Why are critics and readers so drawn to Jenny Ophill's fiction?

Leslie Jamison will join us to talk about Ophill's new novel,

Weather, and what makes her work so distinctive.

What does it take to survive as a first-time author?

Courtney Mom will join us to talk about before and after the book deal,

a writer's guide to finishing, publishing, promoting, and surviving your first book.

Alexander Alter will give us an update from the publishing world,

plus we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.

It's Friday, February 7th, and this is the BookerView podcast for The New York Times.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Leslie Jamison is here in the studio.

Her most recent book is Make It Screen, Make It Burn,

Assays, which was reviewed in the BookerView last fall,

but she's here now to talk about another book.

She reviewed this week on our cover, Jenny Ophill's Weather.

Leslie, thanks for being here.

It's so wonderful to be here.

So you, let's first talk about Jenny Ophill, who she is,

Parallel Sagle, a staff critic for The Times,

wrote a profile of Jenny Ophill in this week's issue of The New York Times Magazine,

but give us a sense of who this writer is.

Well, I think about Jenny Ophill's work and why it matters and why I think it's really created

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