Jenny Odell

@jennitaur.bsky.social

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screen shot of a Publishers Marketplace Deal Report in the category of non-fiction narrative. It reads: “Author of HOW TO DO NOTHING and SAVING TIME Jenny Odell's ON REPAIR, which explores the act of repair-from material objects to entire ecosystems-as a practice of care and attention that can restore our agency and feeling of belonging in and to the world, to Hilary Redmon at Knopf, by Caroline Eisenmann at Frances Goldin Literary Agency (NA). Rights also to Stuart Williams at Bodley Head (UK), by Carrie Plitt at Felicity Bryan Associates; also to Ten Have (the Netherlands), by Jeanine Langenberg at Sebes & Bisseling; and to Hanser (Germany), at auction, by Leonie Kress at The Liepman Agency. Rights: rights@goldinlit.com”
a mature night heron sitting on some rocks on the edge of an urban lake, neck hidden
a night heron standing on a ledge next to a Heineken can, at night outside a bar
deep green, slightly shiny leaves fanning out in groups of five on a tree in a municipal park
page from the book Saving Time that reads: "A patch is as small as you want to make it. The smallest one I have had is a single branch of a California buckeye tree in a nearby municipal park, a place I visited or passed through hundreds of times during the pandemic. Buckeyes are temporally notable around here: They go dormant in the late summer, their bare branches looking like an electrified brain, and they eventually grow hard, brown, poisonous seed pods the size of peaches. The scent of their white flowers in spring is my favorite smell, and I look forward to it every year."
a hand behind a small green bud at the end of a branch on a dormant buckeye tree in a city park
a townsend’s warbler, yellow with a black streaked mask, hopping around in a flowering shrub in a planter in a downtown area