"Ordinary life is something to be honored." Thanks to Anthony Brooks and Radio Boston for the nice interview!
NYT: Frances McDormand, True to Herself in HBO’s ‘Olive Kitteridge’
McDormand's Olive is beautiful and has taken on a life of her own.
“She gave her Olive a recurring quirk that Ms. Strout’s version didn’t have and that caught the writer by surprise when she watched a scene in which Olive ambled reluctantly to her son’s wedding.”
Featurette on HBO's Olive Kitteridge
Many thanks to an amazing team for the HBO adaptation of Olive Kitteridge! They did a wonderful job. Here's a terrific short video about the "making of."
Star and executive producer Frances McDormand, writer Jane Anderson, and director Lisa Cholodenko discuss how they brought the miniseries' complicated characters to life.
HBO Adaptation of Olive Kitteridge
The HBO miniseries adaptation of Olive Kitteridge debuts Nov. 2 with Parts 1 and 2, and Parts 3 and 4 on Nov. 3.
NBCC Reads: Lizzie Skurnick Picks Elizabeth Strout
“In literature, the unreliable narrator gets all of the attention—though far more interesting a creation is the truly unlikable narrator, to say nothing of one the reader still identifies and empathizes with, deeply. Such an animal is Olive Kitteridge, the heroine of Strout’s eponymous follow-up to her justly praised Amy & Isabelle. ”