Lauren Groff

If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.

Don’t comply in advance. Fuck fascism.

Rage brought to you by multiple sources today, including a follow-up from a medical professional in which AI hallucinated both the procedure and the subsequent medication. It’s just unbearably, screamingly idiotic.

I guarantee that you are a better writer than the slop machine.

I get it, you have no respect for writers and no desire to get better at the craft. Now I have no desire to ever interact with you again.

I get so furious when people who could easily write something dumb and quick clearly use Chat GPT to toss it off. They’re just branding their foreheads with the word LAZY.

Your story about reading the story is bonkers and appropriate!

Aw! 🧡

Pretty impressive that through this entire scandal and press blitz, RFK Jr. hasn't lost focus on his life's work of shortening the life expectancy of the average American and endangering the lives of children.

I have an actual allergy to Bad Things sentences. They simply don’t appear in the work of people who are attentive to language, unless the writer is using them for a clear purpose (and with extreme rarity).

They are so funny. Our neighbors are being stuffed into unmarked vans, and they’re all like let’s vote against a term we probably can’t define instead.

There’s no satisfaction as a bookseller greater than leading a lovely young person who asked for Ayn Rand toward Carmen Maria Machado instead.

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After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne.

So ProPublica did.

Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:

www.propublica.org/article/bird...

HAPPY NOVEMBER 18th!

There are scams doing this under my name, too. I’ll never ever ever offer consultations for any price! Ever! I’m sorry! I’m too tired to consult on my own children’s school papers!

There’s another wave of author impersonators offering consultations/mentoring for a price. (I got one from “Claire Keegan” telling me I’m very promising!) I’m sure you are great, but I didn’t email to tell you how swell you are. Here’s info on book scams: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/prh-fraud/

Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

No health care, no deal.

As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.

“I saw someone coming toward me through the twilight on the road ahead, a skinny man in a glowing white shirt, and dread rushed into me.” New short fiction by Lauren Groff: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/10/mother-of-men-fiction-lauren-groff

Women should have jobs, but Ross Douthat shouldn’t.

Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?

Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?

Down with the cowardly gerontocracy.

I hope the centrists learned a hard lesson last night. No more reaching across the aisle to people who have been spitting in our faces for decades. Run young people, run socialists, run on actionable ideas that seek to make our lives better.

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

Also, I’ve lived here for 20 years, I am now from Florida.

I know

The Pentagon has failed seven audits in a row and the DoD has confirmed nearly $11 billion in fraud in just 7 years. But the concern is the poorest Americans abusing the average $342 monthly alotment. foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-...