Their lives were what life was supposed to be, and my life was kind of an echo of that. It doesnt come easily to me. During the actual process of writing something, you dont always realize that its inert. I feel alienated from characters like me. The way it worked was that he had quite a few people in the workshop, and anyone could bring in work. It allowed me to write both from the perspective of looking back at the past and from the perspective of the future. We update links when possible, Lin-Manuel Miranda goes in search of lost time. It allowed me to do certain narrative things that I knew I wanted to do. I dont really have to keep that much straight because I dont have much of a plan. All rights reserved. And, when I wrote Black Box as a series of tweets, I was not good at using Twitter at all. You can learn an unbelievable amount about people without even going to a whole lot of trouble. And then I also have people who read whole drafts and an editor whos incredibly helpful as well. The modelling thing was not going anywhere. You can follow up good fortune with more work that can potentially bring more good fortune. My mom had a friend, a guy named Blair Fuller, who had been involved with The Paris Review as a younger man. Is there something you get from journalism that you dont get from writing fiction? So that was how I ended up writing my first two books. Slate may earn an affiliate commission. Like Goon Squad, The Candy House comes together in pieces. But, to me, it was just enthralling at that point. Its present in almost all of your novelsideas about image culture, about beauty, about terrorism. And repeatedly I thought, Maybe I just need to walk away from this. I want you to write a story that has no kids in it and nothing about the past. I remember thinking, You really have some nerve. Yes. And, somehow, I came home feeling quite sure that writing was the thing I had to do. I would say that there are books that feel like theyre part of my literary DNA, even though someone may or may not see that while reading my work. Sunbeam Television Corp Well, I had curiosity. Jennifer Egan is not only publishing a new novel but its a sibling sequel to her Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Critics Circle-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad.. Like Goon Squad, The Candy House features a cast of intersecting characters: a tech tycoon who spearheads a new era of online sharing, an anthropologist who Egan isnt especially interested in spinning out all the potential ramifications of the Collective Consciousness, which are considerable and bit distracting. The feeling of being unreal compared with other people is, if anything, worse now. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. Theres such a tendency to privilege ones own story and think that somehow everyone else has to have that story, too, and I dont want to make that mistake. I realized, like, we have a problem here because the whole point of not pursuing a career was to have time to write, but trying to survive in New York on menial jobs ended up taking all day, every day. He appears basically in just one scene, and that is set in 1993, when, after partying all night with a couple of his N.Y.U. Its emotionally wrenching, and yet it also has a kind of coolness to it. The person who narrates the 1965 chapter, which describes how four young bankers leapt into the counterculture at a pot farm in the redwoods, is the daughter of one of the men. That sounds so weird. But my feeling is always: Why not try to do all of it and more? . He gave me an introduction to George Plimpton, whom I dont think I had any real contact with, but someone in his office said, Were having a party, come. The Paris Review had what I guess are now these storied parties. Send me updates about Slate special offers. Which is not unusual, or definitely wasnt then. I am not interesting enough to write a think piece because my thinking happens through writing. WebNews Team Connect Jennifer Eagan is an anchor and general assignment reporter at WCVB Channel 5, Boston's News Leader. I love that feeling. And the thing that I could not understand as a younger writerand its even worse now with social mediais that theres this transcendent effect that quote-unquote success seems to have, like, Oh, my God, Im ascending. I dont know if I can fully explain how, but the ways in which I see some of that thinking manifested in that story, and theres a slightlyI dont want to say a meta aspect to it, too, but it just felt like a more overtly intellectual story. Can we talk more about that? A nineteenth-century writer I read earlier whom I admired and thought about a lot was mile Zolaespecially his journalistic approach to fiction in Germinal, which is both an indictment of the horrors of a coal miners existence and just a great novel. I feel like I am more myself on the page than I am any other way. I didnt start writing Manhattan Beach before Goon Squad, but I was researching itwhich is a good thing, because the Second World War era is now truly vanishing from living memory. I know the point of view of the person whos been the victim of a robbery, but it was really fun to imagine the point of view of the person committing the theft. But it really helped me. When I was first married, it felt like, Thats what you do when youre married. Although the book is a kind