Novelist Jennifer Egan to Appear at 'Berg
Jennifer Egan, the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner in fiction for her novel A Visit From the Goon Squad, will give a reading at Muhlenberg College on Wednesday, November 9 at 7:30 p.m. in Miller Forum, Moyer Hall.Monday, October 31, 2011 09:58 AM
The reading is sponsored by the English Department and will be followed by a question and answer session and a book signing. This event is free and open to the public.
A Visit From the Goon Squad is comprised of 13 narratives revolving around the stories of Bennie Salazar, an aging record executive and former punk rocker, and Sasha, the troubled young woman he employs. The Pulitzer Prize judges have called the novel “an inventive investigation in growing up and growing old in the digital age.” The novel has won a number of other awards, including the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and the LA Times Book Prize. HBO is now adapting the novel into a television series.
Egan is also the author of The Invisible Circus, which was released as a feature film in 2001, Emerald City and Other Stories, Look at Me, and The Keep. Her short stories have appeared in numerous magazines, including The New Yorker and Harpers, and her non-fiction articles are frequently published in The New York Times Magazine. Egan is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library.
