Podcasts about Jenny Offill

In light of the recent fires in Los Angeles, we're re-airing an episode featuring a panel discussion titled "Writing Climate Futures" with David Wallace-Wells, Jenny Offill, Bharat Venkat, and Jonathan Blake. They discuss the role and efficacy of environmental writing, education, and the public discourse around climate change. The panel was hosted by the Los Angeles Review of Books in partnership with the Berggruen Institute.

On July 18th, Los Angeles Review of Books and The Berggruen Institute hosted a panel discussion titled "Writing Climate Futures," featuring David Wallace-Wells, Jenny Offill, Bharat Venkat, and Jonathan Blake. As our planet faces a climate crisis, questions about the role and efficacy of environmental writing assume greater urgency by the day. Through education, envisioning fictitious new worlds, and pushing forward the public discourse, writing holds the power to move the conversation we have around the future of our planet. LARB and The Berggruen Institute convened exciting voices in the climate movement from across genres to discuss how writing can enact change. David Wallace-Wells is the author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Penguin Random House, 2019), which argues that the state of the world, environmentally speaking, is “worse, much worse, than you think.” He is a weekly columnist and staff writer for the New York Times, deputy editor of New York Magazine, and he was previously the deputy editor of The Paris Review. He writes frequently about climate and the near future of science and technology. Jenny Offill is the author of three novels, Last Things, Dept. of Speculation, and most recently, Weather, which was shortlisted for the Women's Fiction Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She is also the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. She teaches at Bard College and lives in upstate New York. Dr. Bharat Jayram Venkat is an Associate Professor at UCLA with a joint appointment spanning the Institute for Society & Genetics, the Department of History, and the Department of Anthropology. His forthcoming title—tentatively titled Swelter: A History of Our Bodies in a Warming World— is about thermal inequality, the history of heat, and the fate of our bodies in a swiftly warming world riven by inequality. Dr. Venkat is the founding director of the UCLA Heat Lab, which investigates thermal inequality from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, ranging from biology and history to anthropology and urban planning. Jonathan Blake directs the Planetary Program at the Berggruen Institute. He is the coauthor, with Nils Gilman, of Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises and author of Contentious Rituals: Parading the Nation in Northern Ireland.

Emily Habeck swims on in to chat the book Christopher can't stop recommending to anyone and everyone, Shark Heart: A Love Story. Thrill to this episode where we get into the long and winding road from theater to novel writing, and the pleasures of re-reading Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation, 10 years on. Join the Patreon and hang out in the monthly book club, listen to exclusive episodes, and get access to the SMDB virtual book stoop a couple times a year! https://patreon.com/smdbFor the drink recipe, every book and link mentioned, and more, visit: https://www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/episode-233music: Disaster Magic(https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the latest podcast Ali caught up with writer and academic Dr Rodge Glass to learn about his extraordinary new book, Joshua In The Sky: A Blood Memoir. It's a slightly different interview as Ali picks certain texts which are referenced throughout, allowing Rodge to talk about the book in a different way. Before that he explains who Joshua is and the reasons for writing Joshua In The Sky, and talks about HHT (Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia) the rare genetic disorder they share. The two then go on to talk about the work of Caroline Bird, Jenny Offill, Tom Leonard, Hassan Blasim, and Grace Paley, among others. They also discuss the life and work of Alasdair Gray and Michel Faber, both of whom Rodge has written biographies of, which raises the subject of memoir, the differing ways to approach the form, and how both these writers, and writing about them, feed into this one. Fittingly for a book which defies easy explanation, this is an insightful and honest conversation which touches upon just some of the themes in Joshua In The Sky and which will hopefully lead to you wanting to know more. For full details, including all the ways to listen, head to https://www.scotswhayhae.com Photos of Rodge Glass - credit Alan Dimmick

On July 18th, Los Angeles Review of Books and The Berggruen Institute hosted a panel discussion titled "Writing Climate Futures," featuring David Wallace-Wells, Jenny Offill, Bharat Venkat, and Jonathan Blake. As our planet faces a climate crisis, questions about the role and efficacy of environmental writing assume greater urgency by the day. Through education, envisioning fictitious new worlds, and pushing forward the public discourse, writing holds the power to move the conversation we have around the future of our planet. LARB and The Berggruen Institute convened exciting voices in the climate movement from across genres to discuss how writing can enact change. David Wallace-Wells is the author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Penguin Random House, 2019), which argues that the state of the world, environmentally speaking, is “worse, much worse, than you think.” He is a weekly columnist and staff writer for the New York Times, deputy editor of New York Magazine, and he was previously the deputy editor of The Paris Review. He writes frequently about climate and the near future of science and technology. Jenny Offill is the author of three novels, Last Things, Dept. of Speculation, and most recently, Weather, which was shortlisted for the Women's Fiction Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She is also the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. She teaches at Bard College and lives in upstate New York. Dr. Bharat Jayram Venkat is an Associate Professor at UCLA with a joint appointment spanning the Institute for Society & Genetics, the Department of History, and the Department of Anthropology. His forthcoming title—tentatively titled Swelter: A History of Our Bodies in a Warming World— is about thermal inequality, the history of heat, and the fate of our bodies in a swiftly warming world riven by inequality. Dr. Venkat is the founding director of the UCLA Heat Lab, which investigates thermal inequality from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, ranging from biology and history to anthropology and urban planning. Jonathan Blake directs the Planetary Program at the Berggruen Institute. He is the coauthor, with Nils Gilman, of Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises and author of Contentious Rituals: Parading the Nation in Northern Ireland.

