And I guess really, at bottom, what Im reflecting on is the great technological revolution that Ive witnessed in my lifetime, being technically a baby boomerits a long generation, and Im at the tail end of it. . 'The Candy House' is a brilliant portrait of intersecting With you, if I read a page of Manhattan Beach and I read a page of The Candy House side by side, I would not know that they were by the same writer. I really want to continue with the time frame that I started with Manhattan Beach. Im interested in the immediate postwar era, having written so intensively about the war years. Its not as simple as even just wanting novelty. Being made of imagination, it offers a portal to another universe, much like each of the chapters in Egans novel. In other words, he stopped reading on page 1? And the Brits, I mean, MiddlemarchI think it is one of the best novels written in English, no question about it. So I sent him this new one, The Stylist. I remember this vividly. We actually began as a writing class. And then there are also books that matter for each individual book of mine. I cant even utter those words because its such a downer. And I think I asked someone, Do you know the name of anyone there? And that person said, Yes, Dan Menaker. So I thought, O.K., Im going to send something to Dan Menaker, and I did. In general, imposing any sort of structure on an existing story has never worked for me. And I guess all of it speaks to the main thing I feel, which is that incremental success is absolutely the way to go, because that way you dont get ahead of yourself. 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. Theres not a lot of filler in Jennifer Egans radiant new novel, The Candy House, a sequel of sorts to her 2010 Pulitzer-winning bestseller, A Visit From the Goon Squad. 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. Natalie Egenolf took to Twitter today to announce that she is no longer a part of the show. Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what youre like isnt who you are. 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. But at least Id have got some work done. The best of movies, TV, books, music, and more, delivered to your inbox. WebDiscover the book. I am not interesting enough to write a think piece because my thinking happens through writing. Id think, Well, if you just let me read a little more. How did you decide which characters from Goon Squad to explore in The Candy House? And, on that trip to Europe, I started having panic attacks, which I had never heard of. Ive thought about trying to teach it. I dont think I was thinking I would be a writer at that point. And, believe me, I was hitting that point very quicklylike, I was barely getting past a couple of pages. Send me updates about Slate special offers. Pieter M. Van Hattem Advertisement One character, the junkie daughter of a music producer, uses the device to relive a dearly remembered trip to Some people say their thought takes place in images, some in words. Thats whats so sad about it. I ended up editing the literary magazine. It just insisted on moving more slowly. So its a deeply uncomfortable process, always, but just essential for me, because at the beginning I dont always know what Im trying to do, and when I ultimately do know what Im trying to do I dont know if Im doing it, and I like to find out while I still have time to close the gap. But, to me, it was just enthralling at that point. 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 guess the definition of a panic attack is that youre afraid because youre afraid because youre afraid. Our consciousness is not like a camera. But you could only read aloud. But my ability just wouldnt back me up. The challenge is finding people who genuinely want the work to succeed and yet will be honest, and some of us in the group have been working together since the nineties. Its almost unbelievable that people were allowed to publish these books, because the casual sexism is just impossible to metabolize for a contemporary sensibility. So, for example, in Lulu the Spy, the chapter that you published as Black Box, Lulu is spying for the U.S. government and transmitting a record of her mission via a device implanted 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. Tom has been a kind of pole star for me. Thats right. After Bix leaves, the other two end up going swimming, and Rob drowns. I would go to writers conferences in the summers, which I think is a great way to actually get some feedback and make connections. My moms a huge readershe taught me to read, and weve been exchanging books and book ideas ever since. So putting the words down made you more real? Youre kind of describing the process of reading fiction. 