Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Has it ever, in the history of opinionated women, been a welcome tactic for a man she doesn’t know to come into her mentions to tell her to moderate her tone? Has this ever once worked out the way the condescending man has envisioned? 51049
Reposted by Lauren GroffAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19/05/2026what do you call it when the president steals an unfathomable amount of wealth from the treasury and then declares it illegal to investigate him 63478402148
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I’m filled with white-hot rage at Olga Tolarczuk. I’ve spent every day of three decades struggling with my art. The art lives in the struggle; the product is only the last traces of the art. If you’re not in the struggle, you’re not making art. All respect I’ve had for her has instantly vanished. 713918
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 19/05/2026“Mock mercilessly anyone using generative AI until they cry” is the new “punch a Nazi.” 29811
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I just heard Landslide TWICE in a day, I can’t take it, this is emotional terrorism, who do I sue to get it to stop. 3543
Reposted by Lauren GroffHillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Here are the facts: People have always had and will always have abortions in all 50 states. Abortion pills are safe, effective, and have been used by millions of people. No court or politician can change either of those realities. 386151693537
Reposted by Lauren GroffBOMB Magazine @bombmag.bsky.social · 14/05/2026If @legroff.bsky.social wasn’t a writer, she says she’d be a landscape architect in an interview with @rumaan.bsky.social. For the three-time National Book Award finalist, making a work of fiction malleable is much like planting a garden or shaping the land.bit.lyBOMB Magazine | Lauren Groff by Rumaan AlamThe three-time National Book Award finalist and author of the new short story collection Brawler shares deep insight into her writing process and why… 04211
Reposted by Lauren GroffMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.arstechnica.comInfluential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flagsThe retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times. 2325491388
Reposted by Lauren GroffKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10/05/2026If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum. 253166773662
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 09/05/2026The most predictable thing about my post blaming Substack for the accelerated collapse of literary media is when people who are personally benefiting from Substack swan in to angrily defend it. This is 100% my point! It’s good for some individuals, massively destructive for the culture at large. 27010
Reposted by Lauren Groff👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/05/2026sometimes Oxford is normal and sometimes members of @orieloxford.bsky.social chapel gather to serenade a new beehive on college grounds with a 17th century madrigal 461628321
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 05/05/2026If you use AI to write an email either to me or to my bookstore, we will not be reading your message. It’s getting yeeted into the swamp. If you can’t take the time to do the work yourself, why should we take the time to engage with what you want from us? 612210
Reposted by Lauren GroffMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...phys.orgBamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditionsA new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab... 287146754444
Reposted by Lauren GroffJust a Dad 📎 @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Only in America can one party control the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives, win the popular vote, and hold the majority of governorships—and still blame the other party for everything wrong with the country. 1173082767
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I blame Substack. The single worst development for the literary world in the last few decades. 827047
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 30/04/2026As both a bookseller and a parent of two teenage boys, trust me: if you want your young men to read enormous books with obsessive zeal, buy them the Dungeon Crawler Carl series (or borrow it from the library). 4537
Reposted by Lauren GroffAnn Tashi Slater @anntashislater.bsky.social · 27/04/2026I talked with acclaimed author Lauren Groff about letting go of ambition, living between regret and repair, and how swimming set her mind free. Groff's new short story collection, Brawler, is out now. @legroff.bsky.social @tricyclemag.bsky.social tricycle.org/article/on-g...tricycle.orgOn Grace, Melancholy, and Taking Over Our NarrativesAnn Tashi Slater talks with author Lauren Groff about surrendering to reality, mending broken relationships, and writing novels underwater. 0194
Reposted by Lauren GroffAndy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 27/04/2026It is my pleasure to finally announce that my colleagues and I at Hachette Book Group are unionizing! We're asking for any authors, artists, and fellow workers of the world to stand in solidarity with us, and sign our open letter of support at hachetteworkers.com/open-letter 11847298
Reposted by Lauren GroffCheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 26/04/2026The Trump fake assassination attempts will continue on a regular schedule until his poll numbers rise. Thank you for your attention to this matter! 31690522018
