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“... institute, and before that a railway-and-turpentine camp glued to a pine swamp in Florida,’ as Lauren Groff and I (separately) have done, perhaps a dozen years ago in her case, more than two dozen now in mine. For love and family in her case; in mine, improbably and occasionally grimly, for work. It took me a while to get used to G, as I’d like ...”

“... Territory of Light in 2018, her work has been seen as prefiguring contemporary autofiction. Yet as Lauren Groff writes in her introduction to the new edition of Woman Running in the Mountains, it’s a mistake to insist on too biographical a reading of Tsushima’s work. (Her later novels depart more obviously from her personal experience: their settings ...”

“... word to describe herself. She keeps running, she forgets. This scene comes about halfway through Lauren Groff’s fifth novel, The Vaster Wilds, the bones of which are so simple – even stark – that you would think it couldn’t possibly work. One character, one action: a girl running through the woods. But that austere frame is full of meaning ...”

“... ran two reviews, an astute hatchet job by Parul Sehgal and a hand-wringing rave by the novelist Lauren Groff, who said she’d felt chilled ‘to the marrow’ but doubted her own qualifications, as a white woman, to review the book. (In a quote from an earlier draft, mistakenly tweeted from a Times account, ...”