Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan is the author of The Invisible Circus, which was released as a feature film by Fine Line in 2001, Emerald City and Other Stories, Look at Me, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 2001, and the bestselling The Keep. Her new book, A Visit From the Goon Squad, a national bestseller, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the LA Times Book Prize. Also a journalist, she writes frequently in the New York Times Magazine.

Join us in the Square Books cafe for an intimate signing with Jennifer Egan. After Square Books, Egan will be speaking on campus at Bondurant Auditorium at 7 p.m.

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“A reading experience like none other-a shimmering library of possible truths and forking pathways…Readers of this extraordinary novel become Villars’ co-biographers, piecing through ‘official’ and underground accounts as ample (and as unreliable) as the human library of memory. I was addicted to this book.” Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia “An engrossing literary mystery…Refracting the vivid, villainous life of Louisianne Villars through letters, memoirs, and the recreations of a biographer, Prose coaxes into kaleidoscopic view both a tortured human being and bohemian Paris before and during the Nazi occupation… she cleverly exploits the vain, self-serving nature of memory itself.” Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Visit From the Goon Squad Francine Prose is the author of many bestselling books of fiction, including A Changed Man and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the nonfiction New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. Her novel, Household Saints, was adapted for a movie by Nancy Savoca. Another novel, The Glorious Ones, has been adapted into a musical of the same name by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, which ran at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City in the Fall of 2007. Her latest novel, Goldengrove, was published in September 2008. She is the president of PEN American Center. She lives in New York City.

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LITWITS BOOK GROUP

Anderson’s welcomes the LitWits Book Group, designed for those who love to read, meet new people and like to have fun. Our new pick for discussion is A Visit From the Goon Squad , by Jennifer Egan. Please read the book, and join our lively discussion. New members are invited to participate, but are asked to please call and register: (630) 963-2665. TUESDAY, MAY 21 at 7:30 p.m. Anderson's Bookshop Downers Grove 5112 Main Street, Downers Grove

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LITWITS BOOK GROUP

Anderson’s welcomes the LitWits Book Group, designed for those who love to read, meet new people and like to have fun. Our new pick for discussion is A Visit From the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan. Please read the book, and join our lively discussion. New members are invited to participate, but are asked to please call and register: (630) 963-2665. TUESDAY, APRIL 16 at 7:30 p.m. Anderson’s Bookshop Downers Grove 5112 Main St., Downers Grove

Location: Street: Anderson's Bookshop Downers Grove Additional: 5112 Main St City: Downers Grove, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60515 Country: United States (tilføjet fra IndieBound)… (mere)

Readings and performances by Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Paul Auster, Joseph O'Neill, Rick Moody, Fiona Robinson, John Bemelmans Marciano, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Téa Obreht, Teju Cole, Ayad Akhtar, Cecily von Ziegesar, and Sarah Vowell.

Powerhouse Arena sustained major damages during Hurricane Sandy. Support our recovery at this day of readings, refreshments, signings, and book browsing.

Local authors, artists, editors, and publications also in attendance: Adrian Tomine, Leanne Shapton, Rob Spillman, Benjamin Samuel, Ben Wallace, Megan Abbot, Peter Brown, Jane Mendelsohn, Lucinda Rosenfeld, Stephen O'Connor, Brett Helquist, Brian Floca, Sophie Blackall, The Village Voice, Armchair/Shotgun, Electric Literature, and Tin House. (lampbane)… (mere)

Join us at Smart Books for Smart Women, a female only book club that reads and discusses a wide range of books from popular fiction to interesting biographies. This is a free bookclub with no registration necessary. The club meets in the third Tuesday of every month. Hope to see you there. Next Meeting: Tuesday, June 19th at 6:30 pm

Discussing: A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Book Description:

One of the Best Books of the Year: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast, The Miami Herald, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Newsday, NPR's On Point, O, the Oprah Magazine, People, Publishers Weekly, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Slate, Time, The Washington Post, and Village Voice

Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, A Visit From the Goon Squad is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption. Upcoming Smart Books Picks. . . Digg Facebook Google Technorati del.icio.us

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This month our book is A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. You may purchase your copy from Viva at a 15% book-club discount. You may buy your lunch from Vegeria Vegan Cuisine to enjoy while we discuss this book. Newcomers are always welcome!

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Tuesday, April 10, 7:30 PM Angela Davis-Gardner discusses her book, Butterfly’s Child, with novelist Jennifer Egan

In honor of the paperback launch, novelist Angela Davis-Gardner comes to Greenlight Bookstore to discuss Butterfly’s Child with Pultizer Prize-winning author and fan Jennifer Egan (A Visit From the Goon Squad). When three-year-old Benji is plucked from the security of his home in Nagasaki to live with his American father, Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, and stepmother, Kate, on their farm in Illinois, the family conceals Benji's true identity as a child born from a liaison between an officer and a geisha--and instead tells everyone that he is an orphan. When the truth surfaces, it will splinter this family's fragile dynamic and send Benji on the journey of a lifetime from Illinois to the Japanese settlements in Denver and San Francisco, then across the ocean to Nagasaki, where he will uncover the truth about his mother's tragic death. To celebrate the paperback release of Butterfly’s Child, Greenlight Bookstore will offer 30% off the retail price of this title on Tuesday, April 10th. A wine and cheese reception will follow the reading and discussion.

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