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Writers Talking Writers: Jennifer Egan on Edith Wharton and Jinwoo Chong on John Okada

Two writers whose work explores the aggregate nature of personal and collective fate discuss authors who were master interrogators of social dualism in their own times. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-05-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Showing Up Every Day: A Conversation with Dewaine Farria, by Matt Gallagher

Showing Up Every Day: A Conversation with Dewaine Farria, by Matt Gallagher Interviews [email protected] Tue, 10/10/2023 - 15:38 Dewaine Farria belongs to the world. As a US Marine, he served in Jordan and Ukraine, and spent much of his... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

[ World Literature Today | 2023-10-10 20:38:06 UTC ]
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Jennifer Egan on the Fascinating Interactions Between Technology and Inner Life

Illustration by Krishna Bala Shenoi. Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso is a weekly series of intimate conversations with artists, authors, and politicians. It’s a podcast where people sound like people. New episodes air every Sunday, distributed by Pushkin Industries.  * In this episode from May 2022,... Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2023-04-25 08:53:29 UTC ]
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Jennifer Egan: ‘Twitter doesn’t make me feel optimistic about human nature’

The Pulitzer prize-winning author discusses her follow up to A Visit from the Goon Squad and how imagining a new technology set her writing freeWhen Jennifer Egan bought her house in Brooklyn 20 years ago, it had been on the market for eight months. The owners were an elderly couple, and the... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2022-04-16 08:00:03 UTC ]
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Jennifer Egan wants to save literary fiction from itself

Jennifer Egan walks and talks — about 'The Candy House,' her sequel to 'A Visit From the Goon Squad,' and why she still believes in fiction and humanity. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-04-03 12:00:47 UTC ]
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10 books to add to your reading list in April

Bethanne Patrick's April picks include highly anticipated novels from Jennifer Egan, Emily St. John Mandel, Don Winslow and Douglas Stuart. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-03-31 13:00:29 UTC ]
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Jennifer Egan’s ‘The Candy House’ revisits the goon squad

“The Candy House” is a sequel to Jennifer Egan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “A Visit From the Good Squad.” Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'

[ The Washington Post | 2022-03-29 11:52:21 UTC ]
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Sunday Reading: Summer Fiction

From The New Yorker’s archive: short stories by Zadie Smith, Jennifer Egan, and Stephen King. Continue reading at 'New Yorker'

[ New Yorker | 2020-08-30 10:00:00 UTC ]
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Sunday Reading: Summer Fiction

From The New Yorker’s archive: short stories by Zadie Smith, Jennifer Egan, and Stephen King. Continue reading at 'New Yorker'

[ New Yorker | 2020-08-16 10:00:00 UTC ]
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Egan's 'Manhattan Beach' Wins 'One Book, One New York' Vote

Jennifer Egan's novel 'Manhattan Beach,' the story of a female diver at Brooklyn’s Navy Yard during WWII, has been chosen as the book for "One Book, One New York," an annual contest to decide on a book that will be read by the entire city. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Egan, Myers and Lynch in contention for Walter Scott Prize

Jennifer Egan, Benjamin Myers and Paul Lynch are among the authors shortlisted for the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This Week's Bestsellers: October 16, 2017

Instagram poet Rupi Kaur has the #3 book in the country with ‘The Sun and Her Flowers,’ the follow-up to ‘Milk and Honey.’ Plus ‘We Were Eight Years in Power’ by Ta-Nehisi Coates heralds the relaunch of the One World imprint, and Jennifer Egan’s ‘Manhattan Beach’ gives the ‘A Visit from the Goon... Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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10 best books of October 2017, according to Amazon's editors

From a memoir of time spent in space to the latest works by well-known authors such as Rupi Kaur and Jennifer Egan, the books being released in October are a varied group. Check out the titles that Amazon editors liked the best, with thoughts from Amazon senior editor Chris Schluep. Continue reading at 'The Christian Science Monitor'

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2017-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Morpurgo, Winterson and Rosen headline Manchester Literature Festival

Michael Morpurgo, Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson will appear at the Manchester Literature Festival in October to help explore “divas, dissidents, pioneers and radicals”. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookExpo 2017: Writing What She Doesn’t Know: Jennifer Egan

Listening to Jennifer Egan talk about writing fiction brings to mind the famous quote from E.L. Doctorow: “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writers unite in campaign against 'thuggish' Amazon

Nearly 900 authors across world back criticism of online retailer's business tactics in ebooks dispute with US publisher HachetteThey include some of the biggest literary names on the planet, among them Stephen King, Donna Tartt, Paul Auster, James Patterson and John Grisham; a Pulitzer prize... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2014-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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