What comes next is going to be super spoiler-y. If that kind of thing pisses you off. Stop now. When I read that Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies was nominated for a National Book Award,…
Posts tagged Lauren Groff
You can have your furies
Funny story: Sometime in mid-December I published a list of the Top 5 books I’d read in the past year, which felt like a lie because I was up to my neck in Lauren Groff’s…
Tales from the Commune
There were times in the midst of reading Arcadia by Lauren Groff where I thought to myself, “I would totally love to live in a commune.” But then I would close the cover of the…
The 10 Best Books I Read in 2008
1. An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken:This was the best book I read all year. No hemming, no hawing, no second guessing — the best. McCracken’s memoir about giving…
Book Links: Flannery O’Connor reads
Yowza! Largehearted Boy found a site that’s made a Flannery O’Connor lecture and reading available. Now, you can listen to O’Connor read A Good Man is Hard to Find. I am downloading it now, and…