Influences
Laskas' other works include "Hidden America" (2012)", Growing Girls" (2006),"The Exact Same Moon" (2003), and "Fifty Acres and Poodle" (2000). Laskas' work has been widely anthologized, including in "The" "Best American Magazine Writing 2008" ("Underworld") and "The" "Best American Sportswriting 2000", "2002", "2008", "2010" ("Game Brain"), and "2012". Her "New York Times Magazine" article "The Mailroom" was a finalist in feature writing for the 2018 National Magazine Awards. Her "GQ" piece about coal miners, "Underworld," was also a finalist in feature writing in 2008. Her earliest essays and features are compiled in "The Balloon Lady and Other People I Know" (1996).