Ep 762 - Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
About this episode
The episode discusses Elizabeth Strout's 'Olive Kitteridge', exploring its narrative structure and character depth.
Is it a novel? A collection of stories? A story cycle? A monograph?? It doesn't matter. This one's an award-winner. Strout's a masterful episodic storyteller, diving quickly into the deep end with characters we've met just pages before. However, the titular Olive looms much larger than the others we meet, compelling us to wonder if the collectionovelcyclegraph isn't a bit uneven. Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis . Follow @overduepod on Instagram and Bluesky Advertise on Overdue See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
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Host: Overdue
Topics covered
- Olive Kitteridge
- storytelling
- character analysis
- literary forms
- award-winning literature
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Organizations: Nick Lerangis
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