Jennifer Egan
Thalia Book Club with Sherry Turkle, New York City
Greenwich Library
Center for Fiction, Brooklyn NY
The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, Louisville KY
Morselife Literary Society
THE CANDY HOUSE is appearing on multiple Best-of-2022 Lists!!
The New York Times Book Review: TOP 10 Books of 2022!!!
New York Times critic Dwight Garner’s 3 Favorite Novels of 2022
“It’s about technology, about stabs at a collective consciousness, but it’s got a vastly human soul.”
PBS News Hour: 12 Books to Read from 2022
“It is grappling with what it means to be hooked into technology and social media.”
“The effect is even more dazzling than in Goon Squad, a tribute to fiction’s power to access truths that mere information can never convey.”
Philadelphia Inquirer: Top 10 Books of 2022
“When it’s brilliant, they call it speculative fiction.”
The Economist: Top 6 Fiction of 2022 (behind paywall)
“A novel about what humans lose in offering up their private lives to algorithms that mine them for profit…a kind of 21st-century Middlemarch”
Entertainment Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2022
“The novel — with its prismatic plotting and ever-shifting chorus of seekers, kooks, and visionaries — feels less like a house than a honeycomb full of fantastical rooms, each one alive and thrumming with bright, weird humanity.”
Kirkus Editor-in-Chief’s Top 6 Books of 2022
“Such inventiveness, intelligence, and style! This one left me breathless as it explored themes of memory, privacy, family, and more with pure storytelling brio.”
Hollywood Reporter: 10 Best Books of 2022
“Egan’s latest is a beautiful reminder that the literary world has not fallen prey to Hollywood’s existing-IP creative drought.”
“After her fiercely spectacular A Visit From the Goon Squad, the odds seemed slim Jennifer Egan could do it again—and yet, she did.”
Mental Floss’s 16 Best Books of 2022
“Following up 2010’s Pulitzer Prize-winner A Visit From the Goon Squad was a tall order, but Jennifer Egan succeeds in spades with her sort-of sequel The Candy House.”
Library Journal: 10 Best Literary Fiction of 2022
National Kidney Foundation Lunch, with legendaries Billy Collins, Michael Connelly, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton and Michael Krasney
Atelier at Large: Jennifer Egan & Michael J. Love, Princeton University
P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts, New York City
UCSB Arts and Lectures Series: Speaking with Pico Ayer
President Obama included THE CANDY HOUSE on his 2022 Summer Reading List!!!
