Praise for Jennifer Egan:

"Jennifer's talk was perfectly pitched and expertly and genially delivered. The audience was clearly 'tuned in' (and I think also charmed): responsive during the presentation and enthusiastically appreciative afterward. She was incredibly generous about everything involved in this event, signing books for more than an hour after the talk, and chatting warmly with each and every person in the line. All through the reception, people came up to me to say what a terrific event it had been. I heard 'best ever' more often than I would ever have dared hope, and I know Jenny’s presentation and wonderfully friendly, natural manner had a lot to do with that."
—Bill Waddell

Northeast Modern Language Association
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Books by Jennifer Egan:

A Visit from the Goon Squad

National bestseller, 2011 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award-winner, New York Times Book Review Top Ten Books of the Year, and finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.

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Lectures & Speaking Topics

Character, From an Array of Angles
A discussion of how to create vital and authentic characters in fiction using voice, dialogue, and description. A debunking of the myth of the "consistent character." Egan will read from, and discuss, works by Jean Rhys, Robert Stone, Lorrie Moore, and Don DeLillo.
Writing Fiction in PowerPoint—An Argument for Experimentation
A discussion (with slide show) of how and why Egan came to write a chapter of her new novel in PowerPoint, and what she learned from the experience: namely, that experimentation makes it possible to tell new and different kinds of stories.
Novelist as Journalist/Journalist as Novelist
Egan will discuss how and why she become a writer of cover stories for The New York Times Magazine, and how her journalism and fiction writing have interacted and influenced each other over the years.

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