of sequel to Egans Pulitzer-winning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, from 2010, it takes place in a changed world, one dominated by technologies that in the earlier book had not even been conceived of. When did it first occur to you that writing might be what youd do with your life? The only frame I had was drug use and the fear of having destroyed my brain. People will say, Are you interested in writing a think piece about something? And Ill think, You dont understand. William Lytton wentRead More, TAOS, N.M. (AP) The father of a 3-year-old boy found dead in a filthy New Mexico compound and his partner pleaded not guilty WednesdayRead More, An autistic teenage boy crashed an ambulance Thursday night, sending three people to the hospital, police said. I remember there was a moment when I was on the elliptical machine at the gym, reading the Merchant Marine Officers Handbook, from the nineteen-forties. It gets very hard because of the sexism, but I think I may try. But then I think that all that is really boring. I finally wrote a story that Phil let me finish reading, and I was so astonished when he said, Keep going, that I cried in the workshop. There was a period where I think I would have said, Well, I love lyrical writing. I feel so grateful to the ones who stick with me. One of their leaders, Chris Salazar, is the son of Bennie Salazar, a central character from Goon Squad. So the bottom line was: I didnt publish a book until I was thirty-two. And The Candy House, which is set in the not-so-distant future, revolves around a new form of technology. And I think the reason that I dont write about myself or people I know, ironically, is that I cannot identify with us on the page. In early 2003 I lived on the same street as Jennifer Egan, and, knowing her not really at all, but admiring her a lot, Id mailed my second book to her house, praying shed feel some vague neighborliness toward me and donate, to my sorry cause, a blurb. I mean, if we cant figure out how to cure mental illness, we clearly dont understand the brain well enough to externalize and view it. Egans latest is a beautiful reminder that the literary world has not fallen prey to Hollywoods existing-IP creative drought. Vanity Fair After her fiercely spectacular A Si vous souhaitez personnaliser vos choix, cliquez sur Grer les paramtres de confidentialit. In a way, my books are very different from one another, but I think the idea content is a real throughline. Well, I always think of antibiotics. That place wasnt communal the way a lot of youth hostels were. I wish I knew their full names and could find out who they are and where they are now. Then I worked with another writer, Tom Jenks, who is also still teaching. I still dont really know. I think theres probably a little bit too much of my research in that book. Most young people think theyre the center of the universe, and you thought you were a shadow person. It had more ideas in it. Were there notes and ideas that you didnt find a way to use? Im thinking about one of the chapters in The Candy House, Lulu the Spy, 2032; it started as the story Black Box, which ran on the New Yorker Fiction Twitter feed as a series of tweets. If you think about the eighteen-seventies, its basically the beginning of the Gilded Age, and yet none of that stuff existed yet. So thats a challenge, but I think its a really important challenge. Egan thinks otherwise, maintaining that knowing everything is too much like knowing nothing; without a story, its all just information. Forming it into a narrative is living (even if, as with Didion, the story you tell about yourself is that youre a neurasthenic cynic above such consolations). Its also remarkable that Tom Jenks said, You can do better. How much better is that than saying, This is the best you can do? I feel a hesitation, a wish to slow things down. It was definitely one of the most difficult first-draft writing experiences that Ive had. So that is what interests me about that decade, and the fact that New York had a population of a millionit was a city, it had the grid that it has now, this house existedbut a few hundred miles west the landscape was still undeveloped and contested and in the process of being stolen. I ended up editing the literary magazine. I was always so driven by a desire to get outside of my own world, and I felt like it did that for me. I kind of felt like I was just disappearing, or my brain was crumbling. So, he was living there and running K.F.C. but that wasnt true. He remembers Damon, and then, through facial recognition in the Collective, he is able to view other peoples memories that involve Damon. So that would have to be one book out. Well see. The annual clinicRead More, ORANGE CITY, Fla. (WHDH) An alert bystander is being credited with saving an 8-months old life after a Florida mother left the baby inRead More, A dedicated 20-month-old pup is making a major difference at Franciscan Childrens Hospital in Brighton. Does that one have a contemporary setting? It takes place in Chicago, where Im originally from. No, I had started getting little bits of positive reinforcement. Was that the first positive reinforcement for your writing? I didnt put them inI never canbut they were present. I love taking a point of view that is opposed to the one that I traditionally occupy. And this work routine of writing for four