Lauren Groff

"From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes,...

The lyrical and haunting story of a great American dream--the progress of a utopian community and its lasting impact on a gifted young man.

Groff follows up The Monsters of Templeton with this innovative and beautifully written collection that covers a wide swath of humanity, from east coast resort towns, to the early 20th century flu epidemic, to WWII Europe.

On its publication in 1919, Virginia Woolf's second book was largely dismissed as "traditional," a Victorian novel that plays like Shakespearean comedy. We follow the romantic tribulations of two friends, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet, before finally arriving at two engagements. But subtly and presciently, these dramas play out against the backdrop of the first faltering steps of the women's suffrage movement. Ultimately, Woolf's novel is a subversive...

A teenage girl in Connecticut driven to near delirium over her burgeoning sexuality. A twenty-something New Yorker transplanted to a small Virginia community who boldly befriends the town pariah. A New England widow in search of alcohol and excitement while babysitting her grandson. A Maryland socialite who has built a secret bomb shelter that becomes the center of her imaginative life. These are some of the characters who inhabit Nancy Hale’s lush...

Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories take place in such far-flung locales as a gorgeous sailboat in Hong Kong, a Cuban sugar plantation, the Kenai River in Alaska, a mansion in New Delhi, a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat, and the ghost-haunted rubble of a Turkish girls’ school. Also included are the editor’s...