Readings

Booker Prize Shortlist: Profile, Readers Guide, Extracts, Readings

No-one writes interior life as Strout does. This is meticulous observed writing, full of probing psychological insight. Lucy Barton is one of literature’s immortal characters – brittle, damaged, unravelling, vulnerable and most of all, ordinary, like us all.
— The Booker Prize 2022 judges on Oh William!

Profile and collection of features including written interviews, an article on the Lucy Barton series, a Reading Guide (for bookclubs and individual readers), a video Q&A with readers, and two short videos featuring Anna Friel reading extracts from Oh William!

Elizabeth Strout,” Authors, the Booker Prize Library, The Booker Prizes website, September 6, 2022.

The New Yorker Fiction Podcast: Reading William Trevor's "Bravado"

I was invited to select a story from The New Yorker’s archive to read for their Fiction Podcast. I selected “Bravado,” by William Trevor, which appeared in a 2007 issue of the magazine. Fiction Editor Deborah Treisman and I then had a lovely conversation about it and what I love about William Trevor’s writing.

With Deborah Treisman, “Elizabeth Strout Reads William Trevor,” The New Yorker Fiction Podcast, November 1, 2020.