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The Dan and Mary Miller Auditorium<\/a> buzzed with the voices of writers, readers, students and teachers on Saturday, Jan.14, at the opening of the 19th Annual Writers in Paradise Reading Series<\/a> at Eckerd College.<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”2\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]In the language of music, according to Merriam-Webster.com, \u201cThe first and harmonically fundamental tone of a scale\u201d is considered a keynote<\/em>, and on that cool winter evening in St. Petersburg, Florida, the fundamental note belonged to Elizabeth Strout<\/a>. Her latest novel in her nine-book repertoire of resonating characters is Lucy by the Sea<\/em> (Random House, 2022), an intimate tale about isolating with an ex-husband in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic. She read from the book\u2019s first 12 pages before conversing on-stage with writing conference faculty member and bestselling author Andre Dubus III<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Like many others, I did not see it coming,\u2019\u201d Strout\u2019s eponymous character Lucy Barton speaks from Page 1 of her latest novel. \u201cIt\u2019s odd how the mind will not take anything in\u2014until it can,\u201d Strout said about settling into the realities and social intricacies of living through our first modern pandemic.<\/p>\n

During her Q&A with Dubus, Strout said she writes stories about people\u2019s lives because she loves people.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”10092″ image_size=”full” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”Fade In” animation_easing=”default” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”16″][vc_column_text]Elizabeth Strout speaks to an audience in Miller Auditorium. Photo by Nicholas Garnett<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” el_class=”lg_text” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column_text]\u201cI am so desperately curious about people,\u201d she said, and she believes every person is extraordinary in one way or another.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_content” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”32″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” advanced_gradient_angle=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=”” gradient_type=”default”][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”right” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]The character of Lucy Barton came to her as a \u201cgold thread\u201d whose breathy voice she heard. \u201cI\u2019m not Lucy,\u201d Strout said, \u201ceven though we\u2019re both writers. I\u2019m not Lucy, but it doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d Olive Kitteridge, the main character of her Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning novel by that name, \u201cwas never a gold thread\u201d but appeared to Strout while she was unloading the dishwasher, saying to her: \u201c\u2018It\u2019s high time everybody left.\u2019 There\u2019s a tiny part of me in every one of my characters,\u201d she admitted.<\/p>\n

On the subject of failure, Strout said she failed over and over between the ages of 4, when she began to write stories, and 43, when she finally published. But the thought of quitting depressed her, so she kept writing and improving. \u201cYou have to be desperately interested in what it feels like to be another person to be a writer,\u201d she said, and she thinks about the reader all the time. \u201cI am trying to get my experience into your head. Readers need to feel like they are in safe hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her advice to fellow writers, of whom there were perhaps hundreds on this first night of the weeklong writers\u2019 conference and nightly reading series, is to \u201cjust keep reading good stuff and writing\u2014don\u2019t stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are what you eat as a reader-writer,\u201d Dubus agreed.<\/p>\n

And so did Bill Boden \u201900, an Eckerd creative writing<\/a> graduate from Largo, Florida, who was refining his memoir in Madeleine Blais<\/a>\u2019s writing workshop and has read almost all of Strout\u2019s books. \u201cShe sounds as wise and all-knowing as the voice in her books,\u201d he said as the lights came up in the auditorium. \u201cThe literary world is in good hands with authors like Elizabeth Strout.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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