Encore - Lauren Groff

This program originally aired in 2022. Lauren Groff is a two-time National Book Award finalist and the author of four novels and two collections of short stories. Her 2022 novel, Matrix, imagines the life of Marie du France, a medieval writer who became France’s first woman poet. On April 12, 2022, Lauren Groff came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco to talk about Matrix with Isabel Duffy. The two also discussed the utterly unique way in which Groff writes her novels. After copious research, she writes a complete first draft, tosses that away without reviewing it, writes a new draft, and repeats the process again.

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Encore - Lauren Groff is an episode from City Arts & Lectures by City Arts & Lectures .

This episode is 59:30 long.

This episode was published on Apr 5, 2026.

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