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🗓️ 21 September 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On this month’s edition of Gabfest Reads, Political Gabfest host David Plotz talks with author Elizabeth Strout about her new book, Tell Me Everything. They discuss how Strout conceives of interconnected stories and characters across her work, including the return of beloved characters like Olive Kitteridge. They also dig into the importance of listening and the ways ordinary lives can be extraordinary.
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| 0:27.0 | Issemyake. Welcome to Gap Gaffes Reed's for September 2024. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm David Fox, one of the hosts of Slate's |
| 0:41.2 | for the workout test. is one of the hosts of the Slate's political contest. |
| 0:52.0 | Millions of people across the United States are close observers of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the MCU, which are interconnected stories of |
| 0:56.0 | super heroic and super villainous characters who are flung across the galaxy. |
| 1:01.6 | And if there's a new movie in the MCU, it sets Hearts of Flutter. the but equally passionate set of fans. And for those fans, there's the ESU, |
| 1:14.2 | the Elizabeth Stroud universe, |
| 1:15.8 | interconnected stories of extremely ordinary |
| 1:19.0 | and not really villainous regular humans |
| 1:21.8 | whose adventures such as they are, are flung across a couple |
| 1:25.7 | places in Maine, occasional side trips to New York City or Illinois. |
| 1:30.6 | For fans of the Elizabeth Strout universe, another book by Elizabeth Strout is |
| 1:35.0 | cause for an immediate visit to a local independent bookstore and extreme curiosity. |
| 1:40.0 | What is Lucy Barton up to? |
| 1:42.0 | What about the Burgess Brothers? And most of all is Olive Kittridge still alive has she |
| 1:46.3 | softened? |
| 1:47.3 | So I am so happy to be here with Elizabeth Strout to talk about tell me everything, her latest beautiful empathic, even slightly |
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