Been working on this for the past year. Thanks to the amazing folks on all sides of this issue who gave me time, trust, and frankness, and to
@NewYorker
, which gave me space to tell the story.
Could not have written a single one of my books without NYC libraries and the glorious, generous people who work in them. Strong libraries are a sign of civic health, and one of our best chances of sustaining it!
#NLWD19
This National Library Workers day, we join
@nypl
in calling for more funding for NYC's public libraries, one of the city's most vital resources.
#NLWD19
I’ve been imagining beyond GOON SQUAD for a decade, hoping my meanderings would coalesce into a new and independent work. THE CANDY HOUSE comes out 4/5/22. Thank you, my readers, for giving me heart and spurring me on. via
@publisherswkly
Surreally thrilling to meet and introduce legendary rock goddess Patti Smith, the polestar of my teenage years, as part of
@PENworldvoices
!! She is as kind, humble and exemplary a human as I could have dreamed--and an amazing writer.
#OneBookNY
@SymphonySpace
@PENamerican
BREAKING: In a blow to President Trump's attacks on the press, a federal court today ruled that our lawsuit against the president can proceed. He has used the powers of government to retaliate against journalists, and we look forward to our day in court.
"Why toddlers are suddenly the tastemakers in music." Jennifer Egan predicted this in her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, but I never thought it would actually happen.
Toni Morrison’s work exemplifies the way in which fiction can impact human life. By inviting us inside her characters’ consciousnesses, she delighted, illuminated, and transformed her readers—and thereby our culture.
Very excited that a Fresh Air segment I recorded weeks ago has finally just aired!! For Novelist Jennifer Egan, 'The Joy Of Writing Is Being Delivered Out Of My Life'
On this week's episode of the Writer's Voice podcast, Jennifer Egan reads her story “What the Forest Remembers,” from the January 3 & 10, 2022, issue of the magazine.
Happy
#InternationalWomensDay
all 💪
And congratulations to the 16 writers who are waking up today as
#WomensPrize
longlisted authors! Discover the longlist here:
The moment when
@Reuters
reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo walked free outside Myanmar's Insein prison after receiving a presidential pardon. More here:
Thrilling, heartening news. Best birthday present I could have asked for. Thank you,
@Polina_Kovaleva
, for your furious and unremitting efforts on behalf of Oleg Sentsov and so many other writers and artists who are being silenced. We're lucky to have you at
@PENamerica
!!!
For 12 years, I’ve worked with genius creators Spencer Hansen and
@NoahScalin
on my websites. The CANDY HOUSE, launched today—pub day!!—tops them all. Hover over page 1 of each chapter to see a typewritten markup, and below that, its handwritten origin.
Thrilled to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and journalist, Jennifer Egan (
@Egangoonsquad
), for our monthly Comptroller’s Brown Bag Lunch! 📚
Over lunch, we discussed her powerful year-long reporting on homelessness and housing in NYC published in
@NewYorker
.
#NationalLibraryWeek
begins today! Without libraries and librarians, MANHATTAN BEACH wouldn't have come close to existing. Celebrate these magical institutions and the people who work in them!
@SSEdLib
#nlwd18
#NLW18
"The New York Public Library has some bragging rights to the city’s most popular book of 2018: Manhattan Beach took shape thanks to research author Jennifer Egan did right in its halls."
#TopCheckouts
Always a joy to visit--and teach at--my beloved alma mater,
@Penn
!!! Part of my not-so-secret agenda to make every undergrad become an English major.
@PennEnglish
Friends and Readers! Please help MANHATTAN BEACH become the One Book, One New York Read by voting here: It takes ONE SECOND (really!) New York inspired this book and I'm hoping NY will read it!!!
@vulture
@OneBookNY
@nytimes
@nypl
@MadeinNY
Author & journalist Jennifer Egan will teach a
@PennEnglish
literature course in the spring semester as an Artist-in-Residence in
@PennSAS
. Egan is a Penn alumna & winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
@PennAlumni
@Egangoonsquad
Holiday Offer: happy to personalize any books ordered from
@greenlightbklyn
, including MANHATTAN BEACH. Store will ship w/o sales tax outside NY. Holiday inscriptions likely to include silly drawings unless you say not to! HC GOON SQUADs also in stock.
