Jennifer Egan: A Visit From The Goon Squad
World Book Club
English - June 04, 2022 11:06 - 49 minutes - 22.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 335 ratingsSociety & Culture books culture news health business entrepreneurship interview comedy politics productivity Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Jennifer Egan answers audience questions about her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit From The Goon Squad. It's a dazzling, exciting book which plays with form and storytelling traditions. Goon Squad is made up of connected short stories circling around musician and record executive Bennie Salazar, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. It explores their pasts and catapults them into the future using a rich variety of voices and narrative styles. This special edition of World Book Club, presented by Katherine Lanpher, was recorded at Brooklyn Central Library.
(Picture: Jennifer Egan. Photo credit: Pieter M. Van Hattem.)