Dialogue Series: Jennifer Egan on How to Create Your Own Rules

<p>May 4, 2012 &nbsp;|&nbsp;The New School &nbsp;| &nbsp;New York City<br />

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With Jennifer Egan and Jacob Weisberg</p>

 

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What shapes a novel beyond its beginning, middle, and end? Does structure trigger narrative? Author of 2011&rsquo;s genre-defying, A Visit From The Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan has said of her process, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what I&rsquo;m doing. That&rsquo;s the price you pay for doing something different every time.&rdquo; In the second installment of our Dialogue Series, &ldquo;What to Do With Literature,&rdquo; the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning writer explores the role of structure in writing and reading, sharing her perspective on the &ldquo;rules&rdquo; and her process in bending them.<br />

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Co-sponsored by The New School for Social Research&nbsp;</p>

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