MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON has been adapted for the stage in a British production starring Laura Linney. Perfect!
"Laura Linney to make London stage debut in My Name is Lucy Barton" Mark Brown, The Guardian, January 24, 2018
The Atlantic: When Memories Are True Even When They’re Not
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Elizabeth Strout discusses Louise Glück’s poem “Nostos” and the powerful way literature can harbor recollection.
“Glück seems to be saying that childhood is the only constant, immutable thing, while everything that comes after that—“the rest,” she says, our whole adult life—occurs in the shifty arena of memory. Our whole present tense takes place in the shadows of the original, pure impressions of childhood. ”
"By Heart: When Memories Are True Even When They’re Not" Joe Fassler, The Atlantic, May 2, 2017
An Exclusive Waterstones Q & A with Elizabeth Strout
“[M]emory is so unstable. We think we remember things, but do we really? And yet even if the memory is not true, it came from somewhere in the character and that is interesting to me.”
Sally Campbell & Martha Greengrass, "An Exclusive Waterstones Q & A with Elizabeth Strout"
Waterstones Blog, March 3, 2017
Malaparte Prize 2016
The Malaparte Prize is an Italian literary award recognizing the work of internationally renowned writers who express in their work and lives an aesthetic sensibility allied with the spirit and role of the island of Capri as a center of literary dialogue.
Very honored to be the recipient of the 2016 Malaparte Prize for My Name is Lucy Barton, with thanks to my Italian publisher Einaudi and to president of the jury, Raffaele la Capria.
My Name is Lucy Barton Longlisted for the 2017 Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
The Andrew Carnegie Medals are the first single-book awards for adult titles given by the American Library Association, and reflect the expert judgment and insight of library professionals who work closely with adult readers.
Honored that My Name is Lucy Barton has been longlisted for the Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction.