Nice to see ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE here on the Guardian's 'Not the Booker prize' shortlist.
"Not the Booker prize 2017: 'extraordinary' Elizabeth Strout joins final shortlist" Sam Jordison, The Guardian, August 14, 2017
Just The Right Book Podcast: Elizabeth Strout Knows "Anything is Possible"
One of Roxanne's favorite authors, Elizabeth Strout joins Just the Right Book Podcast to talk about her latest novel, Anything is Possible. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author also gives us the scoop on the Emmy Award-winning HBO series, Olive Kitteridge (based on Strout's book of the same name) and shares her thoughts on Frances McDormand as the title character.
Ep 36: Elizabeth Strout Knows "Anything is Possible"
Just The Right Book Podcast
July 26, 2017Politics & Prose: Elizabeth Strout with NPR arts correspondent Lynn Neary
A 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.
http://www.politics-prose.com/book/9780812989403
Elizabeth Strout, "Anything Is Possible"
Politics & Prose, Washington, D.C.
May 9, 2017The Atlantic: When Memories Are True Even When They’re Not
The 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
New Yorker Profile: Elizabeth Strout’s Long Homecoming
“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