The Candy House and Goon Squad are ensemble pieces that, hopefully, work in a sort of kaleidoscopic way, with many different individual stories fusing into a larger narrative that has an arc, but a looser one, like that of, say, a serialized novel or a TV programsince thats where many people get their serialization now. So the machine was an empowering tool for me as a fiction writer. Yes, so much. It was definitely one of the most difficult first-draft writing experiences that Ive had. Can I see? While working on fiction, you have sometimes also taken on journalistic assignmentsfor the Times Magazine and other places. Egenolf came to the station in late 2016 to serve as an update anchor. I would say that there are books that feel like theyre part of my literary DNA, even though someone may or may not see that while reading my work. I just thought that was the book. . In fact, I have big questions about whether writing in the impulsive and intuitive way I do is possibly incompatible with the rigors of a good crime novel, which really, in the end, is all about design. Like so many crime novels of the fifties, sixties, and seventies, theyre very dated. With a book like Manhattan Beach, which did require years of research, when it comes time to write, do you feel sort of burdened by the weight of that research and the need to incorporate it into your story? Anyway, there were good times, but then there was this refrain of fear. I reached a point where I just couldnt go on. It was actually one of the adolescent-girl stories. Photo illustration by Slate. Does that one have a contemporary setting? And there were these little signs of approval that would come along, like a handwritten nice note or sometimes even a signed name. Theres something different about this story. I thought, Well, all these paragraphs are very short, but I wasnt yet Twitter-aware enough to realize why. I dont think I was thinking I would be a writer at that point. Thats true, absolutely. . So there comes a point when he shares just his memories of this man to the collective. And its a tragedy in the Greek sense. But the curiosity partthat is where I can start to make a more individual contribution to the conversation. I mean, invisibility is a joy if you can reinhabit yourself eventually. Thats kind of what it boils down to: I had this face that reminded people of other faces, but there wasnt something striking there, which I took as a personal failure. And the big transition that she makes in that book is that she inhabits herself and her life as a real thing. Theres a former boy wonder desperate for his next brainstorm, a teenage girl agonizing over her social status, a recovering drug addict whose attempted suicide provides another man with the chance to heal an old wound. So that was one thing. I have to saydont expect that response time now! WebJennifer has been nominated for two Emmy Awards, one of which is for the coverage she provided regarding the arrest of a hospital worker in the state of New Hampshire. When I think about having to look things up in an encyclopedia from the library when I was a kid. Before that, Id spent so much time just trying to earn money. It was a crazy two months. Except that youre unusual in that you think your story wasnt real. And I had this idea that my year would be devoted to archeology. Never did I appreciate more how urgently important that was to my writing process than when I cut myself off from that possibility by writing outside of my lifetime. But the reason I kept it there is not the reason I always thought people included research in their novelsit wasnt to show off. I still dont really know. Even if there is a witch, its still an amazing thing to discover in the forest. The annual clinicRead More, ORANGE CITY, Fla. (WHDH) An alert bystander is being credited with saving an 8-months old life after a Florida mother left the baby inRead More, A dedicated 20-month-old pup is making a major difference at Franciscan Childrens Hospital in Brighton. But our mental processes aremore mysterious than we realize. EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Egans best-selling novels A Visit from the Goon Squad and its sequel The Candy House are getting the TV treatment in a big way as A24 I think maybe I was the inverse of that. I had a kind of breakthrough in Tom Jenkss class. You Must Remember This, her postwar fifties book, had a huge impact on me. Doctors at Tufts Medical Center are saying a man attacked by a shark off of Cape Cod is lucky to be alive. And its also one of the first highbrow books that I read for pleasure. Anyway, the thing that I had really been trying to do was just go to Europe with a backpack, so I did that finally. So I went and lived with Loy, and that was an absolute madhouse. What I love so much about writing journalism is that it gives me license to go marching out into the world and ask people all kinds of things and be the nosy busybody that I really am. Anyway, Uncle Loy, as I called him, introduced Kentucky Fried Chicken to Japan. What element of current technology do you think has effected the greatest change? Slate is published by The Slate Egans latest is a beautiful reminder that the literary world has not fallen prey to Hollywoods existing-IP creative drought. Vanity Fair After her fiercely spectacular A What is the appeal of that structure for you? This was a strange interlude in my life. And everyone in the workshop loved it. So people were interested, and they would say, Show me what else you have, but everything else I had was clearly not as good. People will say, Are you interested in writing a think piece about something? And Ill think, You dont understand. But I had put myself in such an isolated situation, a kind of isolation that hardly exists anymore. Ive heard other people say that they read books and thought, I can do