Ep 36: Elizabeth Strout Knows "Anything is Possible"
Just The Right Book Podcast
July 26, 2017A companion volume to My Name is Lucy Barton, Strout's sixth novel unfolds in Lucy's home town and brings to life some of the many characters Lucy and her mother talked about during Lucy's recovery.
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Elizabeth Strout, "Anything Is Possible"
Politics & Prose, Washington, D.C.
May 9, 2017The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Elizabeth Strout discusses Louise Glück’s poem “Nostos” and the powerful way literature can harbor recollection.
“Glück seems to be saying that childhood is the only constant, immutable thing, while everything that comes after that—“the rest,” she says, our whole adult life—occurs in the shifty arena of memory. Our whole present tense takes place in the shadows of the original, pure impressions of childhood. ”
"By Heart: When Memories Are True Even When They’re Not" Joe Fassler, The Atlantic, May 2, 2017
“Strout has an aesthetic as spare as the white Congregational church, where her father’s funeral was held. The dramatic turns are understated — tone on tone — but the characters are nearly bursting with feeling. One of the central agonies of their lives tends to be an inability to communicate their internal state. It’s as if they needed Strout as an interlocutor.”
"Elizabeth Strout’s Long Homecoming" Ariel Levy, The New Yorker, April 24, 2017
“Omission is where you find what makes a writer a writer; it is in the silences where forgiveness and wisdom grow, and it is where Strout’s art flourishes. This new book pushes that endeavor even further.”
"‘Anything Is Possible’ demonstrates what Elizabeth Strout does best" Susan Scarf Merrell, Washington Post, April 24, 2017
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