At the start of the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards, it wasn't looking like a good night for the printed word.
Host Andy Samberg's opening musical number was all about the burden of keeping up with the high volume of acclaimed series on TV. During his monologue, there was even an off-screen voice and graphic that said, "Suck it, books."
Yet it was "Olive Kitteridge," an HBO limited series based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, that stacked up six trophies, the most of the night.
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Elizabeth Strout's 13 interconnected stories set in a fictional Maine town with a prickly, middle-school math teacher as the central character doesn't sound flashy.