Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel are husband and wife. She is a poet, and he's a novelist. So they each have their own independent writing careers. But during the pandemic lock-down, they teamed up to co-author this novel titled Dayswork.
It’s a fictional log of a woman’s research during the pandemic, particularly her fascination with Herman Melville, but it’s also a look at this fictional couple’s relationship, and other pet tangents. I recently spoke with Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel about Dayswork, which was described by a friend of mine as, “It’s a novel that reminds you why you’ve devoted your life to books.”
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Dayswork was published by W.W. Norton & Company
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