Presented by Pulitzer-prize-winning novelist and screenwriter, Richard Russo
This black-tie-optional event is the Associates annual opportunity to honor outstanding writers from the Northeast and to celebrate their contributions to literature, while raising vital funds to support the preservation of the Boston Public Library's Special Collections.
In conversation with Meg Wolitzer reading performed by Patricia Kalember
NOTE: SEATS NOW AVAILABLE*
Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout returns to Symphony Space to celebrate her latest novel. Twining her most iconic characters together into one narrative for the first time, Tell Me Everything brims with Strout's signature radical empathy and illuminates the power of connection through storytelling.
Liz will be in conversation with Meg Wolitzer (The Female Persuasion). A reading from the novel will be performed by Patricia Kalember (Power).
Evening’s Moderator: Lara Prescott, bestselling author of The Secrets We Kept
With her “extraordinary capacity for radical empathy” (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst; fall in love and yet choose to be apart; and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it: “What does anyone’s life mean?”
We’re honored to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout to celebrate the recent release of her tenth novel, Tell Me Everything, a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.
Joining Elizabeth will be Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of five novels, including Writers & Lovers, which was a NYT notable book and named by the Washington Post, People, and the LA Times as one of the best books of the year (2020).
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout’s Tell Me Everything is a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.
With her “extraordinary capacity for radical empathy” (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst; fall in love and yet choose to be apart; and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?” Brimming with compassion and pathos, Strout illuminates the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, “Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.”
