Jenny Offill, Writer in Residence at Bard College, participated in a panel discussion on “Writing Climate Future” for LARB radio hour Podcast, moderated by Los Angeles Book Review and the Berggruen Institute. In the face of the climate crisis, questions about the role and effectiveness of environmental journalism are becoming increasingly urgent. Offill’s latest book, Weatherwhich was nominated for the Women’s Fiction Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, reflects the looming threat of global warming against the backdrop of modern everyday life. “At the time I started writing, Weather“I started writing about ‘The Last Airbender’ – this was about eight or nine years ago now – I felt like novelists always dealt with climate issues in a pretty apocalyptic way,” says Offill. “I realized that even if I read one of those books and liked it, at the end it kind of felt like, ‘Oh good, that didn’t happen. We’re not really out there dodging cannibals.’ And so I got the idea of ​​what would it be like to write a pre-apocalyptic book set in the present day?”

Release date: 13.08.2024