On July 18th, Los Angeles Review of Books and The Berggruen Institute hosted a panel discussion titled "Writing Climate Futures," featuring David Wallace-Wells, Jenny Offill, Bharat Venkat, and Jonathan Blake. As our planet faces a climate crisis, questions about the role and efficacy of environmental writing assume greater urgency by the day. Through education, envisioning fictitious new worlds, and pushing forward the public discourse, writing holds the power to move the conversation we have around the future of our planet. LARB and The Berggruen Institute convened exciting voices in the climate movement from across genres to discuss how writing can enact change. David Wallace-Wells is the author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Penguin Random House, 2019), which argues that the state of the world, environmentally speaking, is “worse, much worse, than you think.” He is a weekly columnist and staff writer for the New York Times, deputy editor of New York Magazine, and he was previously the deputy editor of The Paris Review. He writes frequently about climate and the near future of science and technology. Jenny Offill is the author of three novels, Last Things, Dept. of Speculation, and most recently, Weather, which was shortlisted for the Women's Fiction Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She is also the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. She teaches at Bard College and lives in upstate New York. Dr. Bharat Jayram Venkat is an Associate Professor at UCLA with a joint appointment spanning the Institute for Society & Genetics, the Department of History, and the Department of Anthropology. His forthcoming title—tentatively titled Swelter: A History of Our Bodies in a Warming World— is about thermal inequality, the history of heat, and the fate of our bodies in a swiftly warming world riven by inequality. Dr. Venkat is the founding director of the UCLA Heat Lab, which investigates thermal inequality from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, ranging from biology and history to anthropology and urban planning. Jonathan Blake directs the Planetary Program at the Berggruen Institute. He is the coauthor, with Nils Gilman, of Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises and author of Contentious Rituals: Parading the Nation in Northern Ireland.

In this episode, Joel's picked out another book that everyone seemed to read before he did. Jenny's Offill's Weather came out in 2020 and is set around the inauguration of Donald Trump's presidency and it's a book that feels like it's set in 2016, but does it hold up in 2024? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Annemieke Bosman met schrijver Yael van der Wouden over haar debuutroman De bewaring.  De bewaring speelt zich af in het naoorlogse Overijssel. Kogelgaten zijn weer gedicht, herinneringen aan de Holocaust zo veel mogelijk verstopt. Isabel woont alleen in het huis van haar overleden moeder, waar alles rustig voortkabbelt tot plotseling haar broer Louis met zijn nieuwe vriendin Eva voor de deur staat om bij haar de zomer door te brengen. Eva is in alles het tegenovergestelde van Isabel. Waar Isabel houdt van rust, houdt Eva van liederlijk late avonden; waar Isabel bedeesd en voorzichtig is, stampt Eva door het huis en trekt ze letterlijk alles uit de kasten. Maar dan beginnen er kleine dingen – een lepel, een mes, een kom – uit het huis te verdwijnen. Heeft Eva er iets mee te maken? Dat idee laat Isabel niet los. Koortsachtig houdt ze de nieuwe vrouw in de gaten, totdat ze – op het hoogtepunt van die zinderend hete zomer – een mysterieuze ontdekking doet waardoor netjes afgedekte geheimen haar plotseling keihard in het gezicht slaan. Misschien is de oorlog niet helemaal voorbij. Yael van der Wouden (1987) is schrijver en docent. Een van haar essays werd genoemd in The Best American Essays 2018. Yael geeft les in creative writing en comparative literature. De bewaring is haar debuut. Fannah Palmer (1993) is vertaler en redacteur bij uitgeverij HetMoet. Ze vertaalde werk van Honorée Jeffers en Safiya Sinclair. Roos van de Wardt (1981) is literair vertaler van onder anderen Jenny Offill, Deborah Levy en Nick Hornby. Ook geeft ze les aan de Vertalersvakschool in Amsterdam

When a book's plot and characters don't break a ton of ground in and of themselves, you're left hoping that the writing and the perspective will be enough to make a book interesting—luckily for us, Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation is insightful and entertaining despite its narrow scope and well-trod material. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/overdue and get on your way to being your best self. Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis. Advertise on OverdueSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“Does one ever move on from someone they love dying?” Lorrie Moore's I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home is a story of love, family, life and death, written with the unmistakable wit and humor her readers cherish. Moore talks with us about her distinct authorial voice, balancing humor and grief, the difference in reviewing television and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over. We end this episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and Madyson.    This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.   New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.           Featured Books (Episode):  I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore  Arcadia by Tom Stoppard  As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner  Birds of America by Lorrie Moore  The Hours by Michael Cunningham   A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore    Feature Books (TBR Topoff):  Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill   Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo 

Once upon a time (whoa-oh), we had a chat with Tara Trudel (wait a minute, wait a minute, there must be more to the story). Tara's take on music, entertainment, kidlit, marketing, and more is fresh and delightful. You know what else is fresh and delightful? Tara's album, FRACTURED: FAIRY TALES REMIXED, which debuted on May 5, just a few weeks ago!  Tara Trudel is here. Josh is here, Brenna is here, and Jon is here! And our Linktree is here (please subscribe!). Go stream FRACTURED: FAIRY TALES REMIXED right after you listen to this ep!  ------ Our reviews this week: FRIDAY NIGHT WRESTLEFEST by J.F. Fox, illustrated by Micah Player BOB THE TURTLE by Nathaniel Pommalai SPARKY! by Jenny Offill, illustrated by Chris Appelhans ------ Check out our sponsor The Kidlit Hive! Check out our awesome quokka artist Maddie Frost! And finally, if you'd like to support the podcast and ALSO want to celebrate a friend, an achievement, or a friend's kidlit achievement, we'd love it if you'd purchase a Community Shout-Out to help keep the lights on!

In episode 112, Heather and Bennett discuss the novel WEATHER by Jenny Offill and the Adam McKay film DON'T LOOK UP.

Como sentimos que estamos sempre a falar dos mesmos livros, esta semana fizemos o esforço de vos falar de alguns que nunca tínhamos trazido para o podcast. Se isto não é amor, não sabemos o que é.

Shelf Absorbed, a YouTube series started by the Mississippi Library Commission during the pandemic, returns as a regular podcast feature with Tracy and Shellie! Join them as they discuss books about friendships and how even adults struggle to navigate these relationships on this episode of Stacks and Stories. Books Mentioned 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True-Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away edited by Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell Just Kids by Patti Smith Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro Lady Sunshine by Amy Mason Doan Love and Saffron by Kim Fay The River by Peter Heller The Sunshine Girls by Molly Fader

American novelist Jenny Offill speaks to IWC teacher Karen Kao about her latest book, Weather, and offers some insights on her writing process and influences

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Our guest on episode 78 is poet Blake Auden, who has almost 300,000 Instagram followers and is known for speaking openly about mental health. He also has four collections of poems out in the world, and the most recent is Murmuration, which came out in October. He and I talked about what therapy and writing have in common, how he approaches social media so that it helps rather than hinders his mental health, and lots more. ***** Want to help the Brit Lit Podcast survive and thrive? Here are some painless ways. ***** Books Mentioned in this episode: Murmuration, by Blake Auden On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong Weather, by Jenny Offill  Dept of Speculation, by Jenny Offill Girl, Unstrung, by Claire Handscombe This Time Next Year, by Sophie Cousens Just Haven't Met You Yet, by Sophie Cousens The Twelve Dates of Christmas, by Jenny Bayliss The Winter of Second Chances (UK)/The Season of Second Chances (US), by Jenny Bayliss On a Night Like This, by Lindsey Kelk Gifts, by Laura Barnett Black British Lives Matter, ed. Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder Unscripted, by Claire Handscombe ***** Register for Claire's online book launch for Girl, Unstrung on 5th December here. In the US and now the UK, buy your hardbacks and paperbacks from Bookshop.org to support the podcast, as well as independent bookshops! In other countries, you can support the podcast by using this link to buy from Blackwells.com, which ships internationally at inexpensive rates. Get your first two audiobooks for just $14.99 with the code BRITLIT on Libro.fm. Help fund the podcast through this PayPal link! Buy Claire's novels, Unscripted and Girl, Unstrung. Sign up for Claire's mailing list. Questions? Comments? Need a book recommendation? Email Claire at britlitpodcast@gmail.com ***** The Brit Lit Podcast Instagram / Twitter / Facebook / Website Blake Auden Website / Instagram  Claire Twitter / Facebook / Blog / Novel / TikTok  

2021 Kıraathane Kitap Şenliği'ne katılan bağımsız yayınevlerinden Harfa'yla Kıraathane İstanbul Edebiyat Evi'nin ortaklaşa gerçekleştirdikleri bu etkinlikte canlı yayın konuğumuz Amerikalı yazar Jenny Offill'di. Konumuz ise yazarın dünyada ses getiren, Türkçede de Harfa tarafından Hava Durumu adıyla yayımlanan kitabı Weather.Podcast dili İngilizcedir, buluşmanın Türkçe altyazılı video kaydını ise YouTube kanalımızda izleyebilirsiniz.

Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of the short story collection Battleborn and the novel Gold Fame Citrus. She has received the Story Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, Watkins is a professor at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in Twentynine Palms, California. About I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness 9780593330xxx 304 pages | 6.27" x 9.29" Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2021 by The New York Times, USA Today, Vulture, The Week, and more! “There's some kind of genius sorcery in this novel. It's startlingly original, hilarious and harrowing by turns, finally transcendent. Watkins writes like an avenging angel. It's thrilling and terrifying to stand in her wake.” —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation and Weather A darkly funny, soul-rending novel of love in an epoch of collapse—one woman's furious revisiting of family, marriage, work, sex, and motherhood. Since my baby was born, I have been able to laugh and see the funny side of things. a) As much as I ever did. b) Not quite as much now. c) Not so much now. d) Not at all. Leaving behind her husband and their baby daughter, a writer gets on a flight for a speaking engagement in Reno, not carrying much besides a breast pump and a spiraling case of postpartum depression. Her temporary escape from domestic duties and an opportunity to reconnect with old friends mutates into an extended romp away from the confines of marriage and motherhood, and a seemingly bottomless descent into the past. Deep in the Mojave Desert where she grew up, she meets her ghosts at every turn: the first love whose self-destruction still haunts her; her father, a member of the most famous cult in American history; her mother, whose native spark gutters with every passing year. She can't go back in time to make any of it right, but what exactly is her way forward? Alone in the wilderness, at last she begins to make herself at home in the world. Bold, tender, and often hilarious, I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness reaffirms Watkins as one of the signal writers of our time.