better than that. So, for example, with modellingand it seems so laughable now because, obviously, that was not a career that made a lot of sense for mebut what it felt like was other people were real and they succeeded, and I was fake and, therefore, I failed. And the idea of those two worlds coexisting in time is really interesting to me. My moms a huge readershe taught me to read, and weve been exchanging books and book ideas ever since. He was the literary editor at GQ at that point, and he was also teaching out of his living room. So I let all of that go. . Probably page 5! That was a really hard way to live. I didnt tell anyone about them because I was so ashamed. I would bring in stories, and no one cared, and, after a page or two, Id have to stop reading. In retrospect, thank God. You think youre going to eat it, but it ends up eating you. I did not think it while looking at Twitter! That story picked up on a character from Goon Squad, much later in her life, and Im wondering if that was the gateway story for The Candy House? I thought, If I could just use facial recognition, and there were some way to view these people in the world, I could find them, and that would be great. I doubt it. Group, a Graham Holdings Company. That is a kind of catalytic discovery for him that gets him out of his house and into action. So when I got the job with the countess what it meant was that I could write from eight to noon every day, and I did. It allowed me to do certain narrative things that I knew I wanted to do. Is there something you get from journalism that you dont get from writing fiction? My first stepfather had a good friend who was this kind of wild man named Loy Weston. Maybe David Copperfield, but I think not even. But at least Id have got some work done. You said, Read it. In one form or another, yes, because I was working on my first novel, The Invisible Circus, when I joined the class that became the writing group. It becomes so easy, I think, as a middle-aged or older person, to just settle into your own experience. And that was it. So she made my life possible. And, in a way, Ive never wavered from where I was heading within the first couple of weeks of arriving there. Their emotional lives need to feel immediate and accessible. Also, Joyce Carol Oates, someone Ive read for a very long time and really admired. But, yes, it is amazing that in my first novel, The Invisible Circus, I was already reaching for the things that interest me now. I remember there was a moment when I was on the elliptical machine at the gym, reading the Merchant Marine Officers Handbook, from the nineteen-forties. I can write really fast at the beginning, and the faster the better in a way, because Im looking not to think about it too much. No, its nineteen-fifties. And I think I asked someone, Do you know the name of anyone there? And that person said, Yes, Dan Menaker. So I thought, O.K., Im going to send something to Dan Menaker, and I did. As in so many books written in the fifties and sixties, the way women are written about feels jarring to a contemporary sensibility, but its still great. Have there been any writers or books that have had a strong effect on you? Absolutely. So that was how I ended up writing my first two books. Japan and was very friendly with the world of models and modelling agents. And I guess really, at bottom, what Im reflecting on is the great technological revolution that Ive witnessed in my lifetime, being technically a baby boomerits a long generation, and Im at the tail end of it. And, when I failed, it felt like another manifestation of my lack of reality. It allowed time travel within the book. You can follow up good fortune with more work that can potentially bring more good fortune. Anyway, I was pretty conventional and ordinary as a writer, but I had one thing going for me. Tom has been a kind of pole star for me. If I keep chasing that novelty, it almost guarantees that I wont be one of those writers who gives readers the satisfaction of feeling like theyre settling into a familiar voice and approachwhich is, honestly, kind of a self-indulgence on my part, and I think it has asked a lot of my readers. He remembers Damon, and then, through facial recognition in the Collective, he is able to view other peoples memories that involve Damon. If all my dreams come true, I will publish a crime novel set in the fifties, followed by this really wacky eighteen-seventies book. Sometimes the best place to conceal the real is amid the fake, which could be the motto of fiction: the lie that tells a truth. Jennifer Egan is not only publishing a new novel but its a sibling sequel to her Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Critics Circle-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad.. Like Goon Squad, The Candy House features a cast of intersecting characters: a tech tycoon who spearheads a new era of online sharing, an anthropologist who And my then stepfather, I think, got Loy to persuade one of these modelling agents to bring me over. But I will say that I worry about what happens when theres no more solitude, because, without it, Im not sure if I would ever have figured out any of the things that have made my life great, you know? But perhaps its the members of your writing group who are your fiercest critics? That place wasnt communal the way a lot of youth hostels were. It begins with one woman seeking a private conversation with an aging movie star and spreads to nearly a dozen participants, each trading favors to get what he or she wants, a web of transactions that ultimately results in the joyous reunion of the Conduits, a rock band that appears in Goon Squad, and a documentary film. If you think about the eighteen-seventies, its basically the beginning of the Gilded Age, and yet none of that stuff existed yet. Ive settled on the eighteen-seventies