Lauren Groff Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Lauren Groff

I was in grad school at UW-Madison when C. Michael Curtis published one of my workshop stories out of the slush pile. I remain astonished and grateful. A careful, thoughtful, brilliant editor and man. https://t.co/qziQj4C0ZU

Lauren Groff

Over the moon that “The Midnight Zone” is in The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, edited by the great @FreemanReads (look at this TOC, dang.) https://t.co/oCvwoJjFCO

Lauren Groff

Only tonight, decades after first encountering him onscreen, did I understand that Orlando Bloom is the decades-delayed personification of high modernism, the marriage of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce in one tidy lovely elfin package.

Lauren Groff

Blown away by the excellence of Jean Stafford’s debut novel (The Mountain Lion is one of my favorites). I’ll be talking with Kathryn Davis, Ann Humbert and @Rumaan (whose intro is great!) about it on July 22nd, hosted by @CommunityBkstr and @nyrbclassics https://t.co/fnJZYDQujB https://t.co/OgA0sdlRgI

Lauren Groff

I absolutely loved Magnificent Rebels. Come see the brilliant @andrea_wulf on her US tour. https://t.co/j2G12w2JSd

Lauren Groff

Anyway, these are among the best books I’ve read recently: Jon Fosse’s Septology (tr. Damion Searls) and The Employees by @OlgaRavn (tr. Martin Aitken). Both bonkers, moving, dazzlingly risky; both set their own exquisite terms. https://t.co/5H5IoSp5Yc

Lauren Groff

Instead of a single book party for the excellent KILL SHOT by @JHDearen, we had a series of distanced micro-parties throughout the neighborhood. (Also Jason’s birthday, hence the headgear). https://t.co/SQ23KW8qBf

Lauren Groff

I’m so broken down by isolation that I can’t get four pages into T.J. Clark’s The Sight of Death without weeping. Just—the patience and persistence and love it takes to visit the same painting day after day and see new things, better things, how the light changes, it’s so moving.

Lauren Groff

It was utterly delightful to be reading along in REFUSE TO BE DONE, the new craft book by @mdbell79, and find a little dollop of my second novel, ARCADIA. https://t.co/XHUrmqsOtf

Lauren Groff

It ties 2666 by Roberto Bolaño as my favorite book from the 21st century... What I read was nothing less than a desperate prayer made radiant by sudden spikes of ecstatic beauty.