Jenny Odell

Opinion | Would You Kill for a Job?

I wrote about Park Chan-wook’s new film 🫨

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...

No One Gave It to You - Believer Magazine During my senior year of high school, a guidance counselor who had it in for me gleefully noticed I was missing a semester’s worth of PE. I still have the paper on the Cupertino High School letterhead...

Jenny Odell (@jennitaur.bsky.social) speaks with four writers and artists (Marcus Burke, @rokwon.bsky.social, @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social, and @danielgalarcon.bsky.social) about their athletic practices:

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Our first-ever Sports Issue is coming soon! Featuring
@minakimes.bsky.social, Kiese Laymon, Jenny Odell, @lauravandenberg.bsky.social, a custom Believer-branded swim cap, and much more.

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I wrote a weirdo horror/comedy short film that takes place entirely in a hacked TV Guide channel. Watch CHANNELVUE here: vimeo.com/1128909278

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”

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Why “The Living Mountain” Endures Nan Shepard’s classic of nature writing and memoir is an education in how to reorient one's attention to a landscape and its lifeforms, human and nonhuman.

wrote about my experience — as a Californian obsessed with mountains — of reading Nan Shepherd’s paean to the Cairngorms

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Climate One x SFCW: Grist, Drawdown and Jenny Odell Climate One will be celebrating SF Climate Week with a series of programs featuring California's leading voices in state and local policy, climate justice, arts and culture. The week will feature inte...

We're stoked to be hosting a slate of SF Climate Week events again this year!

On April 22, join us for conversations with @globalecoguy.bsky.social, @nikhilswaminathan.bsky.social , and @jennitaur.bsky.social

a mature night heron sitting on some rocks on the edge of an urban lake, neck hidden

just a perfect football

a night heron standing on a ledge next to a Heineken can, at night outside a bar

a night heron and a beer… I feel this is a good omen

deep green, slightly shiny leaves fanning out in groups of five on a tree in a municipal park

update

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

my favorite buckeye tree is finally waking up for the year

you truly never know where you’re going to see a warbler

taiwanese edition of saving time 🤗

Gift Thinking - Orion Magazine The relationships, abundance, and reciprocity of nature’s economy

a conversation between me and robin wall kimmerer about her new book, the serviceberry: abundance and reciprocity in the natural world
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