because it strikes me as the last decade before all the inventions that we think of as twentieth-century, though really theyre not: widespread camera use, widespread combustion-engine use, incandescent light. But I did have an interest in the elliptical storytelling and the serialization that I saw unfolding on Twitter. Her formal invention, her willingness to try anything, her attention to language, and also the way her books are full of ideas, and shes grappled with eras. The person who narrates the 1965 chapter, which describes how four young bankers leapt into the counterculture at a pot farm in the redwoods, is the daughter of one of the men. So that all felt really close to me, and I used my itinerary from my doomed European trip, which I had documented so extensively in my journal. Its a historical novel set in Brooklyn during the Second World War, and it required a huge amount of research. So I really was extremely focussed. What are they saying? To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. But, if I had to pick one novel that has meant more to me than any other, it would be The House of Mirth, no question. In terms of style, I dont know. Our consciousness is not like a camera. But my feeling is always: Why not try to do all of it and more? That seems so artificial. My moms. WebMeet the anchors, reporters and meteorologists of KING5 in Seattle, Washington It allowed me to write both from the perspective of looking back at the past and from the perspective of the future. The title of the book is clearly a warning, but I also think of it as more neutral. I felt that other people were always doing things better than I was. So when I decided that I wanted to write it was never with a sense of the tremendous potential that I would unleash on the world. Theres another one that Im hoping to publish first, which Im a little stuck on, but Im still hammering away. Being made of imagination, it offers a portal to another universe, much like each of the chapters in Egans novel. The modelling thing was not going anywhere. At one point, he stole a bride away from her own wedding. Its now 2010, and he finds himself back at the East River at midnight, in the same spot where he stood with his friends all those years ago, and he is kind of flabbergasted to realize that he cannot remember much at all about that morning in 1993. But to go to college before having an answering machine and then to witness whats happened since has been absolutely staggering. So that would have to be one book out. Theres such a tendency to privilege ones own story and think that somehow everyone else has to have that story, too, and I dont want to make that mistake. The protagonist is new. How did you decide which characters from Goon Squad to explore in The Candy House? I wanted to be a famous model, and thank God I did so badly at it, because would I have walked away from more success in that realm? One of them, much revised, ended up in my first collection. If you go to a graveyard and see how many women were dying in their twenties, probably in childbirth. Its not polemical. Her solution is to camouflage it by filling the house with Mondrian merch: candleholders, vases, umbrellas, tea trays, glasses, place mats, towels, throw pillows, framed posters, coffee-table books, and a needlepoint footstool. No one, she explains, with a legit Mondrian would ever acquire such crap.. I know for sure that Im smarter if Im writing., Photographs by Thea Traff for The New Yorker, private secretary to the Countess of Romanones. It just insisted on moving more slowly. Whats the problem? But I was assiduously sending out my stories. Jennifer Eagan Husband She is happily married to her dia husband called Jason Law. The couple tied the knot on June 2, 2019. Just like Jennifer, Jason also works as a reporter as well as weekend anchor at Boston 25 News. I love eavesdropping on people. Marcus the blackLabrador Retriever received a warm welcome Wednesday afternoonRead More, A Boston police sergeant dog-sat a black lab from out of town as a family on vacation dealt with a medical emergency at Boston ChildrensRead More, ANTHEM, Ariz. (WHDH) A puppy is on the mend after jumping in front of a rattlesnake to protect his owner in Arizona Friday. It was partly just thoughts about objectification that had arisen from modelling, but had also been substantiated when I studied literary theory in college. He was a straitlaced businessman who was madly in love with his wife. But sometimes the limitations actually feel bizarrely freeing, and I have this sense of possibility and opening and a voice that can continue. Egan isnt especially interested in spinning out all the potential ramifications of the Collective Consciousness, which are considerable and bit distracting. I really think of arriving at Penn as the beginning of being me. The uploading and sharing part, called the Collective Consciousness, was more of an afterthought, but as is often the way with new tech, it soon became the main attraction. I think I was a strange young person. Lorsque vous utilisez nos sites et applications, nous utilisons des, authentifier les utilisateurs, appliquer des mesures de scurit, empcher les spams et les abus; et. And when I brought in this chapter, with its bells and whistles, they at first gently informed me that it was not really to their liking, and then more stridently said that when my narrator got, you know, ironic and winky with the reader they became angry. In a way, my books are very different from one another, but I think the idea content is a real throughline. Then I had a scholarship to go to England and study at Cambridge. At the same time, I was looking for some kind of writing class, because I clearly needed help. What was bad about working with the countess was that she had a hot temper and could be abusive. Its so true. When