A Visit from the Goon Squad – Christopher East

Novel: The Candy House by Jennifer Egan

I have a feeling certain readers will dismiss Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House (2022) based …

Fantasy, Fiction / September 12, 2020

I read Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel (2020) so quickly I had to …

Jennifer Egan continues to display keen insights into the American psyche in Manhattan Beach, a …

Fiction / April 10, 2015

In The Keep (2006), Jennifer Egan subverts her own talent by writing from the POV of …

Fiction / November 18, 2014

With three books under my belt now, I can say with authority that I’m a …

Fiction / September 1, 2014

As a long-time reader of science fiction, I frequently defend the genre as literature’s most …

If you had told me three years ago that I would have gotten this blog …

Fiction, Science Fiction / January 23, 2012

I’ve heard Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) described as a short …