I think there was an advantage to having pretty low expectations for myself, and having the wish to write come more from a sense that it would complete my experience of reality than that it would bring me acknowledgement from the outside world. Pieter M. Van Hattem Advertisement One character, the junkie daughter of a music producer, uses the device to relive a dearly remembered trip to 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. 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. He was the literary editor at GQ at that point, and he was also teaching out of his living room. I understood that I could spew out a lot of material and then type it up, but I hadnt realized that meant that I now had a really rough and barely coherent first draft that would take years of work to improve. Does it slow you down, or is it liberating to feel that you have backup? I went to one in Park City, Utah, and I went to one in Squaw Valley. I wanted to travelthat was a deep wish, which I think, to some degree, came from living in California, where I felt very cut off from Europe. I didnt start writing Manhattan Beach before Goon Squad, but I was researching itwhich is a good thing, because the Second World War era is now truly vanishing from living memory. Sunbeam Television Corp This was a strange interlude in my life. 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. All Rights Reserved. Not only is the notion of finding out exactly what other people think of you pretty terrifying, but the raw memories pose a threat to the stories we make of them afterward, stories that construct our lives. But I also thought I was a mentally ill person, and was going to spend my life in institutions. But you could only read aloud. Its deeply problematic from the standpoint of sexual mores and violence against women. And then you imagine new technologies for the future. But one sentence in the new novels penultimate chapter does strike me as unnecessary. Which do we prefer? So she made my life possible. It was a very exciting book for me to encounter on my own as a teen-ager. My curiosity tended to be applied to the characters who are the most opaque in Goon Squad, characters who seem almost dispensable, because theyre so minor; that automatically made me curious, because, of course, there are no minor characters in real life. 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. So there comes a point when he shares just his memories of this man to the collective. Is there something you get from journalism that you dont get from writing fiction? Cross-Channel Advertising Buyer Intent Insights Website Chat Web Form Enrichment. I was working on them at the same time, the story collection and the novel. Jennifer Eagan is an anchor and general assignment reporter at WCVB Channel 5, Boston's News Leader. Jennifer anchors NewsCenter 5s Weekend EyeOpener (Saturday & Sunday 5:00AM, 6:00AM, 8:00AM, and Sunday 10:00AM) along with Rhondella Richardson. She is a Wrentham native and has been a reporter in New England for more than a decade. I kind of felt like I was just disappearing, or my brain was crumbling. Certainly, about as different from a city as you could get. 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.. In general, imposing any sort of structure on an existing story has never worked for me. She was an inspiration for Agatha Christie and a very successful novelist in her day. And it was so exciting to feel that happen. At long last! Maybe I would have. Jennifer Egan is not only publishing a new novel but its a sibling sequel to her Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Critics Circle-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad.. Like Goon Squad, The Candy House features a cast of intersecting characters: a tech tycoon who spearheads a new era of online sharing, an anthropologist who But for some reason it was a revelatory experience to be cut off from those paths of least resistance. Its now 2010, and he finds himself back at the East River at midnight, in the same spot where he stood with his friends all those years ago, and he is kind of flabbergasted to realize that he cannot remember much at all about that morning in 1993. And this work routine of writing for four hours every morningthat was enough time to get a lot done. Maybe its just that what you find out may not make you happy. Tell Hank: (855) 247-HANK. It was kind of like that. Has all of your work been read first by the writing group? Eleven years old, a little shrunken-looking in his beige uniform, nothing to hook your gaze if he The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Japan and was very friendly with the world of models and modelling agents. His work I consciously tried to emulate very early on. If you think about the eighteen-seventies, its basically the beginning of the Gilded Age, and yet none of that stuff existed yet. It had to have been a fluke of timing. Im all for trigger warnings. 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. . But, at that timethis would have been the summer of 81it was exactly the opposite. It was so thrilling. 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. So that was where my mind went. So that was Dan accepting the story. But I had put myself in such an isolated situation, a kind of isolation that hardly exists anymore. Own Your Unconscious, his second breakthrough, was also lifted from an academics research and allows people to deposit a copy of their memory to a sexy bit of tech shaped like a luminous cube. And, in that fragmentary way, hes able to string together the story of Damons life up to that point, which unfortunately ends at that moment with Damon in a penitentiary. Being made of imagination, it offers a portal to another universe, much like each of the chapters in Egans novel. It was more interesting. Did that experience help you with your own writing? I dont think I was thinking I would be a writer at that point. I think my failure ratio is higher with this kind of book than with any other. The Internet seems dangerous to me. I feel a hesitation, a wish to slow things down. The protagonist is new. And the thing that I could not understand as a