155: Jenny Offill (WEATHER) and Jean Rhys' WIDE SARGASSO SEA

In This Episode:

Jenny Offill, author of Weather (now out in paperback) joins the Damn Library through the internet tubes. Christopher makes a second drink for the book (after he and his wife Sarah discussed it during one of the early pandemic eps), there's talk of How Things Have Changed and the writing process, and Jenny sends us to warmer climes with her book club pick: Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea!

The Ep. 155 Bookshelf

THIS EPISODE'S BOOKS:

Weather by Jenny Offill
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

WHAT'D YOU BUY?:

Drew — Reel Bay by Jana Larson // Rabbit Island by Elvira Navarro, trans. by Christina MacSweeney
Christopher — The Ouran High School Host Club // The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin
Jenny — The Complete Stories of Leonard Michaels // Friends and Dark Shapes by Kavita Bedford // a subscription to Wave Press

ALSO MENTIONED:

Last Things by Jenny Offill
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Olga Grushin’s list of Offbeat Children’s Books for Adults
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Night Stalker: Hunt for a Serial Killer
On Tyranny
”It’s the End of the World as We Know it… And He Feels Fine” — NYT profile of Paul Kingsnorth
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
The Invention of Everything by Samantha Hunt
Let Them All Talk (2020 — directed by Steven Soderbergh, written by Deborah Eisenberg)
Census by Jesse Ball
Lupin (2021-present)

RECOMMENDATIONS:

Drew — Your Duck is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg // How to Order the Universe by Maria José Ferrada, trans. by Elizabeth Bryer
Christopher — quit books! // United Sodas of America // Great British Bake-Off soundtracks
Jenny — Borgen (2010-2013) // The Italian Job (1968 — directed by Peter Collinson, written by Troy Kennedy Martin)

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