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

@efnmonster I’d love to pair it with Dante’s Inferno and see the explosion when they meet.

Lauren Groff

I’ve been a fan of Cormac McCarthy’s forever—don’t know yet how I feel about his two new books. But the audiobook of Stella Maris, narrated by Julia Whelan and Edoardo Ballerini (the titans), is probably the ideal way to read this confounding book. They make it sing.

Lauren Groff

RT @PenguinClassics: The award-winning, bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard, THE TRANSIT OF VENUS, is now available for the…

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

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

Lauren Groff

@vincentscarpa Read not long ago—Proust getting equally horny about an orchid (and Charlus and Jupien’s quick bang in Jupien’s shop, which Marcel creepily eavesdropped on) in Sodom and Gomorrah. https://t.co/woz8Ly9lr2

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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

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.