Jennifer Egan
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Friends Indeed
Well, one of things we have in common as writers is that we don’t work too much from personal experience. So, I feel like there’s a constant desire for readers to find parallels between one’s life and one’s work. And…
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Famous Authors: They’re Just Like Us!
For T Magazine, seven authors reflect on the experience of revisiting and annotating their early works for an upcoming PEN American Center fundraiser. George Saunders thinks his style in CivilWarLand in Bad Decline was “manic and abrupt.” Jennifer Egan still…
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This Week in Short Fiction
It’s that time of year where we’re all craving a good scary story, be it told by candle light, on a screen, or in a book. Neil Gaiman’s middle-reader graphic novel Hansel and Gretel came out on Tuesday of this…
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Notable NYC: 4/26–5/2
Saturday 4/26: Andrew Durbin and Rod Smith join the Segue Series. Durbin’s Mature Themes is forthcoming from Nightboat Books. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Brooklyn Zine Fest. Brooklyn Historical Society, 11 a.m., free. Sunday 4/27: Emily Brandt, editor of No…
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Notable NYC: 11/9–11/15
Saturday 11/9: The Comic Arts Festival features guest speakers, indie publishers, and self-published comic zines. Mt. Carmel Church -and- The Knitting Factory, 11am to 7pm, free. Colum McCann reads from his novel Transatlantic (June 2013), presented by Community Bookstore. Brooklyn…
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Rock Out to These Books About Music
Book Riot has a kickass playlist of books in which music is central. From the Scott Pilgrim series to Jennifer Egan’s Pulitzer Prize–winning A Visit From the Goon Squad, they’re all books that use bands, records, and mix-tapes to strum at our…
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Sandy Hates Books
Hurricane Sandy hates books, according to the name of a relief fundraiser at the powerHouse arena in Brooklyn this Saturday. Although it seems unwise to anger Sandy any further (and perhaps unfair to expect a meteorological phenomenon to have an…
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Where I’m Reading – Then and Now
One of the reasons that I left my middle-management job during a recession was because I never had the energy left over to read. In fact, I never had the energy or passion left over to do much of anything.…
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Jennifer Egan’s Days of Yore
The Days of Yore interviews Jennifer Egan about her own road to becoming a writer. “And then it’s all about rewriting. Re-visiting, re-visiting and re-writing. I think it’s a mistake to be too precious about one’s words. I feel the…
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Jennifer Egan Has Things To Do
The most recent fiction Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan’s got a new piece in the Guardian’s Short Story Summer Special. Check it out.