Ten Quick Questions with… Elizabeth Strout

1. Your desert-island read:
It was not publication that ever made me feel like a writer. Publication only made other people think I was a writer. I always knew.
–conducted by Joshua Garstka
1. Your desert-island read:
It was not publication that ever made me feel like a writer. Publication only made other people think I was a writer. I always knew.
–conducted by Joshua Garstka
If you have, at any point this year, had a conversation about the number of women in publishing–the number of female-authored books reviewed in newspapers, say–you’ve had that conversation (likely) because of some numbers which were researched and published by VIDA, an organization devoted to women in literary arts. The author of two shockingly,…
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