Samantha Leach is the Entertainment Editor at Large at Bustle, where she writes cover stories, celebrity profiles, and cultural criticism. In this role she’s interviewed everyone from Charlie Puth to Tina Brown.
Previously, the Pitzer College graduate spent three years on the features team at Glamour and severed as a production assistant on the Netflix documentary, Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. Her work has also appeared in New York magazine, Harper’s BAZAAR, ELLE, as well as many other publications.
Her debut book, The Elissas, was published in June 2023 and was heralded by the New York Times as a, “Smart and gripping debut [in which] Leach refreshes a familiar heartbreak by weaving the stories of these three lost young women into a larger, more complicated and ultimately tragic narrative of a nation not so much losing the war on drugs as on a death march every bit as doomed as the last battles in Sparta.”
Bustle Book Club
Honor Levy Doesn’t Want To Make You Angry
Though the author is known for stirring the pot, her debut approaches difficult subjects with empathy.
Curtain Call
'Merrily We Roll Along' Star Lindsay Mendez Takes Bustle Backstage
The actor was nominated for a Tony Award, as were co-stars Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe.
Bustle Exclusive
Paris Hilton Is Taking On The Troubled-Teen Industry
As a child, the heiress witnessed the industry’s horrors firsthand. Now, she’s fighting back.
Pura Vida
Why I’m Trading Coachella For W Presents
W Hotels’ global concert series pairs the fun of music festivals with the comfort of a swanky hotel.
The Hot Seat
Scheana Shay Doesn’t Care If You Don’t Like Her
The Vanderpump Rules star opens up about the show’s best and worst moments.
Paapa Essiedu Is A Classically Trained Charmer
In The Effect — Essiedu’s buzziest role since I May Destroy You — the British actor brought Shakespearean precision to a very messy romance.
Stepping Out
Dolly Alderton Gives It To You Straight
The Good Material author reveals her theories about love, friendship, and at-home martinis.
Om Nom Nom
If You Don’t Bite Your Partner, Do You Even Love Them?
Behind closed doors, everyone’s chomping down.
Entertainment
Lindsay’s Glorious Return
Lindsay Lohan is back. She’s bringing the peace she’s found — abroad and in marriage and motherhood — with her.
Bustle Book Club
Emmeline Clein’s Debut Book Takes A Critical Look At Y2K Pop Culture
In Dead Weight, she unpacks how disordered eating was the norm in many of the mainstream hits.
The Hostess With The Mostest
If Gabriella Khalil Builds It, The Stars Will Come
The hotelier behind the celebrity-approved Palm Heights builds buzz like no one else.
Books
The Books It Girls Are Actually Reading
Step aside, literary fiction. A new genre has rolled into town, and it’s earning fans in high-fashion places.
Bustle Book Club
The Author Of 'Such A Fun Age' Is Back With Another Page-Turner
For Kiley Reid’s second novel, she brings readers to a college dorm room.
Locker Room Talk
Soft Jocks Take The Field
A new crop of athletes are choosing to forgo alpha-maledom and instead embrace sensibilities their teammates might once have decried as “beta.”
Bustle Book Club
With 'The Fury,' Alex Michaelides Learned To Let Go
The celebrated author of The Silent Patient and The Maidens found a new way of working.
Books
Read The First Pages Of Emma Rosenblum’s Highly Anticipated Novel, 'Very Bad Company'
BDG’s Chief Content Officer is releasing the follow-up to her national bestseller, Bad Summer People. Get an early look at the cover — and an exclusive excerpt.
Entertainment
Jake Johnson Is In A Long-Term Relationship With His Fans
The New Girl star’s directorial debut, comedy-thriller Self Reliance, pays homage to the will-they-won’t-they romance that made him famous.
Books
Alix Strauss Still Feels The Joy Of Funerals
Twenty years after the release of her debut book, The Joy of Funerals, Strauss believes there’s more to mine from these ceremonies than ever.
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At 14, Ariana Madix Had Her First Kiss
The Vanderpump Rules star and soon-to-be Broadway actor reflects on her life as a young theater kid.
Entertainment
Glen Powell’s Hot Pursuits
The famously nice star of Anyone But You isn’t afraid to fight for what he wants.