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On the State of the (Book)World, with Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee (live in Edinburgh)

On the State of the (Book)World, with Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee (live in Edinburgh)

Update: 2024-09-25
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For this special episode, recorded live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Adam Biles was joined by novelists Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee for a wide-ranging discussion that takes the temperature (and the pulse!) of the book industry, from bookshops, to publishers, to prizes, to festivals... Enjoy!


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Lauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and The New York Times–bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of TempletonArcadiaFates and

Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster Wilds, and the celebrated short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won The Story Prize, the ABA Indies’ Choice Award, France’s Grand Prix de l’Héroïne, and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work regularly appears in The New YorkerThe Atlantic, and elsewhere. Her work has been translated into thirty-six languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.


Neel Mukherjee won the Writers Guild of Great Britain Award for best fiction in 2010 for his debut novel A Life Apart. His second novel, The Lives of Others, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Novel Award, and won the Encore Award. His novel, A State of Freedom, was a New York Times '100 Notable Books of the Year' and heralded as 'Stunning ... a marvel of a book, shocking and beautiful, and it proves that Mukherjee is one of the most original and talented authors working today' (NPR). Choice, a novel as triptych, is his latest book.


Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. His latest novel, Beasts of England, a sequel of sorts to Animal Farm, is available now. Buy a signed copy here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/beasts-of-england


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On the State of the (Book)World, with Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee (live in Edinburgh)

On the State of the (Book)World, with Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee (live in Edinburgh)