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Sally Rooney

City Arts & Lectures

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Objects in Fiction Have a Carbon Footprint

M, i feel like one of my limits as a writer is that i'm worried of boring the reader all the time. So i can't sort of allow myself to describe physical environments in great detail. Or to talk about things that don't really matter to the plot. As a set designer, i am a minimalist. And i do find sofas, beds and stuff make huge appearances. But most of the time, no. It's not really relevant. M, you may say, there aren't really any plots in my oko. Why do i worry about that much? And thats that would be a good question. I guess i have a feeling of what the sort of

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