![]() ![]() Do you feel like you’re part of a literary scene here? I've been here for going on 11 years, and it's a cliche that there are lots of writers here, but I can see why they’re here- it's a fantastic place to live. Since we're a very New York-centric blog, we're always excited when we can get a local author who's made it on a national level. We talked to the author about what it feels like when you win a Pulitzer, her development deal with HBO, and the torment of a first draft. ![]() If that sounds like a challenge, it's not-Goon Squad, for all its tricky literary stylings, is a pleasure to read.Įgan, who seems slightly befuddled by the amount of praise she's racked up recently, will be participating in this fall's Brooklyn Book Festival alongside fellow hometown favorites like Jonathan Safran Foer, Colson Whitehead and Emma Straub. The book, according to Egan herself, is hard to explain, but in a loose nutshell, it follows-in a non-sequential, polyphonic fashion-the tale of an aging record exec and the people connected to him over the course of some 50 years. ![]() The Brooklyn-based author of the stunning, wholly original A Visit From The Goon Squad has been the talk of the town, thanks in no small part to her recent acquisition of a little award called the Pulitzer Prize. ![]() If you haven't already heard of Jennifer Egan, you will soon. ![]()
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