Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing

Published 2020 · 101,200 words · about 7 hours at an average pace

How hard is Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency to read?

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency scores 51 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Vocabulary: 58 out of 100
Art-critical vocabulary, accessibly used.
Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
Clear essayistic sentences.
Abstraction: 58 out of 100
Artists' lives used to think about crisis.
Information density: 58 out of 100
A collection, so uneven.

How Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency is regarded

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency holds a literary regard score of 45 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.

About the author

Olivia Laing