“These places—like Yaddo—don’t just happen by magic. You people put your trust and your resources into those whose work may not show up for years, or may never show up. But you do it anyway. Because you know that a society must value the arts. And what you are doing here is an act of faith.”
Taobuk Award for Literary Excellence
Honored to receive the Taobuk International Award for Literary Excellence from the Annual Taobuk Taormina festival in gorgeous Taormina, Sicily.
Interview on the Bridge Theatre production of LUCY
“There’s so much that’s not said and that has to be hard! But they’re doing it. They’re doing it.”
"My Name Is Lucy Barton | Elizabeth Strout," Bridge Theatre Interview, Facebook, June 7, 2018.
The Guardian: Bridge Theatre's LUCY "beautifully nuanced"
“Elizabeth Strout’s first-person narrative, longlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2016 … fits perfectly on the stage. That’s partly because of the quality of the writing and partly because of a beautifully nuanced solo performance by Laura Linney.”
Michael Billington, "My Name Is Lucy Barton, Bridge Theatre, London — Laura Linney in an impressively pure adaptation," The Guardian, June 7, 2018. See also: Ian Shuttleworth, "My Name Is Lucy Barton, Bridge Theatre, London — Laura Linney in an impressively pure adaptation," The Financial Times, June 7, 2018.
Dublin Literary Award Shortlist: My Name is Lucy Barton
“The author tells a story both beautiful and haunting, revealed piecemeal through the memories and conversations of a mother and her adult daughter.… This is a deceptively simple novel that uses its sparseness to ensure each word and sentence are weighted to provide a taut, compelling novel.”
Lovely to find MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON on the shortlist for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award.