did it first occur to you that writing might be what youd do with your life? Moving back in time to the years between Goon Squad and The Candy House: in 2017, you published Manhattan Beach, which is a very different kind of novel. I would say for Goon Squad and The Candy House that about fifty per cent of the first drafts I wrote were unusable. You get an encyclopedia. And they threw in the Great Books. Well, I always think of antibiotics. mesurer votre utilisation de nos sites et applications. We have the experience and we respond, and I think theres a great triage that occurs with reading aloud, where people just naturally go to the most important things. It was that I was so enamored of these details that I had a really hard time recognizing the difference between the level of my interest and the possible level of the readers interest. I think my whole generation has been so shaped by his work. So, with Manhattan Beach, I thought, Well, Im not going to just write a novel set in the past. In the nineteenth century, Im an Anthony Trollope freak, but I didnt actually come to Trollope until the last few years, at my moms suggestion, so I cant claim that as literary DNA. When we meet him in The Candy House, he has invented social media. I think there was an advantage to having pretty low expectations for myself, and having the wish to write come more from a sense that it would complete my experience of reality than that it would bring me acknowledgement from the outside world. Its deeply problematic from the standpoint of sexual mores and violence against women. I guess that, in a way, it reproduces that feeling of not being real and thinking that other people were more real, which really was painful but has also left me with something that I value, which is a willingness to kind of forget who I am while hearing about the experiences of other people. I still dont. I had to start over, honestly. Tell Hank: (855) 247-HANK. Its so easy to say. At that point, I wasnt thinking about Twitter anymore. In early 2003 I lived on the same street as Jennifer Egan, and, knowing her not really at all, but admiring her a lot, Id mailed my second book to her house, praying shed feel some vague neighborliness toward me and donate, to my sorry cause, a blurb. I was working on them at the same time, the story collection and the novel. Our conversations have been edited and condensed. Please try again. And I think that approach was exactly what I needed. The Slate Group LLC. Things felt very fragmented to me. Youre kind of describing the process of reading fiction. It was so useful later to have all that documentation. But back then I was awed and amazed by everything around me, and I actually felt that I was not a real person for a lot of my early life. I realized that Phils focus was on getting at emotional truth, which, in a way, matters more than anything else. Theres no, you know, not quite having time and sort of fudging it slightly, or fixating on little things instead of big things. WebJoin Morning Show Producer Jill Egan at Centennial Park West Summer Concert Series 97.1fm The Drive WDRV Chicago NOW PLAYING SISTER CHRISTIAN NIGHT RANGER Drive Events This event has passed. One chapter mentions that thousands of abusers have been convicted based on the evidence of their victims externalized memories, viewed as film in courtrooms, leaving the wider impact on criminal justice, among other institutions, a tantalizing mystery. So theres already this possibility of mental content being shared technologically. I know. That sounds so weird. Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what youre like isnt who you are. But then I think that all that is really boring. The Internet seems dangerous to me. Si vous ne souhaitez pas que nos partenaires et nousmmes utilisions des cookies et vos donnes personnelles pour ces motifs supplmentaires, cliquez sur Refuser tout. He felt bad about it and hoped it was normal. I have taught another book I absolutely loved as a teen-ager, Manchild in the Promised Land, by Claude Brown. In fact, unless someone named Deborah Treisman occasionally asks me to write a personal essay, I really dont even attempt it. Let people know whats coming. But no one knew I had sent it. My mom had a friend, a guy named Blair Fuller, who had been involved with The Paris Review as a younger man. It had to have been a fluke of timing. I gleaned this device and its various properties more from first-draft material that I started writing in those early years, from 2010 to 2013. But it turned out that those tricks were ineffectual and actually irritating. Jennifer Egan. Its also a painful process. All you need to know is that I was born in 1962. Another book I pulled from her shelves was James Baldwins Another Country. I absolutely loved that novel, which I reread recently. Is that a matter of principle or just how it works for you? I read a lot of Shakespeare in England, and his storytelling abilities, putting aside the poetry and all the rest of it, were just so extraordinary. Witnessing all these differently motivated agendas gradually coalesce into a creative force is an exhilarating delight. Lin-Manuel Miranda goes in search of lost time. Do you feel that you need to keep your style evolving? In Goon Squad, Bix was a grad student in electrical engineering. Si vous souhaitez personnaliser vos choix, cliquez sur Grer les paramtres de confidentialit. And then, actually, a critical element in that process was buying a notebook with eight rectangles on every page so that suddenly I was writing inside these small boxes, and that really helped me. I think my failure ratio is higher with this kind of book than with any other. Then I worked with another writer, Tom Jenks, who is also still teaching. Which was a sign that finally I had found an approach that made sense for the material that I wanted