MashableReads

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And Mathilde watched her husband’s reborn twinkle dwindle again. It felt like a slow death of debridement, tiny constant bleeds.

Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies (via theagonistes)

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There are thousands of writers vying for the golden ticket of publication, readership and serious attention. What part of the process might they not expect?

“I think it’s good to remember that publication and attention, while evidence of luck and (usually) hard work, are only fleeting moments of joy. The day after publication, when you wash the glitter and champagne off in the shower, you still step out the very you that you were before you were published, with all of your flaws and fears. I’m so happy to have been published well, but I’m now aware, after four books, that publishing can’t fix the parts of me that are broken or bruised and that it’s useless to put faith in them to do so. The true joy is in the writing. Whatever you can do to feel that joy and wonder when you look at the page will allow you to go on.”

Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies, interviewed by Michelle Hoover

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“This peaceful sleep of being born male and rich and white and American at this prosperous time, when the wars that were happening were far from home. This boy, told from the first moment he was born that he could do what he wanted. All he needed was to try. Mess up over and over, and everyone would wait until he got it right.”

–Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

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Story telling is a landscape, and tragedy is comedy is drama. It simply depends on how you frame what you’re seeing.

Denton Thrasher - from Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (via tildastuff)

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Jonathan Lee speaks with Lauren Groff about Fates and Furies (a National Book Award finalist), writing about marriage, and how to not write terrible sex scenes. (via VICE)

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Mathilde had always been a fist, in truth. Only with Lotto had she been an open hand.

Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies (the line that got me.)

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FACT: Holding a book increases chances of swiping right by 4560%

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Lauren Groff – Fates & Furies

Author of the story collection Delicate Edible Birds and two best-selling novels, Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, Groff has already won the Paul Bowles Prize for Fiction, the Medici Book Club Prize, the PEN/O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. She’s been shortlisted for the Orange Prize and her work has been included in several Best American Short Stories collections. Her third novel is a rich and multilayered look at marriage. A golden couple in every way, Lotto and Mathilde team up at age twenty-two; twenty-four years later, their union is more solid than ever. But where friends and colleagues see obvious affection and a mutually creative partnership, the couple’s strongest foundation rests on secrets.

Groff discusses Fates and Furies with Lynn Neary, an NPR arts correspondent and a frequent guest host often heard on @npr‘s Morning Edition and Weekend Edition.

This event was recorded September 21, 2015, at Busboys and Poets 14th & V as part of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation Contemporary Fiction Reading Series.

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Lauren Groff at Busboys and Poets ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Last week’s top ten bestselling fiction books at The Hickory Stick Bookshop. By them all here.

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Great books are so photogenic. 

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Let’s expand our horizons. Read on.

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rainbow rowell’s girls

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OMG

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“Is this book for boys or girls?”

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All of us in marriages, I think, no matter how good or how sturdy our marriages are, understand that marriage is a mutually agreed upon narrative—the marriage is sustained by joint stories about how we fell in love and the things that have happened to test or fortify the marriage. Maintaining some or all of these stories with a spouse fuels the conditions that make a marriage fruitful, productive. A sudden surprise revelation—one that violates the essence of a marriage story—could bring down the relationship like a house of cards.

Anita Felicelli reviews Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff. (via therumpus)