Meet Rachel Dodes & Lauren Mechling | Authors of ’The Memo’

2024-06-26

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We're chatting with Rachel Dodes and Lauren Mechling, authors of THE MEMO. Join this lively conversation about their work! ABOUT RACHEL DODES: Rachel Dodes is a freelance culture writer. She’s a regular contributor to Vanity Fair, and her work has also appeared in Town & Country, ELLE, Esquire, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Buzzfeed among other publications. Her first novel, The Memo—co-written with her friend Lauren Mechling —will be published by Harper Perennial in June ...

We're chatting with Rachel Dodes and Lauren Mechling, authors of THE MEMO. Join this lively conversation about their work!

ABOUT RACHEL DODES:

Rachel Dodes is a freelance culture writer. She’s a regular contributor to Vanity Fair, and her work has also appeared in Town & Country, ELLE, Esquire, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Buzzfeed among other publications.

Her first novel, The Memo—co-written with her friend Lauren Mechling —will be published by Harper Perennial in June 2024. It’s currently being developed for television by Wiip.

Dodes previously was a staff writer at The Wall Street Journal where she covered the fashion and film industries. Starting in 2017, she co-hosted a weekly independent news/comedy podcast called “Nope,” until the news became so unfunny she had to go on hiatus. She lives in New York with her husband, son and dog.

ABOUT LAUREN MECHLING:

Lauren Mechling has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, The New Yorker online, and Vogue, where she writes a book column. She’s worked as a crime reporter and metro columnist for The New York Sun, a young adult novelist, and a features editor at The Wall Street Journal. A graduate of Harvard College, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.

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