A Recipe for Escapism (May, 2009)


 * Not your father's roadmaster: Stephen King's thriller revolves around an evil Buick that's connected to another dimension (September, 2002)

As editor

 * The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors with Adam Begley (Penguin, 2000)

Events

 * Rutgers-Camden Summer Writers' Conference, faculty, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey (June/July 2015)