hours every morningthat was enough time to get a lot done. Plus: each Wednesday, exclusively for subscribers, the best books of the week. But for some reason it was a revelatory experience to be cut off from those paths of least resistance. But there were enough ideas there for me to feel that it could become a book. I would bring in stories, and no one cared, and, after a page or two, Id have to stop reading. Sometimes the best place to conceal the real is amid the fake, which could be the motto of fiction: the lie that tells a truth. So, for example, I suddenly began to sense that the California desert was an environment that could live in PowerPoint, which Id tried to use multiple times unsuccessfully. Her solution is to camouflage it by filling the house with Mondrian merch: candleholders, vases, umbrellas, tea trays, glasses, place mats, towels, throw pillows, framed posters, coffee-table books, and a needlepoint footstool. No one, she explains, with a legit Mondrian would ever acquire such crap.. I had sent things to The New Yorker, and they would always come back with a form letter. One bravura chapter, reminiscent of the famous PowerPoint chapter in Goon Squad, is told in directives conveyed to an undercover agent through an implant in her brain. I feel as though if you were to read a page from a Hemingway novel or a page from a George Saunders story, you would know immediately who the author was. Thats where the Collective Unconscious would come in handy. There was no limit. In one chapter, theres a guy who is a recovered drug addict, who has been living a kind of marginal life since he exploded his old life as a successful lawyer and family man. So these writers conferencesI cant recommend them too highly to young writers. Little by little, I began to get a sense that in the twenty-thirties, which I was writing into, theres the possibility of thought sharing. What would your candy house be coated in? And then you imagine new technologies for the future. . I worked as a temp in the word-processing pool for Willkie Farr & Gallagher for a few months. Other people are real, and the world recognizes their reality, but I am kind of a figment. I still dont. Her grandfather passed away. I find myself thinking more and more about how a good crime book works and why. And I think I felt that gave me some sort of control or ownership of whatever was going on, whether it was good or bad. Whats fun about it for me is that it lets me try a lot of different smaller structures without forcing them to pass the test of sustaining a whole novel. They come away, often, with uncomfortable knowledge. I would try to write five to seven pages of each project each day, and Im actually doing the same thing nowtrying to write five to seven pages a day of two very different projects. This was a strange interlude in my life. afficher des publicits et des contenus personnaliss en fonction de vos profils de centres dintrt; mesurer lefficacit des publicits et contenus personnaliss; et. Was it a desire to be able to review your own memories? But I found that, actually, it felt impossible to get there without contending with the fifties. The judgments I have are generic. I think maybe I was the inverse of that. But Im very glad that I had the little experience with it that I did because it was extremely useful in thinking about image culture and what it is to be an object. It was the first sign that in no way was I finished with the Goon Squad world. Our conversations have been edited and condensed. The protagonist is new. But our mental processes aremore mysterious than we realize. It fuelled this constant desire for information. Japan and was very friendly with the world of models and modelling agents. Solutions. And this is the foundation of the next novel? It was this little room on an empty hallway in a modern high-rise. Our consciousness is not like a camera. The New Yorker also comes into play here. I reached a point where I just couldnt go on. One took place as a New Yorker Live event, on Zoom, in June, 2022. Thats kind of what it boils down to: I had this face that reminded people of other faces, but there wasnt something striking there, which I took as a personal failure. So I sent him this new one, The Stylist. I remember this vividly. But I did have an interest in the elliptical storytelling and the serialization that I saw unfolding on Twitter. And, in some cases, I knew more about a character than the reader did by the end of Goon Squad. I knew, when I wrote about Bix in Goon Squad, that he would go on to invent social media, and it bothered me that the reader had no idea, so that generated a sense of wanting to revisit him. I was living that hook-or-crook kind of New York existence, but it turned out that that took all my time. And one thing I know from experience is that, in order to do new things, I have to do them in new ways. Find out if their son, Eddie, will have a little brother or So people were interested, and they would say, Show me what else you have, but everything else I had was clearly not as good. Weve talked about your recent books but not about the beginning of your career. If you go to a graveyard and see how many women were dying in their twenties, probably in childbirth. All Rights Reserved. Its important to me to hear about these very extreme experiences that I will never have but that enrich my