She arrived from her Pilates session with a grocery bag in each hand to take on the subway home to Fort Greene, where she lives with her husband and two sons, aged 7 and 9.Įgan is an iconoclastic and original fiction writer, hewing to her own genre-bending path and creating fresh starts with each new book. I sat down with her the next day at the Aroma Espresso Bar on West 72nd Street. “Remaining a pop phenomenon for 20 years without dying or lapsing into self-parody is quite a feat.” (Tidbit: When she was writing her first sex scenes, in her coming-of-age first novel, The Invisible Circus, a friend suggested some models, with page numbers: Sex at a wedding in The Godfather, and an eight-page sex scene in Ken Follett’s Lie Down With Lions.)ĭressed in a stylish sleeveless floor-length dress, the willowy Egan walked in 90-degree heat from the Javits Center to a rooftop West Village penthouse cocktail party, where she chatted amiably into the night. At two, she discussed writing about sex with Granta editor John Freeman. One day she gave a tightly timed seven-minute talk (with 20 slides, and a strict 21-second limit per slide) about how she wrote a section of her new book, A Visit From the Goon Squad, in PowerPoint (You can watch her presentation and check out the section, “Great Rock and Roll Pauses”), The next day at noon, she talked about audiobooks for half an hour onstage with NPR’s Michelle Norris. Jennifer Egan was center stage through much of the recent Book Expo America in New York.
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