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Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done. I think it's really beautiful. Jesus, what I struggle, you know? It was incredible. You know, it's like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person at just one time. Right. All right, everybody. Here we go again. This is it. This is other people.

This is me talking to you. This is you listening to me talk to you. This is the cranial entanglement. My guest today is Lauren Groff. She's a very talented young writer who's had an amazing start to her career. Her debut novel, The Monsters of Templeton, was a big bestseller and was critically acclaimed. Stephen King wrote about it gushingly.

Her second book was a story collection

hailed in similar fashion. a big bestseller and was critically acclaimed. Stephen King wrote about it gushingly.

Her second book was a story collection hailed in similar fashion.

It's called Delicate Edible Birds.

And now she is publishing her latest novel, which is called Arcadia.

It's available from Hyperion.

And it's already gotten starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Kirkus,

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