younger writerand its even worse now with social mediais that theres this transcendent effect that quote-unquote success seems to have, like, Oh, my God, Im ascending. I know. Lin-Manuel Miranda goes in search of lost time. Egan isnt especially interested in spinning out all the potential ramifications of the Collective Consciousness, which are considerable and bit distracting. Its not polemical. Around then I got the novel draft out and looked at it and thought, Oh, my God, what was I thinking? Its pure genius. I reached a point where I just couldnt go on. It had more ideas in it. He was a straitlaced businessman who was madly in love with his wife. Shes witnessing a moment of liberation in her fathers life but also the beginning of the end of her parents suburban marriage. What makes real success happen is actually continuing to do better and better work. What would your candy house be coated in? Well, like all structures, it lets me do a certain set of things that I cant do any other way. I dont think so, no, because its going to take so much research. Ad Choices, The author, who has two new book projects under way, says, I feel such a hunger to do things that I dont feel Ive done before.. Anyway, I was pretty conventional and ordinary as a writer, but I had one thing going for me. And, if youve got to pick one, emotion, for sure. 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 was really afraid that I was mentally ill, although I also had some great times, and I met some wonderful people on that trip. Yeah, it was. Later we find him running Mondrian behind a nonprofit front that organizes Dungeons & Dragons games for recovering addicts. And then I would walk to her apartment and sometimes get yelled at for the second half of the day. . In retrospect, thank God. Yes, so much. You said that you dont write about yourself or people you know in fiction. Like, this is working well, and, plus, I dont even know how to write a story like that. afficher des publicits et des contenus personnaliss en fonction de vos profils de centres dintrt; mesurer lefficacit des publicits et contenus personnaliss; et. Weve talked about your recent books but not about the beginning of your career. When people would say, What do you do? I would say, Im a temp, and, you know, the conversation would often end quickly. Ill just think, Oh, my God, its Armageddon. I didnt usually write the two projects literally back to backI didnt put down one and pick up the otherbut I had a system where I would do one, take a break, then do the other. But theyre good stories, and Im enjoying them. But for the first year of college I was haunted by those attacks. It was like eating exactly the protein that my body wanted. And I will sometimes feel that a particular physical environment might live well in a structure that I have on my list. The nineteenth-century book feels embedded in a contemporary context. The story definitely got attention; it was by a completely unknown writer. 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. No other nineteenth-century writer, in English. I can get into a state of mind where Im ready to die over it. Nowadays, everything is so diagnosed and pathologized and categorized. Just like producer Tyrone Johnson, she became a major on air presence on the Fanatics afternoon show. Marcus the blackLabrador Retriever received a warm welcome Wednesday afternoonRead More, A Boston police sergeant dog-sat a black lab from out of town as a family on vacation dealt with a medical emergency at Boston ChildrensRead More, ANTHEM, Ariz. (WHDH) A puppy is on the mend after jumping in front of a rattlesnake to protect his owner in Arizona Friday. When the expression comes up again, its used in a different way, by an aging rocker who wants to remix the old hits of a defunct band as a kind of candy house to lure in a new generation of listeners, so it has a much more benign vibe. A candy house, on the other hand, is just a trap. I can feel my I.Q. I just thought that was the book. I feel like I am more myself on the page than I am any other way. I drew a character map while reading Jennifer Egan's The Candy House, just for the pleasure of charting the swooping, kaleidoscopic intersections of parents and children (and cousins and tennis partners and drug dealers) of a central set of people first introduced in her 2010 novel A Visit from the Goon Squad. . But back then I was awed and amazed by everything around me, and I actually felt that I was not a real person for a lot of my early life. I realize that Ive settled on a story of how it all happened, but sometimes I find myself wondering if it really did happen that way. So I went and lived with Loy, and that was an absolute madhouse. One of those, for example, was to write a story in which people can find other people whom theyve glimpsed only once, whose names they dont know. 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 thought, Is this a prank? 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. With a book like Manhattan Beach, which did require years of research, when it comes time to write, do you feel sort of burdened by the weight of that research and the need to incorporate it into your story? All rights reserved. You get an encyclopedia. And they threw in the Great Books. Storyteller, Producer, Adventurer, Fan of People But I also look forward to the point when we can somehow acknowledge the offense, recognize that the work would be better without it, which is always true, and yet also acknowledge that the work is utterly worth reading. If A Visit from the Goon Squad is about time and music, The Candy House is about experience and art, although the novels four sections (Build, Break, Drop, Build) refer back to the musical structures of Goon Squad. Their lives were what life was supposed to be, and my life was kind of an echo of that. Inside the house is a witch who wants to eat them. That place wasnt communal the way a lot of youth hostels were. 