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Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan is the author of The Keep, Look at Me, The Invisible Circus, and the story collection Emerald City. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, GQ, Zoetrope, All-Story, and Ploughshares, and her nonfiction appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine. She lives with her husband and sons in Brooklyn.


How Edith Wharton’s Novel of New York High Society Speaks to Class Divisions Today

Jennifer Egan on The House of Mirth
January 14, 2020  By Jennifer Egan
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Jennifer Egan: Why PEN America is Suing Donald Trump

"Trump's vitriol against reporters has made political journalism a more dangerous practice."
October 18, 2018  By Jennifer Egan
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Jennifer Egan Makes Friends Across Seven Decades (and Countless Letters)

The Author of Manhattan Beach on the Intimacy of Historical Research
October 19, 2017  By Jennifer Egan
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Fiction Can Still Do Anything It Wants: Jennifer Egan on Don DeLillo

"Delillo's work is made of stealthy blessings"
May 3, 2016  By Jennifer Egan
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