Episode · The Book Review · 2022-04-29
Jennifer Egan on The Book Review: books mentioned (Apr 2022)
Jennifer Egan Talks About 'The Candy House'
Gilbert Cruz discussed The Candy House by Jennifer Egan and A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. Jennifer Egan discussed Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan. Alexandra Jacobs discussed The Palace Papers by Tina Brown and The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown. Also mentioned: The Queue by Vladimir Sorokin, Their Four Hearts by Владимир Георгиевич Сорокин and others, Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin, Telluria by Владимир Георгиевич Сорокин, and Blue Lard by Vladimir Sorokin and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Candy House
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan is a compelling novel that functions as a structural sequel to A Visit from the Goon Squad, exploring themes of memory, technology, and interconnected lives.
Discussed“Jennifer Egan talks about the candy house her sequel of sorts”
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel told in a series of fragmentary, interconnected vignettes exploring time, music, ambition, and memory.
Discussed“Jennifer Egan talks about the candy house her sequel of sorts to her Pulitzer priz winning novel a visit from the Goon Squad”
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Manhattan Beach
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan is a historical fiction novel set against the backdrop of wartime New York through a noir lens, exploring the experiences of Americans during a time of immense national power.
Discussed“my last book Manhattan Beach was in some ways more self-contained and that it had a discreet group of characters whose stories I was following”
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Their Four Hearts
Discussed“one of them is therefore Hearts which I mentioned it's about these four archetypal Soviet Heroes who are sent on this pointless mission that involves all kinds of violence and degradation and really some of the most grotesque things I've ever read”
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Day of the Oprichnik
Discussed“so there's the day of the pitnick which is probably his most overtly political book”
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Telluria
Discussed“and one of his books that is coming out this year also in translation for the first time is Toria and that's also set in a futuristic Russia Europe that has devolved into these feudal medieval States”
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Blue Lard
Discussed“some of the ones that are coming out include blue lard which features a sex scene between clones of Stalin and kushev and landed soken with a charge of obscenity and distributing pornography which was later dropped”
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The Palace Papers
Discussed“I reviewed Tina Brown's hotly anticipated book about the Royals the palace papers and this is her second book on the Royals”
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The Diana Chronicles
Discussed“obviously her first book was the Diana Chronicles which I also reviewed back in ancient times at the New York Observer and that was more or less a biography”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“she is the author of several novels including look at me and Manhattan Beach”
“she is the author of several novels including look at me and Manhattan Beach”