to write about. Ive always loved crime novels, but I havent really let myself read them that much for a couple of reasons. I guess the definition of a panic attack is that youre afraid because youre afraid because youre afraid. The feeling of being unreal compared with other people is, if anything, worse now. The people who shot out of the gate, full of promise, sometimes didnt follow through fully. Storyteller, Producer, Adventurer, Fan of People All rights reserved. And then I tried to write a novel, which was absolutely terrible, but I think my problem was more that I had not figured out what my method was yet. Which do we prefer? It was this little room on an empty hallway in a modern high-rise. It was kind of like that. Then I will walk away, but often I try quite a few things before I get to that point, because Im still, you know, waiting to see if some other approach might come to my aid. I think it was just what we would call anxiety, you know? It used to be frightening, because I thought that I might disappear altogether. One took place as a New Yorker Live event, on Zoom, in June, 2022. Lou Kline is running his record company with the help of his two daughters, and, in 1999, Napster comes along, and everyone realizes that it is going to be a disaster for the music industry. So its been essential for me. She was an inspiration for Agatha Christie and a very successful novelist in her day. I want you to write a story that has no kids in it and nothing about the past. I remember thinking, You really have some nerve. I think theres probably a little bit too much of my research in that book. We all have passing encounters in our lives that leave a memory but not enough of one to flesh out with any sort of information, and I kept thinking about how I could do that. I joined a workshop with Philip Schultzthe Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, who now has a kind of institute called the Writers Studio. April 16, 2022, 11:07 AM. grant. We encountered an issue signing you up. J. Smith-Cameron knows what everyone thinks about Gerri. Egan thinks otherwise, maintaining that knowing everything is too much like knowing nothing; without a story, its all just information. Forming it into a narrative is living (even if, as with Didion, the story you tell about yourself is that youre a neurasthenic cynic above such consolations). But I also thought I was a mentally ill person, and was going to spend my life in institutions. I was so alone. Its present in almost all of your novelsideas about image culture, about beauty, about terrorism. So I think my house would have to be covered with hard candy: shiny, delicious nonfood. And Im so happy, actually, that I was like that, because I ended up having so many encounters and conversations that I wouldnt have had otherwise. And I think the reason that I dont write about myself or people I know, ironically, is that I cannot identify with us on the page. My favorite candy is definitely Snickers, but what I found myself thinking about with The Candy House, especially as we searched for a cover, is that candy can actually be very beautiful. I dont really have to keep that much straight because I dont have much of a plan. It fuelled this constant desire for information. I would try to write five to seven pages of each project each day, and Im actually doing the same thing nowtrying to write five to seven pages a day of two very different projects. Of course, the show was taped. I feel so grateful to the ones who stick with me. So I did that. But its funnythe people I met in my dorm hallway are my best friends to this day. Im thinking a lot about the nineteenth century right now, the eighteen-seventies in particular, and about what catastrophic loss most people had experienced by adulthood at that time, and how different that must have been from now. The only frame I had was drug use and the fear of having destroyed my brain. The subject feels inexhaustible because the technology keeps changing. Is that intentional? Its a little like pruning: you prune to encourage growth in new ways, and I try to prune my own habits to keep growing and getting better. Anyway, I assigned it to my class at Penn, having not reread it, and my T.A.s were horrified at first. I think some of that was that I felt that Id been over-rewarded for Goon Squad, and I feared a kind of comeuppancethat, coupled with the fact that I was doing the thing that I felt least qualified to do, because one thing Ive realized over time is that, although I dont write about myself or people I know, the physical environments I rely on are ones that I remember. It had more ideas in it. And I guess all of it speaks to the main thing I feel, which is that incremental success is absolutely the way to go, because that way you dont get ahead of yourself. It is related, but Im not sure how exactly. With you, if I read a page of Manhattan Beach and I read a page of The Candy House side by side, I would not know that they were by the same writer. But Egan is after more than a cautionary tale; she is interested in describing social technology as a lived environment. He gave me an introduction to George Plimpton, whom I dont think I had any real contact with, but someone in his office said, Were having a party, come. The Paris Review had what I guess are now these storied parties. He was not a gorgeous guyvery short, sort of funny-looking, but all swagger. In order to write about my characters, I have to identify with them completely, and by that I mean that their choices need to feel not only viable and logical but, from their point of view, actually essential. He was a real playboy. I wanted success violently. So that was a major career leap, although, as with every career leap I have experienced, there was a kind of difficult aftermath. 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