In the wake of the COP26 summit in Glasgow we are thinking a lot about climate crisis and the role literature can play in galvanising people to take action. We want to think about how fiction, poetry, and non-fiction writing can approach climate crisis beyond showing how terrible it will be in the future - is there a way to write about the subject that's not only disaster fiction? How do we move out of what Jenny Offill calls 'the twilight knowing' into full comprehension? Listen in for our thoughts on all this plus lots of recommendations for books that address the climate crisis either directly or indirectly. Find a list of some of the books we talked about at: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/minisode-26-twilight-knowing

Weather is a great book.  What makes it so good?  This week we discuss the style and plot and how Offill manages to capture this feeling of being alive. This is the last book in our series on climate fiction.  Previously we read A Children‘s Bible by Lydia Millet and The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi You can join our book club discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanonicalPod where you can also find show notes, credits and extended discussions for every episode. You can support us by rating/liking/sharing our podcast! Subscribe to us here: Apple | Stitcher | Spotify | Google | Youtube You can also support us by buying Weather  or another book from one of our curated lists:  https://bookshop.org/shop/CanonicalPod. We earn a commission on every purchase and your local indie bookstore gets a cut too! We are also on Twitter and Facebook @CanonicalPod. Follow us to get updates on upcoming episodes

Reading a novel while awaiting the imminent climate apocalypse isn't the best way to spend one's time, but if you do wish to spend your pre-apocalypse days buried in a book, Offill's Weather is a fantastic choice.  Listen to our review and find out why! This is the last book in our series on climate fiction where we read A Children‘s Bible by Lydia Millet and The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi You can join our book club discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanonicalPod where you can also find show notes, credits and extended discussions for every episode. You can support us by rating/liking/sharing our podcast! Subscribe to us here: Apple | Stitcher | Spotify | Google | Youtube You can also support us by buying Weather  or another book from one of our curated lists:  https://bookshop.org/shop/CanonicalPod. We earn a commission on every purchase and your local indie bookstore gets a cut too! We are also on Twitter and Facebook @CanonicalPod. Follow us to get updates on upcoming episodes!

Last week we panned The Man with the Compound Eyes.  This week we discuss whether looking at this book from an ecocritical perspective can rescue this work from irrelevance.  Join us as Eyad explains how those brainy ivory tower nerds might help us understand the real meaning of this book after all. This is the second book in our series on climate fiction.  In this series we started this series with A Children‘s Bible by Lydia Millet and will also read Weather by Jenny Offill. You can join our book club discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanonicalPod where you can also find show notes, credits and extended discussions for every episode. You can support us by rating/liking/sharing our podcast! Subscribe to us here: Apple | Stitcher | Spotify | Google | Youtube You can also support us by buying The Man with the Compound Eyes or another book (really we'd go with another book) from one of our curated lists:  https://bookshop.org/shop/CanonicalPod. We earn a commission on every purchase and your local indie bookstore gets a cut too! We are also on Twitter and Facebook @CanonicalPod. Follow us to get updates on upcoming episodes!

Welcome to Apocalypse Soon: Book 2!  Our climate fiction series continues with Wu Ming-Yi's The Man with the Compound Eyes. Reviewers have compared Wu's work to Murakami-- does this book justify that comparison?  No, it does not.   In fact this book is in contention for the Vagabonds prize for the worst book that we read this year.  In this episode we talk about why this fell well short of our expectations.     This is the first book in our series on climate fiction.  In this series we started this series with A Children‘s Bible by Lydia Millet and will also read Weather by Jenny Offill. You can join our book club discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanonicalPod where you can also find show notes, credits and extended discussions for every episode. You can support us by rating/liking/sharing our podcast! Subscribe to us here: Apple | Stitcher | Spotify | Google | Youtube You can also support us by buying The Man with the Compound Eyes or another book (really we'd go with another book) from one of our curated lists:  https://bookshop.org/shop/CanonicalPod. We earn a commission on every purchase and your local indie bookstore gets a cut too! We are also on Twitter and Facebook @CanonicalPod. Follow us to get updates on upcoming episodes!

This week we present different readings of A Children's Bible.  We puzzle through the parents' disappearance, Jack's illness and Art equaling the Holy Ghost.  Also, Eyad explains to you why this book is great. This is the first book in our series on climate fiction.  In our upcoming episodes we will also read and discuss The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming Yi and Weather by Jenny Offill. You can join our book club discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanonicalPod where you can also find show notes, credits and extended discussions for every episode. You can support us by rating/liking/sharing our podcast! Subscribe to us here: Apple | Stitcher | Spotify | Google | Youtube You can also support us by buying A Children's Bible or another book from one of our curated lists:  https://bookshop.org/shop/CanonicalPod. We earn a commission on every purchase and your local indie bookstore gets a cut too! We are also on Twitter and Facebook @CanonicalPod. Follow us to get updates on upcoming episodes!

We kick off our climate fiction series Apocalypse Soon! with a review of Lydia Millet's A Children's Bible.  We discuss the narrative voice and the tone of this eerie apocalyptic allegory.  We also talk about how Millet uses the bible here as a way of structuring the book and whether or not this book is realist or (gasp) magical realism.  And as always, one of us loved this book and would recommend it to everyone (but you'll never guess who!). This is the first book in our series on climate fiction.  In our upcoming episodes we will also read and discuss The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming Yi and Weather by Jenny Offill. You can join our book club discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanonicalPod where you can also find show notes, credits and extended discussions for every episode. You can support us by rating/liking/sharing our podcast! Subscribe to us here: Apple | Stitcher | Spotify | Google | Youtube You can also support us by buying A Children's Bible or another book from one of our curated lists:  https://bookshop.org/shop/CanonicalPod. We earn a commission on every purchase and your local indie bookstore gets a cut too! We are also on Twitter and Facebook @CanonicalPod. Follow us to get updates on upcoming episodes!

