#lauren groff

[quotespile]

How disappointing, when people succumb to what is expected of them.

Lauren Groff, Arcadia

#literature #quotes #Lauren Groff #Arcadia #quote #books #lit

[macrolit]

Grief is pain internalized, abscess of the soul. Anger is pain as energy, sudden explosion.

Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

#lauren groff #fates and furies #grief #anger #pain #soul #quotes #quote

[novlr]

“In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.” ― Lauren Groff

#writers #creative writing #writing #writing community #writers of tumblr #creative writers #writing inspiration #writing tips #on writing #writers corner #lauren groff #writing quote #quotes about writing #inspirational quotes #inspiring quotes #creative inspiration #writers community #writers life #writing advice #writer tips

[nobeerreviews]

Poetry is what he turns to these days, finding in its fragmentation the proper echo of the disintegrating world.

-- Lauren Groff

(Vatra Dornei, Romania)

#decay #poetry #world #lauren groff #travel photography #disintegration #vatra dornei #fragmentation #romania #quote

[aseaofquotes]

Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

#Lauren Groff #Fates and Furies #past #wounds

[brokehorrorfan]

A24 has released The Lighthouse screenplay book for $60. It’s the 11th installment in the studio’s series of 8x11 hardcover editions. An e-book version is also available for $20.

In addition to Robert & Max Eggers' original script, the 216-page tome includes an introduction by actor Willem Dafoe, essays by authors Lauren Groff (Fates and Furies) and Ian McGuire (The North Water), full-page stills, and excerpts from a 1881 lighthouse keeper’s guide.

#the lighthouse #robert eggers #willem dafoe #robert pattinson #a24 #horror #book #gift #max eggers #lauren groff #ian mcguire #the witch #valeriia karaman #Jarin Blaschke

[virgin-martyr]

Ritual creates its own catharsis... Mystical acts create mystical beliefs.

Lauren Groff, excerpt from Matrix

#Lauren Groff #Matrix #favorite

[litsnaps]

#literature #quotes #Lauren Groff #Fates and Furies #quote #lit #books #words

[sweetfishes]

the second vision

#鮎 #matrix #lauren groff #illustration

[neoyorzapoteca]

(...) if you’re working in the arts, you have to build a second self. And the second self is the one that is okay with the criticism. There’s the artist, who is as vulnerable as a slug. And you have to keep the artist that vulnerable in order to make the art. And then there is the person who’s public facing, and that person is very different. That person has to be tough, tough, tough.

Lauren Groff on her novel ‘Matrix’ - OPB

#lauren groff

[writeradamanteve]

A lesson in answering THAT question.

#lauren groff #novelist

[quotespile]

When I was small and easily wounded, books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book, they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight; the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home.

Lauren Groff, The Monsters of Templeton

#literature #quotes #Lauren Groff #The Monsters of Templeton #quote #books #lit

[heavenlyyshecomes]

[…] she wrote of physical anguish and ecstasy, of troublesome dreams and shimmering, transfiguring light.

—Lauren Groff, introduction to ‘Woman Running in The Mountains’ by Yuko Tsushima, tr. Geraldine Harcourt

#which is why she's one of my favourite writers 😌 #lauren groff #yuko tsushima #geraldine harcourt #woman running in the mountains #2023 reads #words #luminous #mine

[whilereadingandwalking]

In the grand tradition of stories of man against nature, of survivor railing against the elements, comes this new book by Lauren Groff in which a servant girl flees a famine-drenched Jamestown to try to get to an imagined northern settlement. She strikes out into the American wilderness, fleeing shadows and discovering wonders of nature that she couldn't have imagined. In The Vaster Wilds, this woman discovers just how much strength is in her bones.

It's somehow bold and refreshing simply to read a story like this with a woman at its center. She knows basically nothing of nature, knows only the basic instincts of finding shelter and making fire and trying anything that looks edible and hoping for the best. She has been wronged and haunted in her life, over and over, and fleeing those demons and trying to find a salvation from the God she believes in powers her through unbelievable obstacles. It's a grand novel told in an incredibly zoomed-in way, through her own, isolated story, her internal quest, her battered body, that somehow covers the presence (or non-presence) of God, the imperialist future, the glory of America before it was "tamed."

It's a bold novel from Groff, but her excellent writing pulls it off. It was hard to put down. I wanted her to survive, I wanted her to be free, I wanted her to make it to a place I didn't think she'd ever reach. Her complex backstory and fierce disappointed loves over her young life mix with the wonder of hailstorm, bear, and forest to make a reflective, powerful book.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Lauren Groff's newest is out on September 12.

Content warnings for violence, body horror, rape, animal death, racism, cannibalism, ableism.

#the vaster wilds #lauren groff #fates and furies #bookworm #new books #good books #my book reviews

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

"The Midnight Zone" is available to read here

#short stories #short story #the midnight zone #lauren groff #american literature #english language literature #21st century literature #have you read this short fiction? #book polls #completed polls

[liesmyth]

This reminds me... Lesbian Nun Enjoyers in my area: please read Matrix by Lauren Groff!

It’s a historical novel about Marie of France, a lady at the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine sent to England to become abbess of an impoverished abbey, and it’s just such a lovely little book. The writing is beautiful, delicate, and incredibly evocative, and just reading it feels like an intimate experience. It does some Very Interesting things with lesbian sexuality and religious ecstasy; plus I’m personally very fond of that one chapter where Marie decides, fuck men’s authority, she is going to say Mass and confess her sisters if she has to.

I read it nearly a year ago and still think about it all the time. It’s a story about the slow passing of the years in an abbey that becomes a refuge from the world, and it’s so easy to get swept up and feel immersed in the daily goings of the sisters and the peaceful bustle of Marie’s life. This is both #cloistercore and #cottagecore, truly delicious and also pretty gay

#book talk #book rec #lauren groff #book: matrix #cottagecore #TO ME!