The Millions, 7/12
“This is where Egan’s genius lies. She engages with philosophical questions and is formally daring, and yet, and yet!, her work is emotionally moving, the stories and characters always compelling.”
Interviews
Dossier
Dossier, 7/9
“As Egan’s fans know, her style varies from book to book and this collection is a testament to her wide-ranging mastery of voice and tone.”
Guttersnipe
Guttersnipe, 7/1
“Guttersnipe reached Jennifer Egan at home in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, where she was enjoying some time off following a book tour. Music journalism, Jagermeister as an artistic choice, and the future of books were among the topics.”
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 7/4
“I really wasn’t thinking of anything but breaking open a cliche I wanted to understand,” she says, “and out of this came this guy I was just nuts about.”
Guernica
Guernica/a magazine of art & politics
Egan talks with Temple University’s Joshua Lukin, who knows her work better than she does.
The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast, 6/29
“Egan is an iconoclastic and original fiction writer, hewing to her own genre-bending path and creating fresh starts with each new book. Her finely tuned cultural antennae, her elegant language, and the unpredictability of her imagined universes make reading her work an adventure. Her work is supremely intelligent, psychologically acute, seriously playful, attuned to cutting-edge technology.”
St Louis Courier-Journal
St. Louis Courier-Journal, 6/28
“Part of the joy of reading “Goon Squad” is the thrill of recognition that comes from being fully introduced to a character who has been alluded to in a preceding chapter.”
Express from the Washington Post
Express from the Washington Post, 6/28
“In general, Egan is less interested in telling her own story than she is in describing the world from her own point of view.”
Bookotron
Bookotron, 6/28
“What I am frankly most curious about is how the novel will be received by the science fiction community.”
The Paris Review
The Paris Review, 6/25
The Rumpus
Drinking Diaries
Drinking Diaries, 6/13
Philebrity
Philebrity, 6/17
“We wish they made more novelists like Jennifer Egan these days.”
Wall Street Journal, NY Region
Wall Street Journal, NY Region, 6/15
“Brooklyn-based novelist Jennifer Egan has accomplished the tricky feat of using metafiction techniques without sacrificing old-fashioned storytelling.”
The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC
The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC, 6/10
Bookslut/2006
Bookslut, December 2006
“One of the questions I had as I worked on this novel was, could a book be funny and scary?”
Salon.com
Salon.com, 6/13
“Trying to “follow” the “plot” of “Goon Squad” is like trying to count the pores on your arm while tripping: tempting, yes, but a distraction from all the pyrotechnical fun.”
Bomb Magazine
Bomb Magazine, Summer issue
Interview with Heidi Julavits
“Egan is a super-thinky writer in quasi-disguise, a writer who alchemizes Big Ideas into works of emotional intensity and architectural intricacy, the result being sneaky books you can recommend to those friends and relatives who demand “recognizable” characters and thumping storylines, but whom you hope might find tantalizing, beneath these vibrant entertainments, the buzzing circuitry of Egan’s mighty brain.”
Cleveland Plain Dealer-Sex Interview
Why is Good Writing about Sex so Rare? Discuss
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 4th, 2010
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February 9, 2008
“I think anyone who’s writing satirically about the future of America and life often looks prophetic.”
Poets and Writers
Poets and Writers (Cover Story) Sept/Oct 2006
Powers of Perception: A Profile of Jennifer Egan/ After the success of Look at Me, her eerily prescient social satire of American life, what did Jennifer Egan turn to next? The gothic novel, of course. By Jessica George Firger
New York Magazine
New York Magazine, August 28, 2006
Off The Shelf: Jennifer Egan/ The author of the new novel “The Keep” on five books in her library that have influenced her–and why Henry James is so hard to read in New York.
The Believer
The Believer, August 2006
“My big decisions in fiction happen instinctively. I seem to need that gut feeling of excitement. And oddly enough, it also turns out to be my best guide toward what’s going to really interest me on those brainier levels. My big decisions in fiction happen instinctively. I seem to need that gut feeling of excitement. And oddly enough, it also turns out to be my best guide toward what’s going to really interest me on those brainier levels.”
New York Times On the Web
New York Times On the Web, July 22, 2006
Audio: An interview with Jennifer Egan, the author of “The Keep.”
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle, July 23 2006
“It was the right moment for me to remember what is unique and exceptional about human beings, to remember the power of the imagination.”