First Draft Episode #336: Elissa Sussman and Arielle Jovellanos Elissa Sussman and Arielle Jovellanos, author and illustrator, respectively, of YA contemporary novel Drawn That Way. Elissa is also the author of Burn, Stray, and the upcoming adult novel, Funny You Should Ask. Arielle illustrated Evil Thing, a Cruelle de Ville backstory novel written by Serena Valentino, as well as graphic novel Black Star, written by Eric A. Glover. This episode is brought to you by Revision Season, a seven-week virtual master class in novel revision led by award-winning author Elana K. Arnold. The Fall 2021 Session of Revision Season will run Oct 10 – Nov 28, and enrollment is now open! Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode: Hear Elissa's First Draft interview here Glen Keane, 38-year veteran of Walt Disney Feature Animation and creator of Disney characters such as The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Beast, Tarzan, and Rapunzel. Howard Ashman, Oscar-winning lyricist, playwright, and stage director who wrote the lyrics for The Little Mermaid Frederator, an independent animation and media studio who produced Adventure Time, Bee and PuppyCat, and Bravest Warriors Pendleton Ward, creator of Adventure Time LAIKA studios, an animation production studio that created Coraline (movie) The Avengers (movie) Chris Evans, actor who portrays Captain America Babs Tarr, American illustrator and comic book artist who drew a run for Batgirl for DC Annie Wu, American illustrator and comic book artist who drew a run of Hawkeye for Marvel Janelle Asselin, former editor of DC comics Kevin Wada, illustrator Fresh Romance, the anthology which includes Arielle's comic, “School Spirit” Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan The Heroes of Olympus by RIck Riordan Elizabeth Bewley, literary agent at Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. Waking Sleeping Beauty (documentary) Janet Sung, illustrator, designer, colorist

In this episode, Audrey hosts their first book club episode, discussing Jenny Offill's Weather. The episode is broken into three sections: a non-spoilery discussion on the philosophy of the novel, a spoilery section on Weather's themes, and a poem-response of Audrey's own. Enjoy! Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15MMA1tczy8M-g-527qxkzlApLxhmEdRJyUuNwa6sJ2M/edit?usp=sharing Poem: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WVb7iFd75_PiBZgGeCLi4_ctLThbOIOYYhksIAGceA0/edit?usp=sharing Resources: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/02/14/learning-to-die-an-interview-with-jenny-offill/ nytimes.com/2020/02/05/magazine/jenny-offill-weather-book.html https://www.obligatorynoteofhope.com/ https://dark-mountain.net/ National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255

Frida och Lisen är tillbaka efter sommarsemestern. Frida har läst massor och är taggad, Lisen har tragglat med en klassiker hela sommaren.Böcker vi pratar om mycket:Trion av Johanna HedmanSwanns värld av Marcel ProustTour de chambres av Tine HøegVäder av Jenny OffillKvinnor jag tänker på om natten av Mia KankimäkiKärlek i kolerans tid av Gabriel García MárquezBöcker som vi nämner:Samlade verk av Lydia SandgrenDen hemliga historien av Donna TarttPappaklausulen av Jonas Hassen KhemiriAvd. för grubblerier av Jenny Offill

In this episode, Audrey breaks down Lorde's newest album, Solar Power, with their friend and fellow Lorde fan, Sadie Roussell. They discuss the responsibility of "pop stars" to talk about pressing issues, how art can empower us, fascism, and whether Lorde should've scaled the fish in "Oceanic Feeling" (Audrey: yes. Sadie: no.). "Weather" by Jenny Offill book discussion episode coming September 15th. To read along: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780345806901 To weigh in, email: imafraidofclimatechange@gmail.com Resources: https://www.insider.com/lorde-solar-power-new-album-details-release-date-2021-6 https://twitter.com/lordeanalytics/status/1417880758237208579 https://www.nme.com/news/music/lorde-solar-power-isnt-big-climate-change-record-2978876

In this episode, Audrey discusses the fossil fuel industry's past and present with funding climate disinformation. To weigh in, email: imafraidofclimatechange@gmail.com Line 3 Resources: https://www.stopline3.org/ https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/07/line-3-protest-pipeline-biden.html https://mn.gov/puc/line3/summary/ Get Weather by Jenny Offill: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780345806901 Resources: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/nov/05/scientists-warned-the-president-about-global-warming-50-years-ago-today https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-well-have-climate-models-projected-global-warming#:~:text=He%20was%20fairly%20accurate%20up,into%20account%20in%20his%20model. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/06pdf/05-1120.pdf https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/ https://www.climatechangecommunication.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/America_Misled.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-116hhrg38304/html/CHRG-116hhrg38304.htm https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53640382 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-mobils-messaging-shifted-blame-for-warming-to-consumers/ https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(21)00233-5 https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2021/05/25/slowing-population-growth-environment/ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/11/business/energy-environment/california-solar-mandates.html National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255

Today I read, "Sparky" by Jenny Offill! I hope you enjoy it! If YOU would like to choose the next book to be read on the Gumdrop Readers Podcast then you can send me an email including your name, age, and book request! Ask an adult to help you send it over to; gumdropreaders@gmail.com. You can check me out on Facebook @ "Gumdrop Readers Podcast" and on Instagram @ "gumdrop_readers" Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/trinity-love-rocho/support

Immer mehr Menschen leiden unter der psychischen Belastung der Klimakrise. Deswegen sprechen wir in unserer aktuellen Folge über Klimadepression und Solastalgie, über die Intensität von verschiedenen Krisen und die wechselnde Nähe und Distanz zu großen gesellschaftlichen Fragen.

