Jennifer Egan talks with Greg Sanders at Google, 8/29/11
Interviews
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal, 9/6/11
A Changed City: Reflections on 9/11
A Decade After Terrorist Attacks, New Yorkers Remember a ‘Surreal’ Moment, and a Renewed Commitment to Home
The Guardian
The Guardian (UK), 8/21/11
“I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot.”
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 9/6/11
“At first, the characters were ‘little islands far apart — I didn’t see the land mass that connected them till later.'”
Leonard Lopate Book Club
The Leonard Lopate Show Book Club, WNYC, 7/14/11
“Look at Me explores the American obsession with image and self-invention. A fashion model named Charlotte Swenson suffers injuries in a car accident that leave her face so badly shattered that it takes 80 titanium screws to reassemble it. She is still beautiful but is oddly unrecognizable.”
The Gothamist
The Gothamist, 7/8/11
“I don’t know what I’m doing. That’s the price you pay for doing something different every time.”
San Jose Mercury News
San Jose Mercury News, 6/15/11
“I was a witness — not a hanger-on, just kind of a looker-on.”
SF Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle, 6/14/11
“It feels just the right amount of different, so there’s no overlap at all with anything I’ve done before.”
The National
The National, 6/6/11
“Ideally you would like it to seem true but not actually be true – because then it’s not satire, it’s just realism.”
NPR’s To the Best of Our Knowledge
NY Magazine Vulture
New York Magazine: Vulture, 5/11/11
“I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves, that’s the most dangerous kind of censorship — that’s how hegemony works.”
The Big App Show
The Big App Show, with Adam Curry 5/19/11
7×7 SF
7x7SF, 05/16/11
“I think the city was in a sleepy hangover, and the echo of the ’60s was everywhere.”
Shelf Awareness/Bethanne Patrick
The LAist
The LAist, 5/10/11
“I think the industry, how books will be created and sold; there are legitimate worries there, but I’m not sure that the death of the book is on the list.”
The Guardian
The Guardian, 5/7/11
“I think there was a kind of clarity to being reduced to myself in this extreme way.”
The Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times, 4/29/11
“I think the real surprise to me is that young people seem to respond to it.”
The Atlantic
The Atlantic, 5/3/11
“Nonfiction expands my knowledge, but fiction broadens my experience.”
The Days of Yore
The Days of Yore, 4/18/11
“I was interested in corporeal strangeness. I wish I could tell you it was about making people well, but I think it was more about wanting to cut them open!”
Bookmunch (UK)
Bookmunch (UK) 4/11/11
“Quick views of someone you never get to know are so evocative.”
BBC Radio 4 Open Book
BBC 6 Music News
EW Online
Entertainment Weekly: Shelf Life, 4/3/11
“I just didn’t expect such an idiosyncratic, decentralized book to prompt such strong enthusiasm.”
Paperback Events Coverage
BBC The Strand
BBC Radio, The Strand, 3/25/11