When Tom Perrotta and his wife, Mary Granfield, sent their second child off to college two years ago, they found themselves navigating a brand new life stage. “Parenting becomes this career ...

Tom Perrotta on Teaching, Turning Books Into Movies, and His New Show The Leftovers. By Boris Kachka, a writer and editor currently based in Los Angeles. July 6, 2014. save d.

Tom Perrotta wrote memorable female characters in his books "Little Children" and "Mrs. Fletcher" — but one leading lady stands out in his work: Tracy Flick. First appearing in Perrotta's 1998 ...

Tom Perrotta “The goal of fiction is to get inside the lives of these characters and give as honest an account as I can give of what I think is going on,” he adds, of writing Fairchild.

Tom Perrotta’s sequel to “Election” finds Flick, the character immortalized in film by Reese Witherspoon, reconsidering her past. By Molly Young When you purchase an independently reviewed ...

Tom Perrotta and Damon Lindelof photo: Getty Images. In the episode, you see a lot of Nora flat-out rejecting any pretty stories — from the nun or from anybody at the wedding, ...

Tom Perrotta will be reading at Earfull, the writers-and-musicians series, June 7 at 7 p.m. at Branch Line in Watertown. He’ll be at Brookline Booksmith June 13 at 7 p.m. and WBUR’s CitySpace ...

After getting a taste of the TV life in "The Leftovers," Tom Perrotta returns to adapt "Mrs. Fletcher" — this time as the sole showrunner.

But Tom Perrotta's latest — an ambitious, clever, funny, poignant talker that has Big Fall Hit written all over it — is no postmodern riff on 3-day-old meatloaf.

Tom Perrotta's latest novel explores what happens after a Rapture-like disappearance, so readers of his earlier work might expect The Leftovers to be smug and mocking. Skip to Article.