Blair Glaser Wrote About Moving To Los Angeles

by | December 10, 2025

For the Los Angeles Times, Blair Glaser wrote about moving back to L.A. Glaser shared with Study Hall the process of landing her pitch: “Unless there’s a timely, splashy newsworthy hook, personal essays in periodicals are nearly impossible to sell. But I studied the LA:Affairs column because I knew I wanted to write one about taking a risk and moving to Los Angeles with my new husband at 50, even though my first move there after college was a disaster. I was thrilled when the editor accepted the essay a week after I pitched it. It went live the following week.” 

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