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'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...
View ArticleJennifer 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleBonus 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...
View ArticleFacing 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleFacing 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...
View ArticleBonus 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleJennifer 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...
View ArticlePublishing 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...
View ArticleDeborah 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...
View ArticleJennifer 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...
View ArticleSelected 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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