What is Lake Forest Reads: Ragdale?
This program reflects a partnership between Lake Forest Library and The Ragdale Foundation. The Ragdale Foundation is an artist residency in Lake Forest which has supported emerging and best selling authors in their creative process for over 35 years.
Based on the "One City, One Book" program that over 70 communities nationwide participate in, every year a new book is chosen by an author affiliated with Ragdale for the community to read. This is intended to foster literacy, a culture of reading, and a sense of community.
An exciting feature of our program is that we actually get to have the author visit for a conversation style discussion that takes place at Lake Forest College. This year, Lauren Groff will be here for the event October 27, 2016 at 7pm, followed by a book signing with the Lake Forest Bookstore. The next morning Ragdale will host a Tea & Talk at 10:30am.
We encourage businesses, non-profit organizations, schools, and book clubs to read and discuss Fates and Furies before or during October, and also to offer related programs and activities. Books will be available for checkout at Lake Forest Library and for sale at Lake Forest Book Store. If you are interested in offering a related public program, please contact Kate Buckardt with your name, organization and phone number at kbuckardt@lakeforestlibrary.org.
Fates and Furies: A Summary
At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but with an electric thrill we understand that things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed.
Fates and Furies: Reviews
New York Times Review:"The word “ambitious” is often used as code for “overly ambitious,” a signal that an author’s execution has fallen short. No such hidden message here. Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and “Fates and Furies” is an unabashedly ambitious novel that delivers — with comedy, tragedy, well-deployed erudition and unmistakable glimmers of brilliance throughout."
Washington Post Review: "Swelling with a contrapuntal
symphony of passions, “Fates and Furies” is that daring novel that seems to
reach too high — and then somehow, miraculously, exceeds its own
ambitions."NPR Book Review: "The book is a master class in best lines; a shining, rare example of that most unforgiving and brutal writer's advice: All you have to do is write the best sentence you've ever written. Then 10,000 more of the best. Then find a way to string them together into the story of something. Which is what Groff has done here."
LA Times Review: "In "Fates and Furies," Lauren Groff has taken the struggles and pleasures of marriage and turned them into art, and in that artfulness she reminds us of the dangers and omissions that any storytelling requires."
Lauren Groff: Bio
Lauren Groff is the author of the novel The Monsters of Templeton, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers, Delicate Edible Birds, a collection of stories, and Arcadia, a New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award.
Her third novel, Fates and Furies was released in September of 2015.
Her third novel, Fates and Furies was released in September of 2015.
Her work has appeared in journals including the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Tin House,One Story, McSweeney’s, and Ploughshares, and in the anthologies 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and three editions of the Best American Short Stories. She lives in Gainesville, Florida with her husband and two sons.
Lauren Groff: Interviews LitLovers Questions
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