In 2011 she was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her 2008 story on bipolar children won an Outstanding Media Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library in 2004–2005. She was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. In 2002 she wrote a cover story on homeless children that received the Carroll Kowal Journalism Award. He tries, very successfully in some ways, to capture the sense of time passing, the quality of consciousness, and the ways to get around linearity, which is the weird scourge of writing prose." Awards Įgan received a Thouron Award in 1986, was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996. One thing that facilitates that kind of time travel is music, which is why I think music ended up being such an important part of the book. I experience it in layers that seem to coexist. Of her inspiration and approach to the work, she said, "I don't experience time as linear. I actually tried to break that rule later if you make a rule then you also should break it!" The book features genre-bending content such as a chapter entirely formatted as a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. My ground rules were: every piece has to be very different, from a different point of view. I wanted a lateral feeling, not a forward feeling. She has published one short story collection and six novels, among which Look at Me was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001.Įgan has been hesitant to classify A Visit from the Goon Squad as either a novel or a short story collection, saying, "I wanted to avoid centrality. Her first novel, The Invisible Circus, was released in 1995 and adapted into a film of the same name released in 2001. Egan at LiteratureXchange Festival in Aarhus (Denmark 2019)Įgan has published short fiction in the New Yorker, Harper's, Zoetrope: All-Story, and Ploughshares, among other periodicals, and her journalism appears frequently in the New York Times Magazine.
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