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The Bulwark Podcast
The book was mentioned as an example of Elizabeth Strout's work, which is characterized by spare prose and enthralling stories about ordinary people's lives without a heavy plot focus.
Probably right now my hero far and away is Elizabeth Strout. She wrote Olive Kitteridge that won the Pulitzer several years ago, but she just writes in a style that I'm always trying to emulate, which...
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The book was mentioned as an example of Elizabeth Strout's work, which is characterized by spare prose and enthralling stories about ordinary people's lives without a heavy plot focus.
Probably right now my hero far and away is Elizabeth Strout. She wrote Olive Kitteridge that won the Pulitzer several years ago, but she just writes in a style that I'm always trying to emulate, which is very, very spare, never saccharine or indulgent.
She just writes about people that she comes up with and their very ordinary lives and the fact that she can make them so enthralling and have her prose just kind of, just have me not being able to go to sleep at night because I can't stop thinking about it is everything I would hope to accomplish in my own writing.