Jennifer Egan: How to Create Your Own Rules
What shapes a novel beyond its beginning, middle, and end? Does structure trigger narrative? Author of 2011’s genre-defying, A Visit From The Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan has said of her process, “I don’t know what I’m doing. That’s the price you pay for doing something different every time.” The Pulitzer Prize–winning Egan explores the role of structure in writing and reading, sharing her perspective on the “rules” and her process in bending them.
This event took place as part of the 2012 PEN World Voices Festival.
Co-sponsored by The New School for Social Research
(Source: pen.org)
