20, less than a year after its semi-prequel, “ Oh William!,” which has been nominated for the Booker Prize. “Lucy by the Sea” is coming out from Random House on Sept. Slowly at first, steadily, then at breakneck pace, Strout has constructed a universe of flawed, crabby, vulnerable people - mostly Mainers and New Yorkers, plus a few Midwesterners - who pop up in each others’ stories without fanfare. If you’re keeping track of Strout’s output, you might have noticed that she’s on a roll. Lucy Barton is at the wheel, with William riding shotgun and Strout’s voice navigating their getaway car. It has a bittersweet immediacy, as if Strout got to work the day Tom Hanks announced he’d been infected, but somehow manages to keep Covid in the back seat. We met to discuss “Lucy by the Sea,” Strout’s ninth book, which follows Lucy Barton - a writer who has appeared in previous novels - through the first year of the pandemic, when she flees New York City to quarantine with her ex-husband, William, in a rented house in Maine. From a New York Times story by Elisabeth Egan headlined “At 66, Elizabeth Strout Has Reached Maximum Productivity”:
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