Writer Lauren Groff on the Impulse to Make a Deeper Connection

Name: Writer Lauren Groff on the Impulse to Make a Deeper Connection
Uploaded: 2025
Duration: 22 min

202522 minHD★ 7.7Arts & Culture

“If we don't change the narrative of human supremacy, we're in profound trouble.” Acclaimed American novelist Lauren Groff reflects on the deeper themes that drive her literary work, exploring how fiction can restore forgotten lives to the historical narrative, challenge patriarchal storytelling traditions, and reconnect readers with the natural and metaphysical world. “When Trump was elected in 2016, my friends and I had this joke about how we wanted to just live on an island of women without any men at all.”

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