Jenny Offill
Jenny Offill\xa0is the author of the novels\xa0Last Things,\xa0Dept. of Speculation,\xa0and, most recently,\xa0Weather. One of the pleasures of reading Offill\u2019s books is hearing the emotional struggles and ambivalent attitudes of very honest narrators.\xa0 In Weather, the concerns of daily life and parenting combine with the looming apocalypse of climate change. Both hilarious and heartbreaking, the novel asks readers to think about the mundane ways we live and grapple with our rapidly deteriorating environment. \xa0Offill lives in upstate New York and teaches at Syracuse University and Queens University.
\n\nOn March 18, 2021, Jenny Offill talked via videoconference with Brit Marling, an actor and writer who has focused on creating projects that offer counter-narratives to the more common ones diminishing women\u2019s worth.\xa0