
Podcast: Ep236: Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad
June 4, 2022
Author(s): BBC World Service
Podcast: World Book Club
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Jennifer Egan answers audience questions about her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad. It is a dazzling, exciting book, which plays with form and storytelling traditions. Goon Squad is made up of connected short stories circling around musician and record executive Bennie Salazar, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. It explores their pasts and catapults them into the future using a rich variety of voices and narrative styles. This special edition of World Book Club, presented by Katherine Lanpher, was recorded at Brooklyn Central Library.
(Photo: Jennifer Egan. Credit: Pieter M. Van Hattem)