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Clocking in at #39 on the writers’ list, and #30 on the readers’ list…
Interview with John Williams
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”
Egan returns to her beloved alma mater for a second stint as Artist-in-Residence at the English Department, where she will teach a literature course (open to all) in Spring 2024.
Fifth option for GOON SQUAD. Hoping this amazing deal will be the charm!!
This exhaustive interview, “Jennifer Egan’s Disciplined Restlessness,” was assembled by legendary editor Deborah Treisman from a year’s worth of conversations.
Purchase links and Reading Group Guide HERE
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
The Candy House is making a number of book lists for 2022.
Catch up on the news, reviews, and interviews for the coming book.
Grateful and Thrilled that GOON SQUAD has somehow remained in the conversation after ten years:
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/studying-novels-with-novelist-Jennifer-Egan
Jennifer Egan is currently Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania, teaching English 086 in Spring 2018: Self, Image, Community: Studies in Modern Fiction.
Find out about events and book discussion groups here.
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