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.
With my editor Susan Kamil, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Random House, after a Q&A at the Random House OpenHouse. Wonderful conversation and to meet some of my readers! #RHopenhouse
“Much of Roger Rosenblatt and Elizabeth Strout’s Wednesday morning lecture conversation in the Amphitheater centered around being true to a setting when writing fiction.
“It took me a while to understand the importance of place, actually,” Strout said. “I had to live in New York for many years before I realized, ‘Oh, I actually really do come from Maine.’ ”
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