Honored to be back (in absentia) on The Diane Rehm Show! A discussion of Olive Kitteridge.
“Author Elizabeth Strout describes Olive as “ferocious and complicated and kindly and sometimes cruel. In essence … a little bit of each of us.” Today the book has gained renewed attention with a recent HBO miniseries adaptation, starring Frances McDormand. For this Readers’ Review: we listen back to our discussion of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Olive Kitteridge.”
"I had to just let her be Olive." Behind the scenes and stories, on the making of Olive Kitteridge.
“HBO: What inspired you to write ‘Olive Kitteridge’?
Elizabeth Strout: I wrote the first ‘Olive’ story many years ago — 15 or 16 years ago, I believe. It was the story where she steals her daughter-in-law’s shoe....”
"Ordinary life is something to be honored." Thanks to Anthony Brooks and Radio Boston for the nice interview!
McDormand's Olive is beautiful and has taken on a life of her own.
“She gave her Olive a recurring quirk that Ms. Strout’s version didn’t have and that caught the writer by surprise when she watched a scene in which Olive ambled reluctantly to her son’s wedding.”
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