864. Lauren Groff

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Lauren Groff is the bestselling author of the novel The Vaster Wilds, available from Riverhead Books. Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies, and Matrix, and the short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won the Story Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Groff 's work regularly appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram YouTube TikTok Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.3	Hello everybody. How are you? Welcome to the program. This is the Other People's Show. I'm Brad Listy in Los Angeles. It is nice to be with you. Thank you so much for listening. I hope you're doing okay. I have a great episode for you today. Don't forget to subscribe to this show wherever you listen.
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1:24.5	My guest today is Lauren Groff, author of the novel The Vaster Wilds.
1:32.7	I have always been interested in the frontier narrative, and yet I'm always been angry about
1:39.9	the frontier narrative because it's so exclusively masculine in all of our thinking, right? You think
1:45.0	of a Western, what do you think of, but like the laconic cowboy who's emotionally constipated
1:51.2	and like murders Native Americans for lands, right? I mean, this is what we think of. So it's,
1:58.0	that is a really backward-looking form. The mere act of putting a woman
2:05.3	at the center of a frontier narrative seemed to me a way of changing it. All right, that was
2:14.0	Lauren Groff. Her new novel, The V Vaster Wilds is available from Riverhead Books.
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