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Your independent bookstores put their money back into their local economies at many times the rate of the chains or tech giants. Authors would be lost without them. Support your local indie today (and every day). 217340
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I’m so fucking embarrassed to be from the United States with this insane freak in charge. 756082
Reposted by Lauren GroffMatthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026for me impeachment isn't what we should be after. this president and most of his cabinet and staff should be prosecuted for corruption, fraud, war crimes, obstruction, and all the various crimes they have committed. i will only vote for a presidential candidate in 2028 who commits to this. 616105442383
Reposted by Lauren GroffKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work. 1824326110800
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I just don’t understand why nobody is stopping him. Stop him. Stop this madman. Stop him. 1375
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Generative AI is a tool of fascism. If you use it, you better be prepared to be shamed by people who actually like thinking. 310419
Reposted by Lauren GroffMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/04/2026A very good thread about journalists and AI, much of which also applies to writers of nonfiction books. We are being told, with increasing frequency and stridency, that we "just don't get" how AI can help us, by people who are manifestly not interested in helping us. Know your enemy. Hold the line. 8579155
Reposted by Lauren GroffCameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026This is so, so well-articulated. 97107673882
Reposted by Lauren GroffJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Never buying any book by this fucking clown. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comI wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever | Stephen MarcheMastery of banal style is losing its usefulness – but language is more powerful than ever. It’s up to the writer to do what machines can’t 2135949
Reposted by Lauren GroffJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/04/2026Maaaaaaybe but LLMs hallucinate tons of shit and if you don't have domain knowledge (which is one big reason a writer might research) then you might not know what your LLM is making up. I tend to stick to primary sources whenever possible; I have a couple of decades of experience with Googling. 62107795
Reposted by Lauren GroffBabybel Bandit @greblin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it 5401526212582
Reposted by Lauren GroffShimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 29/03/2026Donald J. Trump remains President of the United States of America because Republicans find raping children less offensive than taxing billionaires. #RemoveTrump 643273978
Reposted by Lauren GroffMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/03/2026I'm updating the famous Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times" to "May you live in incompetent times" to be more relevant to those of us living in the United States right now. 468139863984
Reposted by Lauren GroffMichael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 29/03/2026I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you 103143443331
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Citizen’s arrest for anyone who shows up at the airport wearing perfume or cologne. 4391
Reposted by Lauren GroffThe Real Joyce Berry💛🐝®The Electoral College Must Go Now @jdhwriter.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Sometimes even the President of the United States must be tried for treason. 349105511851
Reposted by Lauren GroffNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 24/03/2026AI is the deadly whisper of capital interests that betrays the working class in order to destroy it from within, and it couldn't be more simple than that. 0572124
Reposted by Lauren GroffNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 24/03/2026Seeing people say AI is a tool that helps "working class people become writers" and its such bullshit. The process of learning and skill sharpening is labour, and its telling that there is work to be glamorized (being perceived as a Writer) and labour beneath people (learning to write) 51989419
Reposted by Lauren GroffSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 22/03/2026I bought a new t-shirt. www.etsy.com/listing/4371... 372494220
Reposted by Lauren GroffAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I love the slightly janky lynx with all my heart 1222313
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 06/03/2026I don’t think I’ll get over the rage I feel that we traded relative prosperity, security, scientific advancement, the possibility of upward mobility, and somewhat functional democracy for the protection of a felon child-rapist. Incandescent, unending rage. 819026
Reposted by Lauren GroffThe Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 04/03/2026The Federal Book Ban bill uses funding threats to pressure schools to remove books. Federal control over local policy - and federal control of reading, writing, and publishing - is unacceptable. Sign the petition to stop it. action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661 via @everylibrary.bsky.socialaction.everylibrary.orgPETITION: Don't Let the Federal Government Regulate Your ReadingNot one country's freedom and liberty has ever been increased by banning books. 1011776893
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 04/03/2026A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem. 1053525592
