Comments on: ‘Keep writing and don’t ever stop’: Takeaways from Elizabeth Strout’s visit to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ /news/2019/10/25/keep-writing-and-dont-ever-stop-takeaways-from-elizabeth-strouts-visit-to-bates/ Fri, 13 Dec 2019 16:03:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: John Hefti /news/2019/10/25/keep-writing-and-dont-ever-stop-takeaways-from-elizabeth-strouts-visit-to-bates/#comment-263255 Fri, 25 Oct 2019 19:56:00 +0000 /news/?p=128260#comment-263255 I discovered Ms. Strout in the New Yorker last summer, after initially dismissing the story (‘Motherless Child”) based on the title and the opening paragraph. Days later I returned to it, and was drawn in to an extent that I am not used to in a short story. Just beautiful! I look forward to reading her long fiction.

My daughter graduated from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ last May, and loved her four years there.

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