lauren groff
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Notable San Francisco: 5/17–5/23
If you can make only one event this week, don’t miss the Oakland Book Festival on Sunday, 5/21. This all-day festival features more than 100 writers, 50 panels, and lots of tabling and networking. And, The Rumpus will be there! Wednesday 5/17: Rakesh…
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Notable Twin Cities: 1/29–2/4
Monday 1/30: Start your week with a little whiskey. Magers & Quinn hosts writer Fred Minnick, author of Bourbon: The Rise, Fall & Rebirth of an American Whiskey. He’ll read from and answer questions about the book. 7 p.m., free.…
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Fates and Hashtags
What would the main characters from Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies be like on Twitter? At The Millions, Claire Cameron imagines what sort of missives Lotto and Mathilde Satterwhite would tweet out into the void.
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Independent Bookstore Day: Q&A with Lauren Groff
To help kick off the celebrations, The Rumpus has an exclusive Q&A with Lauren Groff, 2016 Bookstore Day Author Ambassador.
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Lovely in Person and on the Page
The deeper I get into this life of writing and making things, the more I understand that I don’t know. … As long as I feel like I’m trying to speak as much truth as I possibly can, and people…
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New Year, New Reading List
When Esquire released a list of “The 80 Best Books Every Man Should Read,” the magazine provoked ire and excoriation. But hey, at least Esquire has recognized its mistake. For its new list of “80 Books Every Person Should Read,”…
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Lauren Groff Talks Fates & Furies
In a lot of senses, this book is as much a critique of the novel as it is a novel. It’s about the assumptions we have about who gets to create, and what has been created, and how stories get…
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The Rumpus Interview with Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff talks about her new novel, Fates and Furies, the life of creative people and those who love them, and why she’s grateful to anyone who reads books.
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Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Anita Felicelli reviews Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff today in Rumpus Books.
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A Marriage of Fact and Fiction
In a review of Lauren Groff’s novel Fates and Furies, the Los Angeles Times writes: The stories we tell ourselves and others give our lives meaning and allow us to connect with those closest to us. These stories can also…
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How Do You Contend with the Hubris?
For Salon, Teddy Wayne interviews six prominent authors on what has shaped their thoughts into word: with Lauren Groff, Alexandra Kleeman, Helen Phillips, Matthew Salesses, Steve Toltz, and Claire Vaye Watkins.
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Writers for Choice
When she realized her local Planned Parenthood was struggling to stay open, author and board member Lauren Groff recruited two-dozen other writers to auction off various literary swag in a fundraising event called The Choice Auction. The group, which included…