“On April 18th, Jennifer Egan’s fourth novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, was named the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction. And music-minded bookworms celebrated! Because though much of the praise for Egan’s book may have been due to its structure (a string of diverse but interlocked short stories), post-modern narrative (one chapter is made up of a PowerPoint created by an autistic boy in the near-future — one that was, humorously, ill-formatted on a Kindle), and emotional depth, at its heart, the strength of Goon Squad is the celebration of music’s many powers: time-keeper, myth-maker, memory-organizer, cultural avenger. This, bookworms recognized, made it special — not just another piece of Rock Lit.”