Many thanks to an amazing team for the HBO adaptation of Olive Kitteridge! They did a wonderful job. Here's a terrific short video about the "making of."
Star and executive producer Frances McDormand, writer Jane Anderson, and director Lisa Cholodenko discuss how they brought the miniseries' complicated characters to life.
The HBO miniseries adaptation of Olive Kitteridge debuts Nov. 2 with Parts 1 and 2, and Parts 3 and 4 on Nov. 3.
For my Italian readers, with thanks to Festivaletteratura and Piero Dorfles.
“In generale i romanzi della Strout affiancano alla dimensione sociologica quella psicologica e privata ma anche realtà più ampie, come quella politica e sociale; per questa ragione hanno fatto breccia nel pubblico americano, soprattutto femminile, che si è sentito totalmente rispecchiato nelle numerose donne della scrittrice.”
“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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“The novel “The Burgess Boys” took the nation by storm last year. This month, the novel is available in paperback....
Elizabeth Strout visited with the Texas Standard’s Emily Donahue to talk about her book. Listen to their conversation in the audio player below.”
Novelist Elizabeth Strout talks about writing the Burgess Boys with the Texas Standard's Emily Donahue.
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