Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Eganis an American novelist and short story writer who lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Egan's novel A Visit from the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 September 1962
CountryUnited States of America
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What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art. They're a snapshot of a moment, and one should always consider their judgments in that context.
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When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he had a lot of books in his library that I would just pore over. A lot of them had really horrible pictures of deformities.
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The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh.
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He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints.
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And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.
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a swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff
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What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.
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reach isn’t describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it’s simultaneous.
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That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet.
and the question is, which one is really “you,
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and it’s all kind of moving and sweet except that you’re not completely there—a part of you is a few feet away, or above, thinking,
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Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.