Elizabeth Strout

Slow Sell, or, Why Professors Matter

Amy Hungerford | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

Read More: University, Literature, Book Marketing, Professors, Textbooks, Yale University, Jonathan Lethem, David Mitchell, Reading, Elizabeth Strout, Motherless Brooklyn, Black Swan Green, Books News

The slow sell can't be done pre-publication. It requires -- wait for it -- reading. My last week's reading is a case in point: I read David Mitchell's Black Swan Green.

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Women Gather to Celebrate Reading in Nashville, Tennessee

Holly Goddard Jones | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Writers, Nashville, The Help, Kathryn Stockett, Writers Panel, Southern Festival of Books, Authors, Reading Groups, Books, Elizabeth Strout, National Reading Group Month, New Authors, Women's National Book Association, Books News

I'm a southern Kentucky native -- grew up just a few miles away from the Tennessee state line, turned to Nashville in my growing up as the nearest "real" city -- and yet this weekend's Southern Festival of Books was my very first.

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Big News: Women Can Write!

The Huffington Post | Erica Jong | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Women's Rights, Olive Kitteridge, Writers, Books, Herta Mueller, Female Writers, Wolf Hall, Fiction Prizes, Gender, Authors, Gender Equality, Sexism, Hilary Mantel, Women Writers, Elizabeth Strout, Marilynne Robinson, Literature Prizes, Books News

We have known that women could write since Sappho invented love poetry 2600 years ago. Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, George Eliot co...

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Women Sweep Literature Prizes

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Literature Prizes, Nobel Prize, Books, Orange Prize, Herta Muller, Hilary Mantel, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, Booker Prize, Fiction Prizes, Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize, LA Times, Housekeeping, Literature Awards, Literary Prizes, Books News

Is it an accident, the judging panels, a mini-trend or are the tides turning? With the sweep of this year's literary awards, all eyes are on the women...