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Jennifer Egan, The Afterlife of Sum

Kurt talks with the writer Jennifer Egan about A Visit from the Goon Squad, a novel about the music industry that jumps back and forth in time. The duo that make up Nortec Collective describes how...

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Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan's new novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, is a time-shifting collection of tales that weaves around the music industry. Egan explains why PowerPoint was the natural choice for a chapter...

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Jennifer Egan on A Visit from The Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan's novel, A Visit from The Goon Squad, follows a group of music industry types — sleazeball executives, aging rock stars, kleptomanical assistants — jumping forward, backward and sideways...

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The Fall of Spider-Man

With director Julie Taymor out, will Spider-Man soar or splat? Jennifer Egan’s book A Visit from the Goon Squad goes inside the music business, with sleazeball executives, aging stars, and pathological...

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Bonus Track: Death, Be Not Now

Our live show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music ended with Andrew Bird playing the Psycho theme, Hari Kondabolu impersonating General Curtis LeMay, and Kurt Andersen oversharing about a certain...

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Facing Fear with Andrew Bird, Jennifer Egan, and Hari Kondabolu

Live from the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a show devoted to the theme of fear —  the kind that that can motivate us, and the kind that can stop us in our tracks. Andrew Bird and the Hands of Glory join...

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The Double Life of Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan had sent just a handful of tweets in her life when she decided to do something bold: to publish an entire short story on Twitter. People had tweeted fiction before, but not anybody who...

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Facing Fear with Andrew Bird, Jennifer Egan, and Hari Kondabolu

Live from the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a show devoted to the theme of fear —  the kind that that can motivate us, and the kind that can stop us in our tracks. Andrew Bird and the Hands of Glory join...

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Bonus Track: Death, Be Not Now

Our live show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music ended with Andrew Bird playing the Psycho theme, Hari Kondabolu impersonating General Curtis LeMay, and Kurt Andersen oversharing about a certain...

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The Double Life of Jennifer Egan

More >>Jennifer Egan had sent just a handful of tweets in her life when she decided to do something bold: to publish an entire short story on Twitter. People had tweeted fiction before, but not...

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Jennifer Egan: Exploring Music and Time

Jennifer Egan is an award winning journalist and writer whose latest novel, A Visit From The Goon Squad, is full of music and musicians. It’s not rock fiction, per se, but its pages hum with song. She...

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Publishing a Story One Tweet at a Time

The New Yorker is serializing Pulitzer-Prize winning author Jennifer Egan’s latest short story, “Black Box,” through Twitter.Egan’s 8,500 word story is being sent out over the course of ten nights, 60...

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Deborah Treisman talks with Jennifer Egan about her story “Black Box.”

This week's issue of the magazine is the Science Fiction issue. Here Deborah Treisman talks with Jennifer Egan about her story "Black Box," written as a series of Tweets. And Jonathan Lethem, Junot...

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Jennifer Egan, One Tweet At A Time

Over the course of its short life, Twitter has been many things to many people… from not-so-personal diary to celebrity sounding board; from advertising platform to political tool for the collective...

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Selected Shorts: Hollywood in the Serengeti

A family’s trip to Africa changes everything in this excerpt from Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Good Squad.Hollywood in the Serengeti: this entire program is given over to a single story, “Safari,”...

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