Jennifer Egan

500 Posts!

by Chris East on January 28, 2012

If you had told me three years ago that I would have gotten this blog to 500 posts, I don’t think I would have believed you.  But here we are:  five hundred posts of wordy review-y media junkie pop culture goodness, awwww yeah!  As it turns out, not giving a shit about whether people give [...]

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Novel : A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

by Chris East on January 23, 2012

I’ve heard Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) described as a short story collection disguised as a novel, but I absolutely disagree.  While it does possess a unique mosaic structure – each chapter a self-contained story with a different viewpoint – there is a single, coherent throughline to the book, entirely thematic, [...]

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