Oprah Daily: Elizabeth Strout’s Universe, Explained

“In Oprah’s most recent Book Club pick, Tell Me Everything, Olive … returns — and she is not alone. Throughout Strout’s work, 25 characters appear in more than one of her novels; Tell Me Everything features 23 of them. For an author renowned for her ability to capture the overlapping histories and rich particularities of each and every character, bringing so many of them together is an ecstatic gift to her readers: a literary fantasy fulfilled.”

— Oprah Daily

Charley Burlock, “Elizabeth Strout’s Universe, Explained Oprah Daily, Sep 18, 2024.

NBCC Reads: Lizzie Skurnick Picks Elizabeth Strout

“In literature, the unreliable narrator gets all of the attention—though far more interesting a creation is the truly unlikable narrator, to say nothing of one the reader still identifies and empathizes with, deeply. Such an animal is Olive Kitteridge, the heroine of Strout’s eponymous follow-up to her justly praised Amy & Isabelle. ”

— Lizzie Skurnick, Critical Mass, The blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors

Syracuse.com: 'Olive Kitteridge' author Elizabeth Strout delivers final Gifford lecture of 2010

She spoke to an enthusiastic crowd of fans of her work about her childhood, her time in Syracuse as a Syracuse University law student, why she believes fiction is important and her writing process.

'Olive Kitteridge' author Elizabeth Strout delivers final Gifford lecture of 2010
Emily Kulkus
Syracuse.com/The Post-Standard
December 22, 2010