Early in Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel, the retired teacher Olive Kitteridge reads all of the memoirs by Lucy Barton, a New York City writer who arrived in her coastal ...

Oprah Winfrey 's latest book club pick will be a story of ... Strout is best known for the million-selling “Olive Kitteridge,” a series of interrelated stories that won the Pulitzer Prize ...

If Strout was once a master at portraying quiet lives in a big way, she now relies on easy plays for emotional connection and tidy resolution.