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https://uscpress.com/Understanding-Jennifer-Egan

Full length novel about her work

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Understanding Jennifer Egan is the first book-length study of the novelist, short-story writer, and journalist best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad. Alexander Moran examines each of Egan's varied published works, analyzes how her journalism informs her fiction, excavates her literary and intellectual influences, and considers her place in contemporary fiction.

Moran argues that because Egan's fiction is not easily categorized many of her novels have been underappreciated. He proposes a framework for understanding her writing centered on what it means to have, and to write, an "authentic" experience. In Emerald City, Egan explores the authenticity of touristic experience; in The Invisible Circus, her focus shifts to the authenticity of historical memory; in Look at Me, The Keep, and A Visit from the Goon Squad, she explores the effects of digital technology on how we understand authentic experience. In the concluding chapter, Moran discusses Egan's 2017 novel Manhattan Beach as a text that explores the authenticity of history and genre while resonating with the instability of the present.

Alexander Moran, Faculty Chair for Excellence in Undergraduate and Graduate Writing at Stanbridge University, is the editor of Conversations with Jennifer Egan.

"Jennifer Egan is among the most significant American writers at work today. In this first single-author study of her work, Alexander Moran animatedly illuminates staged authenticity across Egan's oeuvre. This book is a crucial touchstone for a critical field that has only just begun to give Egan her due."-Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck College, University of London

"Alexander Moran offers perceptive thorough incisive readings of Egan's major works in this full-length study-one long overdue given her importance as a major voice in contemporary fiction. Extending far past A Visit from the Goon Squad to consider Egan's oeuvre, Moran illuminates the imaginative breadth of one of our most challenging writers, working at and beyond the conflicted boundary of the post-postmodern."-Jeffrey Roessner, Mercyhurst University

"Combining astute analysis with choice biographical insights, Understanding Jennifer Egan offers an impressive account of one of America's premier contemporary novelists. Moran's book shines a particularly welcome light on Egan's neglected early fiction and journalism, and deftly sets her career in the context of major debates in literary studies today."-Adam Kelly, University of York

"Cogent, thought-provoking, and packed with insight, Moran's book moves Egan to the forefront of the discussion about living American writers. Scholars, fans, and critics will rejoice: Egan's work finally has the full analysis it deserves."-Matt Bucher, International David Foster Wallace Society

" Understanding Jennifer Egan is an exceptionally useful tool for any researcher wishing to understand Egan's significance in contemporary American fiction, detailing her consistent attention to current events and changing global trends and power structures."- U.S. Studies Online

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Understanding Jennifer Egan is the first book-length study of the novelist, short-story writer, and journalist best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad. Alexander Moran examines each of Egan's varied published works, analyzes how her journalism informs her fiction, excavates her literary and intellectual influences, and considers her place in contemporary fiction.

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https://jenniferegan.com/

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1

People rarely look the way you expect them to, even when you've seen pictures.

The first thirty seconds in a person's presence are the most important.

If you're having trouble perceiving and projecting, focus on projecting.

Necessary ingredients of a successful projection: giggles; bare legs; shyness.

The goal is to be both irresistible and invisible.

When you succeed, a certain sharpness will go out of his eyes.

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When you know that a person is violent and ruthless, you will see violent ruthlessness in such basic things as his swim stroke.

"What are you doing?" from your Designated Mate amid choppy waves after he has followed you into the sea may, or may not, betray suspicion.

Your reply-"Swimming"-may or may not be perceived as sarcasm.

"Shall we swim together toward those rocks?" may or may not be a question.

"All that way?" will hopefully sound ingenuous.

"We'll have privacy there" may sound unexpectedly ominous.

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1 People rarely look the way you expect them to, even when you've seen pictures. The first thirty seconds in a person's presence are the most important. If you're having trouble perceiving and projecting, focus on projecting. Necessary ingredients of a successful projection: giggles; bare legs; shyness.

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Sibling Novel to Her Most Decorated Work

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Sibling Novel to Her Most Decorated Work

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https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/86801-scribner-buys-new-jennifer-egan-book.html

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Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan has a new novel slated for publication on April 5, 2022. The Candy House was sold to the author's longtime publisher, Scribner, and is, the Simon & Schuster imprint said, the "sibling novel" to the author's award-winning 2010 A Visit from the Good Squad.

A Visit from the Goon Squad, which received a starred review from PW, won both the Pulitzer and a National Book Critics Circle award, and the new novel, which unfolds in and around New York City and San Francisco over the course of decades, involves, Scribner said, a cast of interconnected people and "an intricate plot." Its characters include a tech billionaire, record producers, aging rock stars, and an anthropologist, among others. The book also features a nation called X and overlaps, through characters and plot points, with A Visit from the Goon Squad.

Nan Graham, who bought North American rights to the novel from ICM Partners' Amanda Urban, called Candy House "a staggeringly prescient, funny, and hopeful novel from one of our most spectacularly brilliant writers." She added that the book, like A Visit from the Goon Squad, shows its author's "stunning imagination," while celebrating "the human capacity to adapt, to create, to love."

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'The Candy House,' set for April 5, 2022, is being dubbed by Scribner as a sibling novel to Egan's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2010 book, 'A Visit from the Goon Squad,' and is set over the course of decades in and around both New York City and San Francisco.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl86UbQWmyk&ab_channel=TalksatGoogle

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A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan | Talks at Google

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She is active on Twitter promoting her upcoming book release as well as events she is involved in with other artists.

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