Elizabeth Strout
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
People are getting, you know, the school boards are saying, we don't like this curriculum anymore.
And that's a signal to any reader that things are now going to be different for Artie.
You know, I don't know, but...
But as I was writing him and I was so inside him, I thought, okay, so, you know, he's 57.
He's not really ever actually thought about free will that much.
And yet he's going through certain things and he's about to think about that.
And I mean, it was a number of years ago that I was having a drink with a friend of mine and she said, you know, I just don't think there's any free will.
And ever since that moment, I've thought about it often.
I thought, well, how could she be so sure?
But anyway, so I've thought about it myself.
And I thought, I already was going to think about this.
And that's at the beginning of the book.
And then it's sort of like a little like, heads up, everybody, this is the point of the book.
Nobody would enjoy the cocktail party, right?