understanding of the world and give me material that I can access later imaginatively. Yeah, it was. People have said that this kind of technology is imminent, but I dont think it is. And, in a way, Ive never wavered from where I was heading within the first couple of weeks of arriving there. Also, Joyce Carol Oates, someone Ive read for a very long time and really admired. Recalling a character whos struggling to complete a novel, an authorial voice-over drops in to explain that only fiction lets us roam with absolute freedom through the human collective. Paeans from a novelist to the unique powers of fiction do register as a bit self-serving, but the reason Egan doesnt need to tell us this is because shes spent the previous 13 chapters gloriously proving it. And when I brought in this chapter, with its bells and whistles, they at first gently informed me that it was not really to their liking, and then more stridently said that when my narrator got, you know, ironic and winky with the reader they became angry. Ive heard other people say that they read books and thought, I can do better than that. I had to start over, honestly. I know for sure that Im smarter if Im writing. Which was a sign that finally I had found an approach that made sense for the material that I wanted to write about. So putting the words down made you more real? I was writing first drafts for Manhattan Beach and The Candy House at the same time for about two years. When people would say, What do you do? I would say, Im a temp, and, you know, the conversation would often end quickly. Have there been any writers or books that have had a strong effect on you? Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what youre like isnt who you are. I hate it. She explains that the reason she knows what happened to him is that shes using his externalized memory. All you need to know is that I was born in 1962. We actually began as a writing class. The more I can stay out ahead of the critical side of me, the freer I feel. I wanted to travelthat was a deep wish, which I think, to some degree, came from living in California, where I felt very cut off from Europe. So Charlie, his daughter, solves the mystery, but along the way she also learns that her father loved her brother more than he loved her, and he reflected on that repeatedly. EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Egans best-selling novels A Visit from the Goon Squad and its sequel The Candy House are getting the TV treatment in a big way as A24 has optioned the rights to the books with Olivia Wilde attached to direct the series. I can get into a state of mind where Im ready to die over it. Jennifer anchors NewsCenter 5s Weekend And, when I failed, it felt like another manifestation of my lack of reality. I mean, I do think that theres an existential misery at the heart of social media. But, at that timethis would have been the summer of 81it was exactly the opposite. So I went and lived with Loy, and that was an absolute madhouse. Reporting outdoors, news anchor Kyle Clark and weather meteorologist Kathy And the first thing I did in my gap year was to go on this pretty unsatisfying archeological dig. Yes, thank God. And I actually did a creative thesis. I felt that there was nothing to be involved with when it came to myself, that everything worth thinking about was outside of me. Data-as-a-Service Data Management Data Enrichment API & Webhooks. In terms of style, I dont know. Jennifer Eagan Lucky to be alive: Doctors perform 6 life-saving surgeries on Cape Cod shark attack victim Doctors at Tufts Medical Center are saying a man attacked There was no pressing reason for the PowerPoint chapter in Goon Squad to be written in PowerPoint besides proving that Egan could do it, but the email/text chapter, titled See Below, could only be written in this form. I think I was a strange young person. I use it in the book as a sort of comic exaggeration of a familiar reality. Even if there is a witch, its still an amazing thing to discover in the forest. I really left Twitter behind in the moment of entering into the story itself. EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Egans best-selling novels A Visit from the Goon Squad and its sequel The Candy House are getting the TV treatment in a big way as A24 WebJennifer has been nominated for two Emmy Awards, one of which is for the coverage she provided regarding the arrest of a hospital worker in the state of New Hampshire. So there comes a point when he shares just his memories of this man to the collective. And so that gap year became about trying to earn money so that I could travel, and I ended up going to Japan as a model for March and April. I love to think about the sound and the music of language. But it was a lot of fun in The Keep, for example, to give all of that up and write in the voice of someone who is not versed in any of the conventions of writingso that any sort of lyric beauty that comes along happens by accident. And when I moved to New York, after England, he took me out for an Indian meal, and I thought he had read the book. But I also look forward to the point when we can somehow acknowledge the offense, recognize that the work would be better without it, which is always true, and yet also acknowledge that the work is utterly worth reading. But at least Id have got some work done. