791. Elizabeth Strout

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novel Lucy by the Sea, available from Random House. Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Oh William!; Olive, Again; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name Is Lucy Barton; The Burgess Boys; Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in London. She lives in Maine. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Etc. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch @otherppl Instagram YouTube Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, where is this, Brad Listy?
0:03.0	I love you.
0:04.0	I love you.
0:05.0	I'd be totally out.
0:06.0	Hey everybody.
0:07.0	How you doing?
0:08.0	This is Brad Listy.
0:09.0	This is The Other People Show.
0:11.0	I am here in Los Angeles, and it is good to be with you.
0:15.0	Thanks for listening.
0:16.0	Today on the program, my guest is Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout,
0:21.3	author of the new novel, Lucy by the Sea.
0:26.1	You know, after I won the Pulitzer Prize, I was frightened because I thought now people will look at what I'm going to write.
0:36.8	But then very shortly, I realized, no, I've always
0:40.9	held myself to the highest standard, you know, that reader presence that I have in front of me.
0:45.9	I've always held myself to the highest standard that I can. I'm just as much of a perfectionist
0:51.6	as I can be to try and get it right.
0:58.2	And so that won't change, whether it's one reader or a hundred readers.
1:01.0	I understood, because I was older too.
1:06.6	I wasn't, you know, thrown by it, I think, in the way that I might have been if I was younger.
1:08.6	All right.
1:15.4	That was Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the new novel Lucy by the Sea.
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