Elizabeth Strout

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April 30, 2009

Blunt Flawed and Fascinating Olive wins Strout the Pulitzer

Belated congratulations to Elizabeth Strout, our guest on Episode 4 of Titlepage.tv. Strout, won for her book Olive Ketteridge, a short story collection set in small-town Maine.

According to The Guardian, judges for the $10,000 prize, awarded to a work of distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, said that Strout's work "packs a cumulative emotional wallop, bound together by polished prose and by Olive, the title character, blunt, flawed and fascinating".

For another side of Strout, listen to her shy admition of a deep love for poetry while Dan talks to poet Edward Hirsh, "I read a lot of potery. I've always thought very highly of poets and poetry. Always. Really ... I have not written it, I just love it. I just read it". To watch the exchange and listen to Strout discuss her prize-winning book, click on Inside Out.

 

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January 26, 2009

Book Critics Finalists

The National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced Saturday, and we're thrilled that two books, whose authors were invited to appear on Titlepage.tv, made the fiction list. Congratulations to Aleksandar Hemon for "The Lazarus Project" and Elizabeth Strout for "Olive Kitteridge"!

Click here for complete list of the 2008 finalists.

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January 16, 2009

You Could Have Discovered Them Here First

With only one season and six episodes in the 'can' Titlepage.tv demonstrated an impressive track record of snagging authors whose books landed, some multiple times, on 2008's Best of lists.

Starting with Publishers Weekly's list, there is Richard Price who appeared in our debut episode, All Over the Map, as well as Aleksandar Hemon and Nam Le who both appeared in Episode 5, Found in Translation. A fourth book that made that list, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle was one of the books recommended by our host, Daniel Maneker.

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