Jennifer Egan | The Candy House
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- Recorded April 8, 2022
In conversation with Ariel Delgado Dixon
Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for the novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, “a new classic of American fiction” (Time) that follows an aging punk rocker and his young employee. Her other books of fiction include the National Book Award Finalist Look at Me, the bestselling The Keep, The Invisible Circus, and the historical novel Manhattan Beach, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, and The New Yorker, among many other publications. Imagined as a “sibling novel” to A Visit From the Goon Squad, Egan’s new novel conjurs a reality only a few advancements away from our own in which technology will allow users to download and share all their memories.
In Ariel Delgado Dixon’s debut novel Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You, two sisters endure a childhood of deprivation in a decaying warehouse and in a wilderness camp where troubled teenage girls are sent as a last resort. Referred to by author Joy Williams as “eventful, complex, admirably structured, relentless, and spooky”, this novel tells a story of trauma and the struggles of family relationships. Delgado Dixon has published writing in Kenyon Review, O: The Oprah Magazine, The Mississippi Review, and The Greensboro Review, among other periodicals.
She’s a genius. I love listening to her process. A review I read said they didn’t feel the human connection as much in Candy House as they did in Goon Squad, and I had the opposite experience. I loved Squad, but I felt a deeper understanding of the characters in Candy House and was firmly invested in their stories. This book is fantastic. She’s won a Pulitzer and I still think she’s underrated.
great talent, one of a kind
22:30 why would they even introduce the attempt to write a story in PowerPoint?
I’ve only read half way thru new book
It' happens in Goon Squad and if I remember correctly...I bawled through the whole chapter.
I have tried to read this woman’s books. I give then 100 pages and the writing is tedious and the characters are flat and the plots are uninteresting. What is the opposite of a “page turner”. Yet she gets award after award. Turns out Abe Lincoln was wrong…”you can fool all of the people all of the time.”
I got hooked listening to the audio book.