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.”
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.
Bustle Book Club
Ottessa Moshfegh Is Writing Out Loud
As a screenwriting duo, the author and her husband have developed a “high intensity” way of working.
Long Live The Livestrong
The True Genius Of 'Saltburn' Lies In Jacob Elordi’s Favorite Accessory
His Livestrong bracelet speaks volumes.
Stepping Out
Danielle Olivera Is Happy To Be Your Ride Or Die
“I’m going to have your back in this, and you know that I’m intelligent enough to do it the right way.”
Bustle Book Club
How Sarah Blakley-Cartwright “Broke Every Rule Of The Universe”
The author explores an unusual dynamic in her new novel, Alice, Sadie, Celine.
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At 14, JoJo Siwa Was Crushing On Zendaya
The performer reflects on her life in her early teens — including the time she spent her birthday in a tornado shelter.
Sami Sheen’s Parents Can’t Be Mad
The model and daughter of Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen reflects on sex work, boob jobs, and growing up in the tabloids and on Real Housewives.
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At 14, Ziwe Related To Steve Harvey For This Crushing Reason
In her debut essay collection, the comedian applies her irreverent wit to the cringey realities of teenagedom.
Boys Will Be Boys
The Rise Of The Lowercase Boys
All confidence, no caps: This is the new reality women are facing in their DMs.