Variety: Reese Witherspoon to Star in ‘Election’ Sequel ‘Tracy Flick Can’t Win’ at Paramount+
Interviews
New York Times: Tom Perrotta: By the Book
The author of Little Children, Election and The Leftovers had to force himself to finish Lolita: “All that sparkling wordplay just got exhausting after a while.” (read more)
ThoughtCast: Tom Perrotta on Flannery O’Connor — a literary affinity
Tom Perrotta, the author of Little Children, Election, The Abstinence Teacher and the upcoming novel The Leftovers, speaks with ThoughtCast about a writer who fascinates, irritates and inspires him: Flannery O’Connor. (read more)
The Atlantic: The Leftovers, Our Town, and the Brutal Power of Ordinary Details
Author Tom Perrotta, co-creator of a much-hyped new HBO drama, says Thornton Wilder’s play taught him to write about finding meaning in the banal. (read more)
Bonus Track – Tom Perrotta on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s influence:
Reviews
Tracy Flick Can’t Win Catches Up With a Hard-Luck High Achiever
–New York Times
Tracy Flick Can’t Win
–Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
Tom Perrotta Returns to Familiar Turf: Sex, Schools and Suburbia
—New York Times
In Mrs. Fletcher, Tom Perrotta Satirizes the Sex Lives of Mothers and Sons
—New York Times
When the Suburbs Get Skeevy
—The New Yorker
Mrs. Fletcher review: Tom Perrotta is the Jane Austen of 21st century sexual mores
—Newsday
The Eerie Aftermath of a Mass Exit
—New York Times
Tom Perrotta’s Subtle Apocalypse
—The New Yorker
Twilight of the Boosters
—Los Angeles Review of Books
All the Children Are Above Average
—New York Times
The Apocalypse According to ‘The Leftovers’
—The New Yorker
Ron Charles reviews The Leftovers, by Tom Perrotta
—The Washington Post
‘The Leftovers’ is one of the best TV shows ever made
—Vox
‘The Leftovers’ Turned the End of the World Into the Best Show on TV
—The Ringer
Novelist paints an intriguing pas de deux
—The Seattle Times