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. but that wasnt true. All of this feels more at ease than Goon Squad, a novel Id never thought of as betraying any strain until I read The Candy House. See what you think. Then the next crucial test is what happens when I start writing in this way. WHDH broadcast educational and informational programming for children, and file quarterly reports with the FCC detailing the station's outreach to children. I thought, It cant be real because there actually hasnt been enough time for the story to have even reached him. And it was on that trip that somehow the goal of writing became very clear. We update links when possible, 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. Oh, my God. It really shows you. I think some of that was that I felt that Id been over-rewarded for Goon Squad, and I feared a kind of comeuppancethat, coupled with the fact that I was doing the thing that I felt least qualified to do, because one thing Ive realized over time is that, although I dont write about myself or people I know, the physical environments I rely on are ones that I remember. Me, too, although there are appealing things about it. If I keep chasing that novelty, it almost guarantees that I wont be one of those writers who gives readers the satisfaction of feeling like theyre settling into a familiar voice and approachwhich is, honestly, kind of a self-indulgence on my part, and I think it has asked a lot of my readers. And one thing I know from experience is that, in order to do new things, I have to do them in new ways. Egan repeatedly breaks down the walls of form and genre to play with conventions and the readers expectationsone chapter of The Candy House, for instance, is written in paragraphs of a hundred and forty characters or less, and was first published as a Twitter thread. The Slate Group LLC. afficher des publicits et des contenus personnaliss en fonction de vos profils de centres dintrt; mesurer lefficacit des publicits et contenus personnaliss; et. I mean, invisibility is a joy if you can reinhabit yourself eventually. And its a tragedy in the Greek sense. Another book I pulled from her shelves was James Baldwins Another Country. I absolutely loved that novel, which I reread recently. 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. One character, the junkie daughter of a music producer, uses the device to relive a dearly remembered trip to London she made with her dad at age 16, only to learn that he occasionally regretted bringing her along. Well, it was interesting, when imagining people using the machine, to think about what that would really mean. In The Candy House, D&D represents one of several alternatives to the candy house of technology and information. So I will write a first draft and then look at it more critically and ask myself whether the form will continue to serve what Im doing. But the curiosity partthat is where I can start to make a more individual contribution to the conversation. The big lesson that I learned is: dont ever assign a book without having read it recently, because our standards are changing, and thats all for the good. And I had this idea that my year would be devoted to archeology. I had read a lot of books about books that I hadnt read. And Id be furious in the moment. friends, Drew and Rob, he walks with them to the East River to watch the sunrise. 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. I have to saydont expect that response time now! The second took place on a dark and rainy afternoon in January in Egans high-ceilinged but homey living room in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, after I had displaced one of her three catsThats Cuddles, our dim beautyfrom her spot on the couch. Around then I got the novel draft out and looked at it and thought, Oh, my God, what was I thinking? Moving back in time to the years between Goon Squad and The Candy House: in 2017, you published Manhattan Beach, which is a very different kind of novel. They come away, often, with uncomfortable knowledge. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. So there was something that was interesting there to be used later. Web4,565 Followers, 294 Following, 335 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Jennifer Eagan (@jennifer_eagan) Its weird, you know? The Candy House and Goon Squad are ensemble pieces that, hopefully, work in a sort of kaleidoscopic way, with many different individual stories fusing into a larger narrative that has an arc, but a looser one, like that of, say, a serialized novel or a TV programsince thats where many people get their serialization now. And, when I wrote Black Box as a series of tweets, I was not good at using Twitter at all. 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 thought, Is this a prank? And it was so exciting to feel that happen. That sort of refers to the abiding presence in the novel of a new technology that enables people to export all their memories and upload them to an online repository, where (if their owner so chooses) others can view them too, along with the accompanying thoughts and feelings. And, if I create these very diverse, smaller units that still fuse into a larger story, it can give the book a kind of power that a straight-through novel doesnt have in the same way. So I had no words to understand what was happening to me. So it was very disappointing to find not only that people didnt like it but that ultimately, when I could sort of gather my courage to read it, I found it pretty unreadable, too. Interestingly, it didnt really come about that way. Jennifer Eagan Husband She is happily married to her dia husband called Jason Law. The couple tied the knot on June 2, 2019. Just like Jennifer, Jason also works as a reporter as well as weekend anchor at Boston 25 News. Im not going to say its great. Boston, MA 02114 I mean, it was while working for her that I really got into a serious writing routine. The power of the image and image culture, its relationship to our inner lives, terrorism as an epiphenomenon of image culture, just as modelling isI kind of brought those two ideas together in my novel Look at Me.. I mean, I do think that theres an existential misery at the heart of social media. My first stepfather had a good friend who was this kind of wild man named Loy Weston. Dont all men prefer their sons? The nineteenth-century book feels embedded in a contemporary context. Maybe I would have. Im interested in people who are not like me. Its unsparing. We encountered an issue signing you up. I can get into a state of mind where Im ready to die over it. All contents One example of that is a character named Sasha, in Goon Squad, who likes to steal. Theres no, you know, not quite having time and sort of fudging it slightly, or fixating on little things instead of big things. