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Lauren Groff

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One of the Best First Sentences in Modern Literature

May 10, 2026

In Search of an 11th-Century Novelist in Kyoto

August 22, 2025

A photograph of the woods in Kyoto

When a Friendship Changes Forever

October 7, 2024

A bar at night, with an illuminated pink sign in the center and folded-up tables along its windows

Lauren Groff Has Written a New Gospel

Judith Shulevitz

September 12, 2023

Trees in a forest

Literature Isn’t Bound by the Rules of Time

March 18, 2022

A clock whose hour and minute hands are the spine of a book; the second hand is a page in the book.

The Writer Who Saw All of This Coming

September 7, 2021

A split black-and-white image of text from a book and Lauren Groff's face, with Groff's eye superimposed in the center

Let’s All Read More Fiction

Adrienne LaFrance

January 14, 2020

Illustration of a colorful wheel of pen tips

A Conversation With Lauren Groff About Her Writing Process

January 14, 2020

The Atlantic expands publication of short stories, with launch of Fiction section

January 14, 2020