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. Meghan Baker, who is from Midland, Texas, had to leave the show during Wednesday nights episode due to a family emergency. It was a crazy two months. It really shows you. People will say, Are you interested in writing a think piece about something? And Ill think, You dont understand. All rights reserved. I was devastated. But its basically a very autobiographical book about a guy growing up in Harlem, and it was a massive best-seller in its time, which was the sixties. Anyway, I assigned it to my class at Penn, having not reread it, and my T.A.s were horrified at first. And, for a newcomer to the city who had never really known any writers, it was kind of like mainlining the publishing industry. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. I have to saydont expect that response time now! Anyway, once Id decided to do this, there was a very long and tangled path not to success, per se, but to the actual production of anything worthy. 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. But its funnythe people I met in my dorm hallway are my best friends to this day. Let people know whats coming. My moms a huge readershe taught me to read, and weve been exchanging books and book ideas ever since. I started submitting things to literary magazines on campus. You think youre going to eat it, but it ends up eating you. What I love so much about writing journalism is that it gives me license to go marching out into the world and ask people all kinds of things and be the nosy busybody that I really am. I realized that Phils focus was on getting at emotional truth, which, in a way, matters more than anything else. Cupcake gender reveal for NewsCenter 5's Jennifer Eagan Updated: 11:25 AM EDT Apr 16, 2022 Sorry, this video is not available, please check back later. He appears basically in just one scene, and that is set in 1993, when, after partying all night with a couple of his N.Y.U. It comes up in the text twice, and the first time is in a somewhat comic context. Yes, and it still does somehow. Id been to Mexico, but that was really the only foreign country I had visited. Not only thatI had saved every map and drawn circles around each site that I visited. And, believe me, I was hitting that point very quicklylike, I was barely getting past a couple of pages. But, yes, it is amazing that in my first novel, The Invisible Circus, I was already reaching for the things that interest me now. I worked for years with the playwright Romulus Linney. I was always so driven by a desire to get outside of my own world, and I felt like it did that for me. Do you feel that you need to keep your style evolving? Ideally, youre doing all of itthe emotional part and the idea part. I want to. Technology, specifically the alluring Collective Consciousness, is the candy house of the novels title. So I did that. Talent Search Candidate In fact, unless someone named Deborah Treisman occasionally asks me to write a personal essay, I really dont even attempt it. The best of movies, TV, books, music, and more, delivered to your inbox. Its so true. Thats one of the reasons I thought of it, actually! I started in his fiction class, and then we did an independent study. Have there been any writers or books that have had a strong effect on you? Yes. But I found that, actually, it felt impossible to get there without contending with the fifties. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time. And then, if they wish, they can share all or part of their memories to a collective, the Collective Consciousness, and that ends up being an important development that plays out through the course of the book. Lous daughters are trying to figure out a way to warn people not to use Napster, and they flirt with the notion of a billboard campaign: along American highways, there would be billboards reading NEVER TRUST A CANDY HOUSE. The message is basically, This music seems to be free, but its not. And Im now feeling like maybe I can. So I think my house would have to be covered with hard candy: shiny, delicious nonfood. Like Goon Squad, The Candy House comes together in pieces. Its not as simple as even just wanting novelty. But basically his only feedback was You need to draw the reader in.. My favorite candy is definitely Snickers, but what I found myself thinking about with The Candy House, especially as we searched for a cover, is that candy can actually be very beautiful. I wish I knew their full names and could find out who they are and where they are now. And I continue to be very interested in genre, so Im reading a lot of crime fiction. Chris calls his organization Mondrian, presumably in tribute to his grandmother, who kept an authentic Mondrian painting in a modest tract home so impossible to secure that no company would insure it. I think the first time it happened was in a youth hostel that was in a kind of high-rise building in Reims. But my feeling is always: Why not try to do all of it and more? So the machine was an empowering tool for me as a fiction writer. Because, if Ive figured out how to do something, my first goal is to not let myself do it. Thats right. grant. Does that one have a contemporary setting? Yes, I am. We all have passing encounters in our lives that leave a memory but not enough of one to flesh out with any sort of information, and I kept thinking about how I could do that. So when I decided that I wanted to write it was never with a sense of the tremendous potential that I would unleash on the world. That story picked up on a character from Goon Squad, much later in her life, and Im wondering if that was the gateway story for The Candy House? All you need to know is that I was born in 1962. So Id convert disappointment into hope immediately. Jennifer and her husband, Jason, are expecting their second child. I remember there was a moment when I was on the elliptical machine at the gym, reading the Merchant Marine Officers Handbook, from the nineteen-forties. So I was writing the first chapter in that way, with a narrator who kept reminding the reader that, of course, it was actually the twenty-first century. They came to college with their parents and supplies. It doesnt come easily to me. If I cant do that, then the characterization wont work. Other people are real, and the world recognizes their reality, but I am kind of a figment. So that all felt really