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. All Rights Reserved. And then I would walk to her apartment and sometimes get yelled at for the second half of the day. Eagan, who graduated from Boston College, will join WCVB after more than five years at WHDH 7News as a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor. It was a fantastic, reasonably priced workshop. Stories so bleakly wrought that they make me eerily happy. Egans latest book, The Candy House, from 2022, now out in paperback, is just what that reader described: a series of sometimes bleak, interlocking narratives of unloved childhood, struggling adolescence, confused youth, and wary or regretful adulthood which are nevertheless shot through with a soul-warming sense of compassion. Then I worked with another writer, Tom Jenks, who is also still teaching. But Egan is after more than a cautionary tale; she is interested in describing social technology as a lived environment. Not only thatI had saved every map and drawn circles around each site that I visited. Now, none of that means that I can write one. So, again, back to curiosityif I can access my curiosity, Im suddenly totally fascinated, because I think, What are they looking at? But every time I gave myself permission to do that I found that I kept returning to the environment as I had researched and imagined it: Second World War New York, the technical details of deep-sea diving with the equipment of the nineteen-thirties and forties, shipbuilding, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, merchant sailing. So the machine was an empowering tool for me as a fiction writer. I feel so grateful to the ones who stick with me. It is related, but Im not sure how exactly. I was so alone. So, for example, when I started working on Manhattan Beach, I was trying to establish the voice, which is one of those elusive concepts and yet a totally necessary element of successful fiction, and I had this idea that I think was left over from Goon Squad, in which I took a kind of winking approach to time: the reader often knows what happens before the characters do, because the story moves backward. This interview is drawn from two conversations. I feel like I am more myself on the page than I am any other way. All of that felt so alive to me. If we as readers cant metabolize writing that may, in some ways, offend contemporary sensibilities, we cut ourselves off from an enormous amount of rich work that could benefit us as readers and writers. 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. Photo illustration by Slate. It wasnt like dying. Because the story Ive settled into is that I didnt want to be a writer, and then it sort of came to me during this year off that I was taking. It was so thrilling. 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. dvelopper et amliorer nos produits et services. In retrospect, thank God. No, I had started getting little bits of positive reinforcement. Absolutely. If you cant make people feel at least interest or curiosity, youve got nothing. So I felt uniquely ill-qualified to do that work, and the way that that manifested itself was that the writing felt really dead. At some point, we become aware that his daughter is telling the story. Were in such a tender moment culturally, for good reasons. I was going to say that you often sound like your own fiercest critic; I havent heard many writers be as hard on themselves as you are. Theres not a lot of filler in Jennifer Egans radiant new novel, The Candy House, a sequel of sorts to her 2010 Pulitzer-winning bestseller, A Visit From the Goon Squad. But one sentence in the new novels penultimate chapter does strike me as unnecessary. And, ultimately, I ended up having to go home. Blake RickerRead More, The New England Revolution shared the field with some local soccer lovers Wednesday during a special skills clinic for children with disabilities. He remembers Damon, and then, through facial recognition in the Collective, he is able to view other peoples memories that involve Damon. We have the experience and we respond, and I think theres a great triage that occurs with reading aloud, where people just naturally go to the most important things. Its a little like pruning: you prune to encourage growth in new ways, and I try to prune my own habits to keep growing and getting better. And then, actually, a critical element in that process was buying a notebook with eight rectangles on every page so that suddenly I was writing inside these small boxes, and that really helped me. There were also some really good Agatha Christies I hadnt read, particularly The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which