Jorge y Mauricio de nuevo desde Prólogo hablando de las novelas 1794 de Niklas Natt och Dag y Clima de la escritora Jenny Offill. Además de Exhalación, un libro de cuentos de ciencia ficción escrito por Ted Chiang y también charlaron sobre una de las obras de Gabriel García Márquez.

First Draft Episode #314: Ben Zhu Ben Zhu, author, illustrator, and founder of Gallery Nucleus, talks about his debut picture book, Dessert Island. Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak Dan Krall, illustrator for Samurai Jack Chris Appelhans, writer and director of Netflix animated movie Wish Dragon, and illustrator of picture books Sparky! (written by Jenny Offill) and A Greyhound, a Groundhog (written by Emily Jenkins). Dan Santat, Caldecott Award-winning author and illustrator of The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, as well as After the Fall, Are We There Yet?, and The Guild of Geniuses, among many more. How to Draw the Marvel Way by John Buscema and Stan Lee Astro Boy (movie) Dave Masters, who taught animation at Rowland High School before leaving to become head animation trainer at Warner Bros. Chuck Jones, animator, filmmaker and voice actor, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Shorts. Kevin Chen, founder of Concept Design Academy Call of Duty Medal of Honor Jon Klassen, Caldecott Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the I Want My Hat Back series, who is back with a book he wrote and illustrated: The Rock From the Sky. Hear his First Draft interviews here and here. Wish Dragon, written and directed by Chris Appelhans (hear his First Draft interview here) Du Iz Tak? a Caldecott Honor book written and illustrated by Carson Ellis, who also wrote and illustrated Home and In the Half Room. Hear her First Draft interview here. Drawing on Walls: A Keith Haring Story written by Matthew Burgess and illustrated by Josh Cochran. Matthew is a poet, picture book author, and Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College who wrote The Bear and the Moon, illustrated by Cátia Chien. Hear their First Draft interview here. Arree Chung, award winning author and illustrator of Mixed: A Colorful Story, Ninja!, and Out!, as well as founder of Storyteller Academy.

Dieses Buch handelt nicht vom Wetter, obwohl es so heißt, und ist auch kein normaler Roman. Es ist eher eine Art Tagebuch, in dem Lizzie erzählt, wie sie versucht, Leben und Familie zusammen zu halten und den ganzen Irrsinn zu begreifen, der uns täglich herausfordert. Von Elke Heidenreich.

Today's guest is Deborah Kaufmann, VP of Literary Affairs at Legendary Entertainment. Translated into lay, non-Hollywood terms, this means that Deborah is some sort of in-house scout for Legendary, in charge of finding literary properties that can be adapted to the big or small screen. As you'll find out, such properties can include books, but also unpublished short stories, podcasts, and news and magazine articles. It was fascinating to get to know Deborah's work a bit more in depth, and to hear her thoughts on the current state of the movie business and the revolution brought about by streaming giants such as Netflix and Amazon. Show Notes Deborah's book recommendations: - Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro - Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker - Weather by Jenny Offill About Deborah: Since 2014, Deborah Kaufmann has been overseeing acquisitions of literary properties for Legendary Entertainment's film and TV divisions, and working in New York. Previously, she was a senior editor based in Paris, publishing award-winning and international bestselling authors for 15 years – including Jenny Offill, Howard Jacobson, Claire Vaye Watkins, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Malala Yousafzai, Tana French, Anthony Horowitz, Walter Kirn, Elizabeth Gilbert, Audrey Niffenegger, Jeff Lindsay, and many others. She also ran the Orbit France science-fiction and fantasy imprint.

In this week's episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan are joined by author Jenny Offill and literary and film critic James Plath. First Offill shares her reaction to the insurrection and attempted coup at the Capitol last week, and discusses her latest novel, Weather, out in paperback next week. Then, Plath explores the origins of conspiracy theories in history and literature and how right-wing extremists have weaponized them under Trump, and talks about editing Critical Insights: Conspiracies.  To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. And check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub's Virtual Book Channel and Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel. This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope. Selected readings: Jenny Offill Weather Last Things Dept. of Speculation James Plath Critical Insights: Conspiracies “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conspiracy”   Others: “The American Abyss,” by Timothy Snyder, The New York Times Magazine On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder Hannah Arendt The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Three Days of the Condor (film) by Sydney Pollack  Utopia (TV series) by Gillian Flynn “Stop Making Sense, or How to Write in the Age of Trump” by Aleksandar Hemon, The Village Voice “Jenny Offill: 'I don't miss the world as much as, perhaps, I should'” by Alex Preston, The Guardian JFK (film) by Oliver Stone Libra by Don DeLillo Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon V (TV series)  Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison “The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories” by Brielle A. Marino, Psychology Today Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison “The Hull Case” by Peter Ho Davies “Teen Names Family Who Harassed A Black Woman On Video,” Buzzfeed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thanks for listening to the In Fewer Words podcast. In this episode, Alexa talks about and reads excerpts from Jenny Offill's novel Dept. of Speculation and Cate Marvin's poetry collection Oracle. More books on Instagram @alexaisreading: instagram.com/alexaisreading.

Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation, talks to editor Josie Mitchell about her new novel, Weather. They discuss pre-apocalypse warnings, the doomers among us and the draws of prepper culture in a world gone mad. You can read an interview between Jenny and Mark O'Connell, author of Notes from an Apocalypse, on our website: https://granta.com/in-conversation-oconnell-offill/ 

On this episode of The Writer and the Critic your hosts, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, discuss Weather by Jenny Offill [3:30] and Hold by Kirsten Tranter [30:20]. Ian and Kirstyn both thoroughly recommend a visit to Obligatory Note of Hope, mentioned during the discussion, for readers wanting to engage further in some of the issues raised by Jenny Offill. If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 1:02:40 for brief final remarks. Next month, the two books up on the slab will be: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Read ahead and join in the spoilerific fun!

In this episode, we delve into cancel culture. The idea of being cancelled, what it means, how it works and its differences with call-out culture. Does cancelling people actually work? Does it do anything to their career? When is it a good thing and when is it going to far? WHAT WE'VE BEEN ENJOYING Culture Weather by Jenny Offill (book) Code Switch - Why Now, White People? (podcast) Film & TV The Politician (Netflix show) The Bureau (Amazon Prime show) Little Fires Everywhere (Amazon Prime Show)

To support our work and listen to additional content, see here: https://patreon.com/yourshelf and follow us on social media @_yourshelf_. In our latest, fourth episode of The YourShelf Podcast, Flights of Thought, our chief curator Juliano Zaffino (Jay) sits down with author Sara Baume to discuss books, birds, and Sara's nonfiction debut handiwork. For full show notes, see here: https://podcast.yourshelf.uk/episodes/4. Thanks for listening.  LinksPatreonInstagramTwitterPodcastYourShelfEpisode NotesJay asks Sara about her bookshelves, the books that made her, and what she's excited to read in the near future. (from 2:12)Sara begins the discussion with some insights from the writing of her nonfiction debut, handiwork. Sara and Jay discuss all three of Sara's published books, the importance of birds, solitude and other recurrent themes throughout her work. (from 13:30)Finally, Sara talks about her new novella, slated for a 2021 publication, and talks about launching a book during a national lockdown. Sara also shares some quarantine reading recommendations. (from 54:02)Jay recommends signing up to our Patreon for access to exclusive content, including a 10min bonus episode with more content from the interview, where Jay and Sara Baume play a game of "Celebs Read Nice Tweets", and Sara answers some "phone-in questions".Jay wraps up with all the books that were discussed in the episode and a few other books he recommends. Some of the books and authors we discussed in our latest episode include Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Alice Lyons' Oona, Celia Paul's Self Portrait, Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea, Raynor Winn's The Salt Path, Max Porter's Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, Han Kang's The White Book, Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, Rob Doyle's Threshold, Evie Wyld's The Bass Rock, Adrian Duncan's A Sabbatical in Leipzig, Olivia Laing's forthcoming Funny Weather, Jenny Offill's Weather, and Colum McCann's Apeirogon. If you're looking for even more recommendations, especially in the age of social distancing, Jay has you covered. While most of the books he's read recently have been Sara Baume's three fantastic books, he also recommends the poetry of Doireann Ní Ghríofa, whose forthcoming prose debut A Ghost In The Throat is discussed by Sara earlier in this episode. Currently, he's reading Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, The M Pages by Colette Bryce, After Fame by Sam Riviere, and Rest and Be Thankful by Emma Glass; while he hasn't yet finished these books, each one is already totally compelling and recommendable.Also, Jay reminds that you can order a copy of his book of poems, the debut publication of The YourShelf Press, on yourshelf.uk/press.Sara Baume closes with a reading from her non-fiction debut handiwork (from 1:02:48).Buy, read and review handiwork online now, available from most bookstores! Sara's previous books Spill Simmer Falter Wither and A Line Made By Walking are also both available for purchase.Thanks for listening and tune in again soon for Episode Five!

Today's guest is a leading light in the vanguard of experimental fiction - announcing her credentials with her 2014 novel Dept. of Speculation, this year Jenny Offill followed up with a marvellously rich and comic tour de force. Her new novel Weather etches with droll precision the thinking, breathing mind of its central character, Lizzie.

Jenny Offill’s new novel, “Weather,” is about a family, and a nation, in crisis. Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree, but this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling. Benson is a fake shrink which sees her advice grow increasingly apocalyptic and unhinged.

