
Lauren Groff joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Faithful,” by Elizabeth Hardwick, which was published in The New Yorker in 1979. Groff’s works of fiction include the novels “ Fates and Furies ” and “ Matrix,” both of which were finalists for the National Book Award, and “ The Vaster Wilds,” which was published in 2023. A new story collection, “ Brawler,” will come out in February of 2026. In 2024, she opened the bookstore The Lynx, in Gainesville, Florida.