Please join MWPA and PRINT: A Bookstore as we help launch Susan Minot’s new book of short stories, Why I Don’t Write, which will be released in early August by Knopf. This is Minot’s first collection of stories in thirty-five years, and Booklist calls the stories “exceptionally attuned to forces intimate and social” and “stunning in every sense of the word.” Minot will be in conversation with #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout, and the two will answer questions from the audience after their conversation.
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Susan Minot is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and screenwriter. Her first novel, Monkeys, was published in a dozen countries and won the Prix Femina Étranger in France. Her novel Evening was a worldwide best seller and became a major motion picture. She received her MFA from Columbia University and lives with her daughter in New York City and on an island off the coast of Maine.
Elizabeth Strout was born in Portland and grew up in small towns in Maine and New Hampshire. Strout is the author of seven books, including Olive Kitteridge, which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was adapted into a multi Emmy Award-winning mini series, and became a New York Times bestseller, My Name Is Lucy Barton, which topped the New York Times bestseller list, and Olive, Again, which was published in 2019 to much acclaim.