Please join me TONIGHT for a
@VintageAnchor
virtual book club to celebrate GOON SQUAD's 10-year anniversary. Looking forward to talking with
@Jbrekkie
at 7pm EST. Free and open to all:
Jennifer Egan resurrects key characters from her 2010 modern classic for its sibling The Candy House (April 5), another multi-narrator masterpiece about searching for meaning in a crazy world. Here, an excerpt about Sasha.
Jennifer Egan’s ambitious new novel — a sequel, of sorts, to 2010’s “A Visit From the Goon Squad” — riffs on memory, authenticity and the allure of new technology.
"You can only write regularly if you’re willing to write badly. You can’t write regularly and well. One should accept bad writing as a way of priming the pump, a warm-up exercise that allows you to write well."― Jennifer Egan Happy birthday,
@Egangoonsquad
🎂🎈
Manhattanites!! Come celebrate
#IndieBookstoreDay
and say hello on this rainy Saturday at
@mcnallyjackson
's new Rockefeller Center store!! 1 Rockefeller Plaza. I'll be there from 2-3pm.
Back atcha,
@EmilyMandel
!!! It’s been hard to resist snatching a copy of Sea of Tranquility as I’ve pre-signed in various bookstore back rooms in our neighborhood. Will buy my legal copy today—can’t wait!
An image from my new website, , which allows you to excavate back to the first draft of the first paragraph of each chapter of THE CANDY HOUSE. Made by geniuses
@spencer_d_h
and
@NoahScalin
.
@simple_thread
PEN America's new report about the loss of
#localnews
coverage in the United States calls for a radical rethinking of local journalism as a public good. Read the report at and learn more about what we can do to address this critical issue.
Why did it take novelist
@Egangoonsquad
seven years to write “Manhattan Beach”? She makes 40-50 drafts per chapter and shows them to a writing group she’s been working with for decades.
In the lead up to
#Election2020
, it's up to ALL of us to stop the spread of
#disinformation
. Learn how to spot it, check it & stop it with PEN America by watching the full version of this video at & heading to .
#WhatToExpect2020
Holiday offer: I'll sign and personalize any books bought at my beloved
@greenlightbklyn
. Hardcover option for GOON SQUAD and MANHATTAN BEACH. Inscription requests go in "comments" tab online. GL will send anywhere in the USA; no sales tax outside NYS.
Posting this one more time before Hanukah ends and Xmas begins...support
@greenlightbklyn
, a splendid independent bookstore and a crucial part of our neighborhood!
Holiday Offer: happy to personalize any books ordered from
@greenlightbklyn
, including MANHATTAN BEACH. Store will ship w/o sales tax outside NY. Holiday inscriptions likely to include silly drawings unless you say not to! HC GOON SQUADs also in stock.
Friends and fans of MANHATTAN BEACH, please share!!! This is the last week of voting for
#OneBookNY
. Anyone, anywhere, can vote--as often as you like. Help MB become a city-wide read in the very boroughs that inspired it.
@ScribnerBooks
This diver at
@BklynNavyYard
in 1909 stands on the cusp of a revolution. While this suit will allow him to reach 60 feet, soon new techniques and the Mk.V diving suit will let him dive 10 times deeper. Take a “deep dive” into diving at the Yard in
@Egangoonsquad
’s
#ManhattanBeach
🌟"Twisting through myriad points of view...
@Egangoonsquad
proves herself as perceptive an interpreter of the necessity of human connection as ever & her vision is as irresistible as the tech she describes...Egan’s best yet."
#TheCandyHouse
@PublishersWkly
I have not said enough yet about this astonishing epic poem, which I read in a state of electrified amazement. We will all be reading
@ericadawsonpoet
in years to come; treat yourself and get started. Just published by
@Tin_House
Thank you, NYers, for reading a novel our city inspired! And thank you,
@MadeinNY
and
@ScribnerBooks
, for making extra copies available at public libraries in all five boroughs!
@nypl