“I was a big fan of seeing inside other people’s homes, especially people who were a bit famous like Melissa,” says Frances, the narrator of Sally Rooney’s “Chats with Friends” early in the novel. Home ownership is a distant concept for Frances, a millennial college student in Dublin who writes and performs oral poetry. She’s …
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When Alison Oliver took a Zoom call with Sally Rooney last summer to talk about her lead role in “Conversations with Friends,” the new adaptation of the author’s debut novel, she couldn’t help but admire. Rooney – and his job – seem to have that effect on people. “I was such a big fan,” said …
The end was a little more abrupt for Ellen Schiller’s trio chain. “We were all texting constantly at the start of the pandemic and it was very dark and funny,” said Ms. Schiller, a 50-year-old fiber artist living in Salem, Mass., until the other two members of the band decided to start. a university consulting …