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Big Time by Jordan Prosser review – a lush, drug-fuelled adventure in a future Australia

Blending dystopic soothsaying and raucous imagination, Prosser’s debut novel is a bit Philip K Dick, a bit Jennifer Egan and a bit entirely unique

The Guardian - AU

Married to the mob: the rise of the smartphone in fiction

They interrupt narrative and disrupt plot – no wonder novelists have been slow to warm to mobile phones. But a new generation is putting technology at the heart of their work

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Lesley Sharp’s cultural highlights

The actor on her love of dance, the reality TV series Below Deck and what helps her to write

The Guardian - UK

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Jennifer Egan talks about craft, the future and ‘The Candy House’

Jennifer Egan always knew she’d return to the characters in her acclaimed 2011 novel “A Visit From the Goon Squad.”

Tribune News Service

Books: 4 stunning fiction debuts by Bay Area authors of color

While many of us will remember the last year as a time when superstar authors published highly anticipated follow-ups — think Michelle Obama, Jennifer Egan and Hanya Yanagihara — it was also a banner year for emerging voices.

Tribune News Service

Best fiction of 2022

Dazzling invention from Jennifer Egan, a state-of-the nation tale from Jonathan Coe and impressive debut novels and short stories are among this year’s highlights

The Guardian - UK

US author Jennifer Egan: 'Reading is a form of resistance'

Her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad" charmed readers in 2010 and was hailed by critics as a true literary engagement with the age of tech. Jennifer Egan's latest novel "The Candy House" explores the evolution of the online space and how it is rewiring our interactions,…

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Novelist Jennifer Egan: ‘It’s hard to write satire in America’

The ‘Goon Squad’ author on the ‘mass psychosis’ of her homeland and the right to write about anything in the ‘greedy grab bag’ of fiction

Financial Times

The Candy House by Jennifer Egan review – new tech, old wounds

This companion novel to A Visit from the Goon Squad, in which memories are uploaded and shared, explores the loneliness of hyper-connectivity

The Guardian - UK

Jennifer Egan: ‘Dialogue is impossible if no one will let the other person speak’

As ‘The Candy House’ – the sequel to her hit 2010 novel ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’ – is published, the author tells Suze Olbrich how the book was written in a ‘half-dream’ state, and talks existential dread, autocracy and fighting book bans

The Independent UK

In The Candy House, Jennifer Egan delivers an inventive novel for a digital age

In her typically inventive fashion, Jennifer Egan calls The Candy House, the follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize winner A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011), a “sibling novel”.

The Conversation

Your ultimate spring reading list

From buzzy debuts to taut thrillers, acerbic millennial love stories to moving memoirs, Phoebe Luckhurst picks the books to add to your shelf now

Evening Standard

The Candy House by Jennifer Egan: a disquieting novel about the dark side of the digital age

Jennifer Egan’s sequel to A Visit from the Goon Squad is fiction’s latest attempt to make sense of where the digital age might be leading us, says Sam Parker

Evening Standard

The Candy House by Jennifer Egan review – information overload

This follow-up to the Pulitzer-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad is packed with smart ideas about digital authenticity but lacks the human moments that made the first book fizz

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Review: 'The Candy House,' by Jennifer Egan

FICTION: An electrifying companion to the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'A Visit From the Goon Squad.'

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The best new books to read in April as selected by avid readers and critics

Our critics’ top picks for the month include novels about a dystopian tech future, feuding visitors to a remote Irish island, and teenage boys falling in love in conflict-riven 90s Glasgow.

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