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 63478372147
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. 813918
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Your grandma uses gen-AI? Mock her gently but relentlessly. Your students use it? Mock them savagely. Your favorite writer uses it? Mock her loudly and whenever she appears in public, because with the use of it, she has become a tool of the fascist oligarchs who want to kill us all. 07611
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 · 17/05/2026(Brought to you by my older son graduating from high school, we’re turning to dust over here). 0340
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. 386151683537
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. 253166743661
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... 285146754444
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. 1173081766
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Substack is an inherently pro-individual, anti-community, anti-new-writer technology and is responsible for the death of so many excellent small literary venues. 714729
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 · 30/04/2026Mine both loved Trevor Noah’s book, and Boys In The Boat, but they’re both rowers. 120
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 30/04/2026My boys never fight about anything (the elder is chill, the younger excessively sweet), but they fight about who gets to read these books first. 0150
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 11846297
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! 31590492018
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. 755981
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. 616105432383
Reposted by Lauren GroffKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work. 1824324810797
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. 97107603880
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 5401526012577
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 643272978
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. 468139823984
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 103143393329
