Lauren Groff

1 month ago | bookbrowse.com | Lauren Groff |Cathryn Conroy

Summary | Reviews | More Information | More Books Reviews Media Reviews Reader Reviews Page 1 of 5 There are currently 34 reader reviews for Arcadia Write your own review! Cathryn Conroy Extraordinary Writing! Richly Imagined Novel Takes You to a '60s Utopian Commune and Beyond This is a richly imagined novel that transports readers to a utopian commune in New York State in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s…until eventually, it becomes a disintegrating, dying, and problem-filled commune. What makes...

Jan 7, 2025 | lithub.com | Lauren Groff |Virginia Woolf

From a New Introduction to Virginia Woolf's Classic, Oft-Misunderstood Essay Of all the eidolons that Virginia Woolf conjured up off the page and into the world, perhaps her most insistent is that of Shakespeare’s sister.

Dec 11, 2024 | taustralia.com.au | Lauren Groff |Victoria Pearson |Victoria Pearson

O winged Lady,Like a birdYou scavenge the land. Like a charging stormYou charge,Like a roaring stormYou roar,You thunder in thunder,Snort in rampaging winds. Your feet are continually restless. Carrying your harp of sighs,You breathe out the music of mourning. — from “Hymn to Inanna” by Enheduanna, translated from the Sumerian by Jane HirshfieldProphetessOne risks angering the gods if one visits an oracle empty-handed.

Dec 7, 2024 | newyorker.com | Lauren Groff

They had lived together for twenty-five years in the old stone house on a bend in the river. They were young when they first saw the place, wildly in love, and so poor they could afford only one of two dwellings in the valley: a battered trailer huddled against the cold wind, and the antique house in foreclosure, a breath from letting the weeds muscle it back into the earth. Willie had wanted the trailer; when you flicked on the lights there, no shower of sparks fell from knob-and-tube wiring.

Dec 6, 2024 | mcnallyrobinson.com | Lorrie Moore |Lauren Groff

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Hardcover $34.00Reader Reward Price: $30.60 Fiction / LiteraryFiction / GhostFiction / Humorous / Black Humor"Get ready to expand your sense of what Lorrie Moore--and a novel--can do." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post, on A Gate at the StairsFrom "one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation" (Caryn James, )--a daring novel, her first in more than a decade, about love and death and what lies between and after.