![]() Jenny Offill is here today on Between the Covers to talk about her latest novel, one of the most anticipated books of the year, entitled Weather. Offill is also a writer of Children’s books including 1 7 Things I’m Not Allowed to Do Anymore, 11 Experiments That Failed, While You Were Napping, and Sparky!, which the School Library Journal called the best damn Sloth-related picture book they’d ever read. She is the co-editor, with Elissa Schappell, of two anthologies of essays: The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women’s True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away and Money Changes Everything: Twenty-two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo with Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts, and Other Surprising Turns of Fortune. She teaches at Syracuse University and at the low residency program at Queens University. Offill is the recipient of a 2016 Guggenheim fellowship. Shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Pen Faulkner and the International Dublin Award, Department of Speculation became one of the most loved and talked about books of that year and beyond. ![]() Her follow-up, Department of Speculation was named a best book of the year by everybody, the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, Vogue and on and on. ![]() Offill’s first book Last Things was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the L.A. Today’s guest is the author Jenny Offill. ![]()
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