![]() "I wrote about one person's intimate life and then would spot someone else from the corner of my eye whose intimate life I wanted to crack open and reveal to the reader." "I was led by my own curiosity," Egan says. But since Egan was determined that each story be able to stand on its own, they're told from different points of view, imbued with different moods and written in different styles. ![]() Not to say that Egan doesn't like to experiment - Goon Squad is composed of a series of stories with the arc of a novel in which each story is a chapter. "When I hear that something is experimental, I tend to think that means the experiment will drown out the story," Egan says. You can call it linked short stories you can call it a novel - just don't call it experimental. Jennifer Egan freely admits that her book A Visit from the Goon Squad defies categorization - and that doesn't bother her in the least. Jennifer Egan's short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers and McSweeny's. ![]()
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