Lauren Groff

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.

Nov 29, 2024 | standaard.be | Lauren Groff

Lauren Groff over het boek waar ze te jong voor was, de blikseminslag die Emily Dickinson bij haar teweegbracht en een late verliefdheid op het werk van Vasili Grossman. Ik kon al vroeg lezen omdat ik ontzettend verlegen was en boeken enigszins het ongemak van mijn bestaan als gevoelig persoonverlichtten.