Egan joins the ranks of Alice Munro, Philip Roth, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and many other astonishing luminaries.
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Jennifer Egan
A Century of Fiction in THE NEW YORKER: Interview with Deborah Treisman at Rizzoli Books, NYC
Celebrating Martin Amis: 92nd Street Y, NYC
Interviewing Alexis Madrigal at P&T Knitwear, NYC
Yale English Department, New Haven, with Amity Gaige: Open to all!!
Moby Dick from Sea to Stage: Conversation/Performance at the NYPL, NYC
A Celebration of Jane Austen, 92Y, NYC
THE GREAT GATSBY at 100; Symphony Space, NYC
Conversation with Katie Kitamura at Center For Fiction, Brooklyn
Celebrating Amity Gaige’s HEARTWOOD: McNally Seaport, NYC
Ohio University Spring Literary Festival, Athens OH
Holiday Personalizations of all Books ordered from local indie Greenlight Bookstore!
All Egan books here. No sales tax if you’re out of state. Specify holiday wishes and personalizations in the “comments” field. Hardcovers available for GOON SQUAD and CANDY HOUSE!!
GOON SQUAD makes the NYTimes’s List of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century!
Wilkes Honors College at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
In Conversation with Danzy Senna about COLORED TELEVISION, Brooklyn NY
Book Launch: Rumaan Alam’s ENTITLEMENT, New York
Words, Ideas and Thinkers Literary Festival: Lennox, MA
Beacon Litfest, Beacon NY
UPenn Campus at Noon: Investigating Homelessness
Center for Fiction: Interviewing Claire Messud
Downtown Philly Barnes and Noble: Q&A
After a year of reporting, Egan publishes “Off the Street,” about street homelessness and supportive housing in NYC, in THE NEW YORKER
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures
“Book Tour: At Home with Jennifer Egan”
Interview with John Williams
California Book Club chooses “The Candy House” for its October selection!!
All-Virtual Discussion will be on Thursday, October 22 at 5pm PT/8pm EST
The Candy House Excerpt
Essay by Priscilla Gilman, “Sweet Forgettings”
Visual Essay by Nichole LeFebrvre, “Eating our own tails: Reading Jennifer Egan in Silicon Valley”
Essay by
Essay by David Ulin: “Why You Should Read This: The Candy House”