Tag Archives: Jennifer Egan

Eganism

April 18, 2011 – 7:11 pm

We’re very excited to learn that Jennifer Egan has won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her terrifically kick-ass, beautifully woven and beautifully peopled book, A Visit From the Goon Squad. It has without a doubt been one of the more talked about books of fiction in recent years and for very good reason. [...]

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Selected Shorts

January 16, 2011 – 2:33 pm

This past week, Symphony Space presented the ‘Selected Shorts’ program in which Richard Russo discussed editing the Best American Short Stories 2010. (His introduction is not be missed, I might add. It may be one of the most simple yet moving intros for the series.) Two of the stories were read aloud- the actress Hope [...]

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Jennifer Egan

July 8, 2010 – 10:53 am

Jennifer Egan’s latest book, A Visit From the Goon Squad is a collection of short stories told in many different voices that come together to look at a group of people and the passage of time. Each story could easily stand alone, as did “A to B,” which was published in Dossier and “Safari,” which [...]

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