Why Jennifer Egan (Egangoonsquad) created a future without privacy in 'The Candy House'
was hailed for its kaleidoscopic structure, which leapt across eras and literary styles as it unraveled a web of stories following loosely connected characters. One chapter was told via a Powerpoint presentation; another took the form of a scathing celebrity profile.similarly tells 14 stories that zig-zag between the 1960s and the 2030s, incorporating emails, teenage diaries, and spy mission logs.
Egan’s memory machine serves two key purposes in the novel. First, it allows her to plumb more deeply into the pasts and futures of a set of characters who readers fell in love with more than a decade ago. It also allows her to confront one of the central developments of our time—the into our everyday lives—and to explore the consequences of what happens when social media and immersive tech are taken to their logical, invasive end.got it: It’s not that anyone forces screens into every home,” Egan says. “It’s that we invite them.”
Egan’s work is fueled by a deep curiosity about other people—and that impulse is immediately evident. On the sunny March afternoon we meet in Brooklyn, she peppers me with questions about my Manhattan upbringing and forays into the music industry. A former journalist for the New YorkMagazine, she prefers when the subject is anyone or anything but herself.
Egan says she often walks and bikes around the city—including this stretch of esplanade—for inspiration. A key character intakes place around the corner at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. “New York has been so generative and enriching to my writing process,” she says. “I love the anonymity and that I end up in close proximity to people from every walk of life.
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