close to me, and I used my itinerary from my doomed European trip, which I had documented so extensively in my journal. But it turned out that those tricks were ineffectual and actually irritating. The feeling of being unreal compared with other people is, if anything, worse now. Sometimes the best place to conceal the real is amid the fake, which could be the motto of fiction: the lie that tells a truth. I would bring in stories, and no one cared, and, after a page or two, Id have to stop reading. And one thing I know from experience is that, in order to do new things, I have to do them in new ways. In other cases, I did keep working on them, but realized in the end that I couldnt make that particular version work. mesurer votre utilisation de nos sites et applications. I would say that there are books that feel like theyre part of my literary DNA, even though someone may or may not see that while reading my work. In admitting how much feedback I want to get on my work, I might give the impression that I somehow like this process. And I guess the challenge always with structure is to find the story that requires that particular structure. So I sent him this new one, The Stylist. I remember this vividly. Well, I always think of antibiotics. This interview is drawn from two conversations. Highlights from the week in culture, every Saturday. OpenAIs chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Then I will walk away, but often I try quite a few things before I get to that point, because Im still, you know, waiting to see if some other approach might come to my aid. He wrote a nice note back, and it was very encouraging. Plus: each Wednesday, exclusively for subscribers, the best books of the week. So these writers conferencesI cant recommend them too highly to young writers. I continue to want to understand how technology changes us. I have to find the story that can only be told that way. And I think that approach was exactly what I needed. Well, it was interesting, when imagining people using the machine, to think about what that would really mean. While working on fiction, you have sometimes also taken on journalistic assignmentsfor the Times Magazine and other places. It was this little room on an empty hallway in a modern high-rise. I had a whole system, a way of combating disappointment, which was that the day a story came back I would send it out again. Then I had a scholarship to go to England and study at Cambridge. I love that feeling. It takes place in Chicago, where Im originally from. I mean, when I first got enamored of the idea of trying to write in PowerPointwhich I did for a chapter in Goon SquadI truly did not know what PowerPoint was. Thats the price. But the idea that someone driving along the highway would see one of these billboards and think, Ah, I guess I shouldnt use Napster, is pretty silly, and they end up not pursuing the billboard campaign. If you cant make people feel at least interest or curiosity, youve got nothing. The chapter is an illustration of how human connection works, facilitated by technology, yet not so different from the Brazilian tribe studied by anthropologist Miranda Kline, who is dismayed to see her monograph monetized by Bix into a surveillance platform disguised as a community. What was bad about working with the countess was that she had a hot temper and could be abusive. I feel so grateful to the ones who stick with me. Stories like Jennifer Egans make me want to continue my subscription to The New Yorker and discontinue my prescription to anti-depressants, a reader once wrote in. But this process of finding out very early what is alive and what is notvery basic questionsis, for me, really, really critical. I hate it. I guess the definition of a panic attack is that youre afraid because youre afraid because youre afraid. Its intentionalnot so much out of a directive as to what I think I should be doing but because I feel such a hunger to do things that I dont feel Ive done before. Youre giving the Internet access to your own music and your own computer. I just told the story in a much more straightforward way, and it was an absolute relief to do that. No, I had started getting little bits of positive reinforcement. All content Copyright 2000 - 2023 WHDH-TV. I was living that hook-or-crook kind of New York existence, but it turned out that that took all my time. The person who narrates the 1965 chapter, which describes how four young bankers leapt into the counterculture at a pot farm in the redwoods, is the daughter of one of the men. repudiate is too strong a word, but, if Ive got used to doing something, I like to cut off that possibility to see what happens next. It does everything I want to do and more, and it bears infinite rereadings, as far as I can tell. Egan was born in Chicago, and her parents divorced when she was two. 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. Doctors at Tufts Medical Center are saying a man attacked by a shark off of Cape Cod is lucky to be alive. And there were these little signs of approval that would come along, like a handwritten nice note or sometimes even a signed name. Its also remarkable that Tom Jenks said, You can do better. How much better is that than saying, This is the best you can do? I was at a nine-hour time difference from my home, and my home itself was breaking up. It wasnt like dying. 2023 And the idea of those two worlds coexisting in time is really interesting to me. He said, Yes, its good, but you can do better. And I thought, Dude, everyone loves it, its emotional. 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. And I think that was essential, because, as you say, its hard to pull all that together. You can follow up good fortune with more work that can potentially bring more good fortune. Im kind of excited, because it definitely was frustrating, with Manhattan Beach, to feel that I couldnt find any more interesting way to approach the convention of historical fiction except to hit it head on. In terms of technology, its so hard for me to evaluate what is good and what is bad, because I am kind of afraid of all of it. 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