Sally Rooney is still getting used to being (very) famous.
, who naturally adore her. “I want to consume everything Sally Rooney forever!” says Edgar-Jones from the set of her latest film, in New Orleans. “She is so lovely and so incredibly intelligent.” Joe Alwyn, the British actor set to star in theis similarly smitten. “Sally’s mind is just so brilliant,” he says, “testing the boundaries of how we love, how we are able to love, how we are able—or not—to function within structures that we have been taught.
I search her study for visual markers of the stratospheric success she has enjoyed in the intervening years, but given she is a self-identified Marxist, that isn’t exactly Rooney’s style—dressed in a taupe crewneck sweater, she is nearly camouflaged against the bare, beige walls of her home.
What is it about Rooney’s novels that get under the skin? “When I look at my own reading life, the books that I’ve felt completely swept away by are set among the landed gentry in 19th-century Britain, which I really don’t identify with at all,” says Rooney, considering why her work resonates, its ability to traverse age and nationality. “But I care about [those people] very much if they’re in a Jane Austen novel or a George Eliot.
“I think that Sally’s someone who has written all her life, regardless of whether it is published or not,” her friend and fellow Irish author Nicole Flattery tells me. “I imaginewriting would be strange to her.” It’s true Rooney completed her first novel at 15 and joined a creative-writing group, but school was never her thing: Adolescence, a dislike of authority, and homework put paid to that. It wasn’t until her early 20s that she started writing properly, so to speak, and with gusto.
For years, Rooney was a fixture on its nonstop schedule of book launches and poetry nights. When she went to New York as a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library in 2019, it was “the first time I’d ever been outside Ireland for more than a month or so,” she says. “I was homesick, which surprised me actually. When I was a teenager, I thought, you know, I can’tto go live in New York,” she whines in her best precocious-teen voice.
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