![]() ![]() The main character, the narrator, is Lizzie, and she’s a librarian at a university library. Jenny Offill: Weather is a novel about a librarian who slowly becomes a climate change doomer and then slowly comes back out of that again. Mary Laura Philpott: Let’s start with a zoomed-in focus on this latest book, and then we’ll talk more broadly about some other things. (She also shares what she’s been watching on TV during the pandemic.) In this interview for Nashville Public Television’s A Word on Words, Offill talks with host Mary Laura Philpott about how she translates the human experience into spare, sparkling novels packed with compelling emotional truth. In fact, her books have such a unique quality that it’s difficult to make comparisons when describing her writing if you were to liken her new book, Weather, to anything else, you would probably compare it best to her own prior book, the critically acclaimed and reader-beloved Dept. An Interview with Jenny Offill, Author of WeatherĪuthor Jenny Offill has been called “the master of novels told in sly, burnished fragments” (New York Times). ![]()
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