Episode · The Book Review · 2024-08-19
Books mentioned on 21st Century Books Special Edition: Jennifer Egan on 'A Visit from the Goon Squad'
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan is a critically acclaimed novel exploring time, aging, and the music industry through an interconnected series of narratives.
Discussed“because with all the good luck the Goon Squad had I knew that if it wasn't if this book wasn't pretty strong it was going to be perceived as a a kind of weak followup or a failure”
Where to get it
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The Candy House
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan is an imaginative, intricately structured novel that serves as a companion piece to her earlier acclaimed work A Visit from the Goon Squad, following interconnected characters through their lives and technological futures.
Discussed“of course two years ago you release the candy house which picks up with some of the minor characters in goon squad and makes them into major characters”
Where to get it
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The Keep
The Keep by Jennifer Egan is a gothic thriller novel that unfolds inside an unusual prison setting and an unreal realm.
Discussed“but when as I worked on books after that I would think hm you know I wrote a Gothic novel a Gothic Thriller called the keep”
Where to get it
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In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust is a monumental multi-volume modernist novel that explores memory, time, and human consciousness.
Discussed“and I think the reason I was thinking about time was really because I had finally read in Search of Lost Time all of it byce seven volum six I think six a lot several volumes”
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Light years
Light Years is a novel by James Salter that chronicles the gradual disintegration of a marriage and the quiet passage of time.
Recommended“and also James suter's light years which is a beautiful book about time passing”
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The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is a classic novel of manners that chronicles the tragic social decline of Lily Bart, a charismatic and ambitious woman navigating the cutthroat, superficial elite society of turn-of-the-century New York.
Recommended“mine is I think the house of Mirth by Edith Warden”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Jenny Egan author of a visit from the Goon Squad and the candy house thank you so much for being on the book review podcast”
“Jenny Egan author of a visit from the Goon Squad and the candy house thank you so much for being on the book review podcast”