Jennifer Egan
The author of ‘Manhattan Beach’ on what technology is doing to our brains and why she hates memoirs.
October 26, 2017
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October 26, 2017
Jennifer Egan
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<p>Jennifer Egan is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <em>A Visit From The Goon Squad</em> and <em>Manhattan Beach</em>. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss what technology might do to fiction-writing, how she crafts her novels, and how her conception of American power has changed since 9/11.</p><p> </p><hr /><p style="color: grey; font-size: 0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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