Newyorker.com Interview with Deborah Treisman
This exhaustive interview, “Jennifer Egan’s Disciplined Restlessness,” was assembled by legendary editor Deborah Treisman from a year’s worth of conversations.
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Hoboken Literary Weekend, NJ
Hunter College Distinguished Writers Series, NYC
Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Sante Fe Literary Festival, NM
News, upcoming lectures, readings and book signings
THE CANDY HOUSE is out in paperback, and an immediate IndieBound Bestseller!!
Purchase links and Reading Group Guide HERE
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
President Obama included THE CANDY HOUSE on his 2022 Summer Reading List!!!
Own Your Unconscious
Who are the Eluders
Anticipation for The Candy House
The Candy House is making a number of book lists for 2022.
Catch up on the news, reviews, and interviews for the coming book.
5-Minute Writing Exercise: Unlocking the Unconscious
Extreme End-of-Decade Love for A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD!!
Grateful and Thrilled that GOON SQUAD has somehow remained in the conversation after ten years:
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Best Book of Decade
Time Magazine: 10 Best Books of Decade
ELLE: 15 Books that Defined the 2010s
Philadelphia Inquirer: 20 Best Books of the Decade
VOX: 19 Best Books of Decade
Literary Hub: The Best 20 Novels of the Decade
Recap of Jennifer Egan’s experience as a Literature Professor:
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.
Manhattan Beach Chosen for the One Book, One New York Summer Read!!
Find out about events and book discussion groups here.
MANHATTAN BEACH is a Finalist for the One Book, One New York read!
Please, help MANHATTAN BEACH to be read widely in the city that inspired it! Voting takes *one second*…really!
Jennifer Egan becomes President of PEN America
Friends, colleagues and readers, please immediately join this tremendous organization, dedicated to protecting free speech at home and abroad! It’s crucial…and cheap!
MANHATTAN BEACH longlisted for the Women’s Prize (UK)!!
MANHATTAN BEACH wins the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction!!
End-of-Year Love for MANHATTAN BEACH!
The Spectator (UK): 6 Best Books of 2017
Booklist: Top of the List for 2017. Best Fiction Title
PBS: Best Books of 2017
Amazon: Best Literature and Fiction of 2017
New York Newsday: Best of 2017
MANHATTAN BEACH has been shortlisted for the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Other finalists are the splendid novels SING UNBURIED SING and LINCOLN IN THE BARDO.
UK Tour Details
Manhattan Beach book tour starts October 3rd!
October 2017: Jennifer Egan to publish new novel, MANHATTAN BEACH with Scribner!!
Starred Kirkus review here.
Starred Publishers Weekly Review here.
Scribner Press Release here.
Entertainment Weekly article here.
Bookseller article here.
Archived site for A Visit from the Goon Squad
The previous version of this site has been archived at goonsquad.jenniferegan.com.