Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake.

I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me.

I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy.

Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and feeling, and she gets life on the page in new, startling ways.

You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?

I am a writer who is definitely working with a specific language and more than English, that language is American. And I work very much in idiom and am very interested in the play of different kinds of rhetoric, whether it is the more high-flown stuff that reeks of age. I love to juxtapose something like that with something more current or urgent. I am always interested not in America by itself, but America as an idea and how that idea has changed over time, in the eyes of the rest of the world and in the eyes of Americans.

Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake.