In her own words

David Blackburn

Tuesday, 10th May 2011

As I wrote before the Easter break, Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad is a captivating novel. Reviewers are clamouring at its brilliance, but I agree with Will Blythe of the New York Times that it is 'unclassifiably elaborate'. You should believe the hype, but I can't quite say why. Here is Egan in conversation with Steve Bertrand. (She describes her methods and the life of the book, but she also reveals some of Kindle's shortcomings.)

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