On my radar: Elizabeth Strout's cultural highlights

The novelist on the comfort of Edward Hopper, visiting a ghost town in Maine, and singing while scrubbing the bathtubBorn in Portland, Maine, Elizabeth Strout, 64, is the author of six novels including Olive Kitteridge (2008), which won the Pulitzer prize for fiction and has sold more than 1m copies. She published her first short story in 1982 but didn’t find wider success until her debut novel, Amy and Isabelle, came out 16 years later. Her latest novel, Olive, Again, a follow-up to her 2