Sam Lansky


Sam Lansky is a journalist, author and editor at TIME magazine. He has written for New York Magazine, The Atlantic, Esquire, Out, and Grantland.

Early life

Lansky came out as gay at the age of 11. After his parents divorced, he lived with his father in Manhattan and attended the Dwight School. He began using drugs when he was in his early teens. He was forcibly entered into a wilderness rehabilitation in Utah at 17 and became sober when he was 19.

Career

He enrolled in the New School and got a degree in creative writing. He worked as a freelance music critic before joining the editorial staff of TIME. At TIME he profiled Madonna, Nicki Minaj and Adele.
In 2016, he released his first book The Gilded Razor, a memoir of his troubled teenage years. On writing the book, he said, "I cleaned up my act and turned my life around when I was really young. Even though it’s crazy to be releasing a memoir at 27, having not lived that long, I’m writing about things that happened a full decade ago. It took me a while to feel like I had enough distance to tell the story in the way that I wanted to tell it, but I feel like I reached a point to look back on it, and be removed enough to do it justice."
Lansky's debut novel, Broken People, was published by Hanover Square Press in 2020.

Personal life

, Lansky lives in Los Angeles.

Books

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