Past Event Conversation

Lauren Groff and Charlotte Wood: Silence is Golden

A special meeting of literary minds, bestselling American author Lauren Groff (The Vaster Wilds) and acclaimed Australian writer Charlotte Wood (Stone Yard Devotional) join Ailsa Piper to discuss their stories of solitude.  

Supported by ARA

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11 May 12:00
The Capitol
Access: Wheelchair
How does a writer bring colour to the silence, contemplation, pleasure and melancholy of solitude? 

In a special meeting of literary minds, Ailsa Piper invites bestselling American author Lauren Groff (Matrix, Fates and Furies) and acclaimed Australian writer Charlotte Wood (The Natural Way of Things, The Weekend) to compare notes on depicting isolated characters in their richly rendered new novels. 

Groff’s thrilling The Vaster Wilds follows a spirited girl trying to survive alone in the wilderness, while Wood’s mesmerising Stone Yard Devotional depicts a woman holed up in a small religious community hidden in the stark plains of the Monaro, NSW.  

Thank you to United States Consulate Melbourne for supporting the appearances of US authors at MWF.

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