To support our work and listen to additional content, see here: https://patreon.com/yourshelf and follow us on social media @_yourshelf_. In our latest, third episode of The YourShelf Podcast, Everyday Exorcisms, our chief curator Juliano Zaffino (Jay) sits down with Lynn Gunn of PVRIS to discuss books, confessional poetry in rock music, and the upcoming third album from PVRIS, Use Me - in particular, two songs from the album, Dead Weight and Good To Be Alive. For full show notes, see here: https://podcast.yourshelf.uk/episodes/3. Thanks for listening.  LinksPatreonInstagramTwitterPodcastYourShelfEpisode NotesJay asks Lynn about her dream writer-rockband, the books that made her, and how she stores her books. (from 2:25)Lynn opens the discussion by exploring the creative development of PVRIS over the past six years, with particular focus on their upcoming third album Use Me. Lynn and Jay also talk about the occult, Lynn's creative process, and confessional poetry on the rock scene. (from 9:59)Finally, Lynn talks about dream collaborators and what it means to be a gay front-woman in rock. (from 41:34)Jay recommends signing up to our Patreon for access to exclusive content, including a 10min bonus episode with more content from the interview, where Jay and Lynn Gunn play a game of "Celebs Read Nice Tweets", and Lynn answers some "phone-in questions".Jay wraps up with all the books that were discussed in the episode and a few other books he recommends. Some of the books and authors we discussed in our latest episode include Ted Hughes' Birthday Letters, the work of Edgar Allen Poe and Sylvia Plath, Jenny Slate's brilliant memoir/essays Little Weirds, The Power of Positive Thinking, Rebecca Tamas' WITCH, and Madeline Miller's Circe. If you're looking for more recommendations, especially in our current age of social distancing, Jay's here to help. Recently Jay read the brilliant Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel, which concluded two weeks ago with the long-awaited publication of The Mirror & the Light, one of the most transcendent books and the most expertly crafted historical fiction. In poetry, Caroline Bird's The Air Year is already one of the best collections of 2020. In literary fiction, Jenny Offill's doomsday-prepper-inspired Weather is a relevant, dark, but still hopeful novel, while in the world of memoir, Rebecca Solnit's Recollections of My Non-Existence is an uplifting and illuminating account of how one of our greatest essayists and thinkers came to find her voice.Also, Jay reminds that you can order a copy of his book of poems, the debut publication of The YourShelf Press, on yourshelf.uk/press.Buy and stream PVRIS's new single Dead Weight ahead of the release of third album Use Me in May!Thanks for listening and tune in again soon for Episode Four!

Colum McCann's Apeirogon; Jenny Offill's Weather and Tommy Wieringa's The Blessed Rita

Harriett Gilbert is joined by food blogger Jack Monroe and comic actor Doon MacKichan to talk about the books they love, including Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill, The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay and The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Producer Beth O'Dea

Dissident Gardens (Vintage Books) Mermaids in Paradise (W.W. Norton & Company) Jonathan Lethem, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the MacArthur Fellowship whose writing has been called "as ambitious as [Norman] Mailer, as funny as Philip Roth, and as stinging as Bob Dylan" ("Los Angeles Times"), returns with an epic yet intimate family saga. Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist who savages neighbors, family, and political comrades with the ferocity of her personality and the absolutism of her beliefs. Her equally passionate and willful daughter, Miriam, flees Rose's influence for the dawning counterculture of Greenwich Village. Despite their differences, they share a power to enchant the men in their lives: Rose's aristocratic German Jewish husband, Albert; her feckless chess hustler cousin, Lenny; Cicero Lookins, the brilliant son of her black cop lover; Miriam's (slightly fraudulent) Irish folksinger husband, Tommy Gogan; and their bewildered son, Sergius. Through Lethem's vivid storytelling we come to understand that the personal may be political, but the political, even more so, is personal. Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet returns to redefine “comedy of errors” in Mermaids In Paradise, the genre-bending satire of a tropical honeymoon hijacked by mermaids, kidnappers, and mercenaries. In this hilarious novel, a honeymooning couple makes friends with a marine biologist who discovers genuine mermaids in a coral reef—and who, the next night, apparently drowns in her hotel bathtub. As a resort chain swoops in to corner the market on mermaids, the newlyweds (opinionated, skeptical narrator Deb and handsome online gamer Chip, the world's friendliest man) join forces with other vacationers—including an ex–Navy SEAL with a love of explosives and a hipster Tokyo VJ—to protect the mermaids from the corporate “Venture of Marvels” that wants to turn their habitat into a theme park. Mermaids in Paradise is Millet's funniest book yet, tempering the sharp satire of her early career with the empathy and emotional power of her more recent, critically acclaimed novels and short stories. This is an unforgettable, mesmerizing tale, comic on the surface and deeply solemn at its core. Praise for Dissident Gardens: "Dissident Gardens seamlessly weaves together three generations, yet it doesn't broadcast itself as a multigenerational epic, nor is it afflicted by the desire to pose as the next great American novel. It's an intimate book."--The New York Times Book Review "A tour de force, a brilliant, satiric journey through America's dissident history."--The Star Tribune "Lethem has artfully blended, redefined, ignored, satirized and enriched the traditional categories of fiction."--The Plain Dealer "Remarkable. . . . Lethem's best novel since "Motherless Brooklyn." . . . Crackle[s] with wordplay and intelligence."--The Miami Herald "The writing soars. . . . Lethem can riff with the best, spinning knockout lines that make you stop and stare . . . while you admire a sentence's every turn."--The Seattle Times "An assured, expert literary performance by one of our most important writers. . . . Magnificent."--Los Angeles Review of Books Praise for Mermaids in Paradise: "Mermaids in Paradise makes brilliant comedy out of a honeymoon trip that veers from the absurd to the sublime and back again. Lydia Millet is a stone-cold genius. --Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation "I laughed so hard all over town. Leave it to Lydia Millet to capsize her human characters in aquamarine waters and upstage their honeymoon with mermaids. I am awed to know there's a mind like Millet's out there. She's a writer without limits, always surprising, always hilarious. --Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! andVampires in the Lemon Grove Jonathan Lethem is the "New York Times" bestselling author of nine novels, including Chronic City, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, and of the nonfiction collection The Ecstasy of Influence. A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Lethem's work has appeared in "The New Yorker," "Harper's Magazine," "Rolling Stone," "Esquire," and "The New York Times," among other publications.  Lydia Millet is the author of twelve previous books of fiction. Her novel Ghost Lightswas a New York Times Notable Book; its sequel Magnificence was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle and Los Angeles Times Awards in fiction; and her story collection Love in Infant Monkeys was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She lives outside Tucson, Arizona.