![]() ![]() Her shorter work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review and Slate among other notable publications. Jenny Offill is the author of three critically acclaimed novels and four children’s books. If you’re based in Amsterdam, check with Athenaeum Boekhandel (Spui location). You can purchase copies of her books in ebook and paperback formats from most major retailers. Jenny will be talking with teacher Karen Kao about how curiosity feeds her writing, how humor and sadness work together, what novelists can learn from poetry, writing for children, and much more. If you’d like to get a feel for her work and wonderful sense of humour, read this interview with her in the Guardian about Weather, which tackles the climate crisis, and this one “ How to Write Fiction When the Planet Is Falling Apart” in the New York Times. ![]() She’s also the author of a number of children’s books. of Speculation (named one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by the New York Times Book Review) and Weather (shortlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction). Jenny is perhaps best known for her novel, Dept. ![]() Best-selling American novelist Jenny Offill will give a master class for us on 17 July 2022 from 17:30 to 19:00 at Studio BloemDwars, Bloemgracht 167, 1016 KM Amsterdam (see map) with drinks and bites afterward. ![]()
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