Honored that Lucy by the Sea has been shortlisted for this year's Rathbones Folio Prize for fiction! Congratulations to the nominees in all three categories.
How To Own The Room Podcast
“How can you overcome stage fright? Viv Groskop talks to award-winning writer and nominee for this year’s Booker Prize, Elizabeth Strout, ahead of the ceremony.… Elizabeth tells Viv how the spaces that allow her to write are the ones in which she’s not needed by anyone. Riding the subway is good, but even better is her studio in Maine. ”
Viv Groskop, “Elizabeth Strout, Writer,” How to Own the Room (podcast), October 14, 2022.
The Booker Prize: Elizabeth Strout answers readers' questions about 'Oh William!'
The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
The Guardian: Interview: There’s a quiet rumbling of violence in America.
“Strout describes her writing style as that of “an embroiderer” – “I will pick it up and embroider a little green line, and come back later and embroider a leaf or something” – and her novels, intricately and painstakingly crafted, overlap and intertwine to create an instantly recognisable fictional landscape.”
Lisa Allardice, “Interview: Elizabeth Strout: ‘There’s a quiet rumbling of violence in America. Is it going to expand and explode?,’” Books, The Guardian, September 24, 2022.WaPo: Elizabeth Strout has ‘millions of stories to tell’
“To Strout, writing is an act of revelation. And she is always writing, often in her studio above a nearby store. She’s amazed that Lucy returned for a fourth novel, but here she is.”
Karen Heller, “Elizabeth Strout has ‘millions of stories to tell’,” Book World, Washington Post, September 22, 2022.