Top Shelf With Lauren Sams

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BY LAURA BRADING 

Lauren Sams is a fashion editor who writes about the local and global fashion industry. She is also a published author and prolific reader with exceptional taste, and a swathe of recommendations up her sleeve at any given moment. We asked Lauren about her ideal reading room, the book she’s embarrassed to have loved but loved all the same, and the one she recommends to everyone. Have your pencil ready, dear reader, your to-be-read pile is about to get a whole lot longer.

Describe your ideal reading room.

Quiet, occupied solely by me. Rain pouring outside (if it’s sunny I’ll feel like I should be enjoying the outdoors). Coffee in hand. No deadlines. Chores done. In other words: nothing but uninterrupted reading ahead of me.

An author whose books you will always read.

Curtis Sittenfeld. I have adored her since I read Prep many years ago (I am fascinated by boarding schools; I think it’s an Enid Blyton hangover) and I have read everything she has written since then. I even read her short story collections and I hate short stories. I think she manages to be smart and light at the same time, which is a very difficult thing to achieve.

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Read more about Lauren Sams' reading life at PRIMER. 

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