Vox’s Constance Grady talks with novelist Lauren Groff about her latest book, the National Book Award finalist Matrix, before a virtual audience for the Vox Book Club. They discuss the enigmatic historical figure at the center of the novel, the politics of women-led power structures, and the pros and cons of writing a good sex scene.
Host: Constance Grady (@constancegrady), staff writer, Vox
Guests: Lauren Groff (@legroff), author
References:
- Matrix by Lauren Groff (2021; Riverhead)
- “In Lauren Groff’s Matrix, medieval nuns build a feminist utopia” by Constance Grady (Oct. 15, 2021; Vox)
- Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (2016; Riverhead)
- The Lays of Marie de France (tr. Eugene Mason)
- Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman (2019; Norton)
- Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore (2014; Vintage)
- Arcadia by Lauren Groff (2012; Voice)
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- Producer: Erikk Geannikis
- Editor: Amy Drozdowska
- Engineer: Paul Robert Mounsey
- Deputy Editorial Director, Vox Talk: Amber Hall
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