is just a knockout. At that point, the Goon Squad world really faded from my mind, except when I was thinking about abstract ideas that were interesting to me. I had a kind of breakthrough in Tom Jenkss class. And then I also have people who read whole drafts and an editor whos incredibly helpful as well. What is the appeal of that structure for you? But when those attacks happened, and they happened several times in the course of two months, I would actually write, during the attacks and afterward, to sort of process them. And one thing I know from experience is that, in order to do new things, I have to do them in new ways. So these writers conferencesI cant recommend them too highly to young writers. And then I tried to write a novel, which was absolutely terrible, but I think my problem was more that I had not figured out what my method was yet. Steve Eagar is a reporter and evening news anchor for Fox 4 News. But there were enough ideas there for me to feel that it could become a book. Doctors at Tufts Medical Center are saying a man attacked by a shark off of Cape Cod is lucky to be alive. There was no limit. He felt bad about it and hoped it was normal. I love Don DeLillo. Which was a sign that finally I had found an approach that made sense for the material that I wanted to write about. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. I wish I knew their full names and could find out who they are and where they are now. Si vous souhaitez personnaliser vos choix, cliquez sur Grer les paramtres de confidentialit. I had never heard of her, but Ive read a number of her books now. But, honestly, there were also people I wanted to write about but wasnt able to successfully. 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. It does everything I want to do and more, and it bears infinite rereadings, as far as I can tell. This was a strange interlude in my life. I dont really regret that, because it informed the development of my thinking, but by this point I needed to just read a bunch of books. Did you know what was triggering the panic attacks? 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 feel such a hunger to do things that I dont feel Ive done before, she told me. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Its so spectacular. And then how did you get them to a publisher? Ideally, youre doing all of itthe emotional part and the idea part. The subject feels inexhaustible because the technology keeps changing. So people were interested, and they would say, Show me what else you have, but everything else I had was clearly not as good. I was thinking about this list of utterances that I was generating in the voice of this person on her spy mission. Anyway, the thing that I had really been trying to do was just go to Europe with a backpack, so I did that finally. Im the opposite of an autofiction writer, thats for sure. 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So thats part of the dark side of the technology, even for people who use it for its intended purpose. Even if there is a witch, its still an amazing thing to discover in the forest. Are you willing to talk about why youre so interested in the eighteen-seventies? Prior to So thats a challenge, but I think its a really important challenge. 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. Where I thought I was trying to go was the nineteen-sixties, which I very much want to write fiction about. He was the literary editor at GQ at that point, and he was also teaching out of his living room. It was kind of like that. Japan and was very friendly with the world of models and modelling agents. Anyway, I assigned it to my class at Penn, having not reread it, and my T.A.s were horrified at first. Is the novel set in the fifties a follow-up to Manhattan Beach or unrelated? Egans outputshe has published seven books of fictionis notable not for its uniformity of style and approach but for its ever-shifting ambitions and obsessions. It was that I was so enamored of these details that I had a really hard time recognizing the difference between the level of my interest and the possible level of the readers interest. 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. 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. I was writing first drafts for Manhattan Beach and The Candy House at the same time for about two years. Tom thought maybe he would publish that story at GQ, but it didnt quite happen. Thats not really the question youre asking, but it is something that I reassure myself with, because medical progress inarguably has made all our lives better. It seemed to defy possibility, but it was real. Theres a former boy wonder desperate for his next brainstorm, a teenage girl agonizing over her social status, a recovering drug addict whose attempted suicide provides another man with the chance to heal an old wound. but note that deals can expire and all prices are subject to change. I didnt tell anyone about them because I was so ashamed. Ive settled on the eighteen-seventies because it strikes me as the last decade before all the inventions that we think of as twentieth-century, though really theyre not: widespread camera use, widespread combustion-engine use, incandescent light. But the curiosity partthat is where I can start to make a more individual contribution to the House... 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