"There is still such crookedness in my heart," she says. In Dept of Speculation she writes about a woman who is a creative-writing teacher, has published one book and is struggling to write another. Offill, who teaches creative writing at Columbia University, published her debut novel, Last Things, 15 years ago a follow-up novel can bring its own problems. What "happens" in this brilliant, risk-taking novel is the conflict between routine and obligation pitched against all the other things we'd rather be doing. "Yes," she says, in a plume of understatement. The writer explains that there isn't one. "I think I must have missed your second book," he says. There is a scene in Jenny Offill's Dept of Speculation in which the writer protagonist bumps into a man she used to know.
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