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Lauren Bufferd

Nashville

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Contributor at BookPage

Reading, writing, listening to music, parenting, running a museum

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  • 1 week ago | bookpage.com | Lauren Bufferd

    The summer Ellis Samuelson graduates from high school, he meets Julia, a college student living in a dilapidated communal house called Bug Hollow in beautiful northern California. Reluctantly caving to the wishes of his parents, he leaves Julia and Bug Hollow for college, only to die tragically days before classes start, breaking the hearts of his parents and siblings.

  • 1 month ago | bookpage.com | Lauren Bufferd

    Madeleine Thien’s ambitious fourth novel, The Book of Records, is a tale of exile and migration inhabited by characters both imagined and drawn from the historical record. The novel traverses the globe, from China to Staten Island, and encompasses centuries, from the 8th century to the 20th and beyond.

  • Mar 17, 2025 | bookpage.com | Lauren Bufferd

    Nicole Cuffy’s ambitious second novel, O Sinners!, opens with New York journalist Faruq Zaidi on assignment to embed with “the nameless,” a spiritual group with their headquarters in Northern California. Led by Odo, a charismatic Black Vietnam War vet, the nameless’ residential compound in the midst of the forest is part experiment in utopian communal living, part inflexible sect.

  • Mar 3, 2025 | bookpage.com | Lauren Bufferd

    Charlotte McConaghy’s novels blend romance and mystery with a focus on ecological topics, from rewilding the Scottish Highlands (Once There Were Wolves) to following the flight of the Arctic tern (Migrations). In Wild Dark Shore, McConaghy turns her attention to a seed bank located on a remote island off the coast of Antarctica. Widower Dominic Salt and his three children—teens Raff and Fen and their younger brother, Orly—are the lone inhabitants of Shearwater Island.

  • Jul 21, 2024 | bookpage.com | Lauren Bufferd

    “Cinderella,” “Puss in Boots” and “Rumpelstiltskin” are to this day some of the first stories we hear as children—and as we learn from Clare Pollard’s witty, sexy, historical novel, The Modern Fairies, they were all the rage in the court of Louis XIV. The Modern Fairies is loosely based on a group of real-life salonaires who met at the home of Madame Marie d’Aulnoy, a woman with a troubled past that included imprisonment and a childhood marriage to a cruel aristocrat.

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Lauren Bufferd
Lauren Bufferd @LAMYB
24 Jul 23

Summer treats on Different Every Time. Today from 3:00-5:00 only on WXNA 101.5 FM and livestreaming at https://t.co/UdeF89nn0m @wxna https://t.co/eSFVFbVo01

Lauren Bufferd
Lauren Bufferd @LAMYB
17 Jul 23

Short show today. Tune in at 4:00 today for a little less of the usual on Different Every Time WXNA 101.5 fm and live streaming at https://t.co/UdeF89nn0m. @WXNA https://t.co/YeuwcwpFTC

Lauren Bufferd
Lauren Bufferd @LAMYB
10 Jul 23

Happy birthday Arlo Guthrie! Today on Different Every Time 3:00-5:00 101.5 fm and live streaming at https://t.co/UdeF89nn0m. @WXNAfm #arloguthrie https://t.co/1u47dy3zz8