The Charitable Round Table: An Evening With Lauren Groff
The Literary Affairs Medici Foundation presents:
The Charitable Round Table
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
A special intimate evening with Lauren Groff and Julie Robinson.
You are invited to a professional cooking demonstration and private book club discussion led by the Founder of Literary Affairs, Julie Robinson. We will discuss The Vaster Wilds with Lauren Groff and enjoy a lovely dinner and wine tasting.
The Charitable Round Table profits will benefit The Lynx Watch, Inc a non-profit which works to distribute challenged and banned books widely in Florida. We will also be donating to The Council of the Library Foundation in Los Angeles to continue to support critical library programs in our Central Library along with our 72 branches throughout the city.
EVENT INFORMATION
Tuesday, September 17th
6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Violet Bistro
1121 Glendon Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024
This is an exclusive space limited event to maintain intimacy.
If you are interested in making a donation and attending, please contact us at: info@LiteraryAffairs.net.
Photo Credit: The Algonquin Round Table by Natalie Ascencious
ABOUT LAUREN GROFF
Lauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and The New York Times–bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates 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 Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. Her work has been translated into thirty-six languages. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.
Her novels including The Vaster Wilds were selected by Barack Obama as his favorite books of the year and she was recently named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2024.
Ann Patchett said that Lauren Groff is more than a great writer, she’s also a great citizen, channeling her belief that everyone should be free to read the books they choose into The Lynx, her new bookstore in Gainesville, Fla.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her.
Lauren Groff’s new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a new way of living in a world succumbing to the churn of colonialism. The Vaster Wilds is a work of raw and prophetic power that tells the story of America in miniature, through one girl at a hinge point in history, to ask how—and if—we can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves.
ABOUT THE LYNX AND THE LYNX WATCH, INC.
The Lynx is a new general-interest bookstore in Gainesville, Florida with an emphasis in books that are currently challenged or banned in Florida, as well as those by BIPOC authors, LGBTQ+ authors, and Florida authors. The Lynx Watch, Inc., is a non-profit that works to distribute challenged and banned books widely in Florida.
ABOUT THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES
The Library Foundation of Los Angeles provides critical support to the Los Angeles Public Library resulting in free programs, resources, and services available to the millions of adults, children, and youth in Los Angeles. Through fundraising, advocacy, and innovative programs, the Library Foundation strengthens the Los Angeles Public Library and promotes greater awareness of its valuable resources.
For more information on the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, please visit their web site at https://lfla.org/