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time. I know for sure that Im smarter if Im writing., Photographs by Thea Traff for The New Yorker, private secretary to the Countess of Romanones. It was out-and-out terror. Later we find him running Mondrian behind a nonprofit front that organizes Dungeons & Dragons games for recovering addicts. I mean, when I first got enamored of the idea of trying to write in PowerPointwhich I did for a chapter in Goon SquadI truly did not know what PowerPoint was. But, if I had to pick one novel that has meant more to me than any other, it would be The House of Mirth, no question. All content Copyright 2000 - 2023 WHDH-TV. And it was on that trip that somehow the goal of writing became very clear. The book is called The Candy House, which I assume is a reference to Hansel and Gretel, a story in which a candy house seduces children with sugar. It seemed to defy possibility, but it was real. And, if youve got to pick one, emotion, for sure. I have to find the story that can only be told that way. I read a lot of Shakespeare in England, and his storytelling abilities, putting aside the poetry and all the rest of it, were just so extraordinary. We all have passing encounters in our lives that leave a memory but not enough of one to flesh out with any sort of information, and I kept thinking about how I could do that. So youre reading a lot of crime novels now. So I really was extremely focussed. It was only a matter of time before someone made them pay for what they thought they were getting for free. Manhattan Beach-level research, for sure. In retrospect, thank God. And Id be furious in the moment. repudiate is too strong a word, but, if Ive got used to doing something, I like to cut off that possibility to see what happens next. But basically his only feedback was You need to draw the reader in.. I worked for years with the playwright Romulus Linney. Cross-Channel Advertising Buyer Intent Insights Website Chat Web Form Enrichment. All of that felt so alive to me. I have a writing group that I rely on very heavilyI actually dedicated The Candy House to themand one reason I love having this group is that, with all of my shifting and changing, I really need to check, early and often, whether what Im doing is working at all. But you could only read aloud. Ive always loved crime novels, but I havent really let myself read them that much for a couple of reasons. Anyway, Uncle Loy, as I called him, introduced Kentucky Fried Chicken to Japan. I was so alone. Like so many crime novels of the fifties, sixties, and seventies, theyre very dated. So that was one thing. So its always trial and error. So, for example, with modellingand it seems so laughable now because, obviously, that was not a career that made a lot of sense for mebut what it felt like was other people were real and they succeeded, and I was fake and, therefore, I failed. Me, too, although there are appealing things about it. But this process of finding out very early what is alive and what is notvery basic questionsis, for me, really, really critical. That also includes art-stealing file-sharing platforms, denounced by Miranda Klines twin daughters, who take over their fathers music production company: Nothing is free! I think the first time it happened was in a youth hostel that was in a kind of high-rise building in Reims. I thought, It cant be real because there actually hasnt been enough time for the story to have even reached him. In admitting how much feedback I want to get on my work, I might give the impression that I somehow like this process. All contents And, in retrospect, I have to say Im really grateful for that. But that was all I did. I never want to find out what anyone thinks, unless its, like, This is the best thing Ive ever read. And when do you ever hear that? It is related, but Im not sure how exactly. But I was physically in a place that so much of the publishing world was moving through, and that was kind of wild. But the good part was that she paid me enough to live on, and I worked from 1 to 6 P.M. on weekdays. With a book like Manhattan Beach, which did require years of research, when it comes time to write, do you feel sort of burdened by the weight of that research and the need to incorporate it into your story? Stories like Jennifer Egans make me want to continue my subscription to The New Yorker and discontinue my prescription to anti-depressants, a reader once wrote in. Which do we prefer? Is that intentional? And I think that was essential, because, as you say, its hard to pull all that together. And the big transition that she makes in that book is that she inhabits herself and her life as a real thing. It begins with one woman seeking a private conversation with an aging movie star and spreads to nearly a dozen participants, each trading favors to get what he or she wants, a web of transactions that ultimately results in the joyous reunion of the Conduits, a rock band that appears in Goon Squad, and a documentary film. I dont think so, no, because its going to take so much research. Its intentionalnot so much out of a directive as to what I think I should be doing but because I feel such a hunger to do things that I dont feel Ive done before. As a single, stand-alone book, Im not sure anything can top it, actually. I just knew that everyone kept mentioning it. 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