Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to story telling -- in prose and in poetry, in art and in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of September 6th
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It is the 249th day of the year, leaving 116 days remaining in 2022.
She tells her stories in unusual, inventive ways. She plays with time and format. She explores various themes, such as how identity and reality exist in a consumer-driven culture. She released an entire short story in a series of tweets on Twitter.
She has won a Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. She was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and longlisted for the National Book Award.
Her first novel, The Invisible Circus, and an earlier short-story collection, Emerald City, were inspired by her travels through Europe while a student at St John's College in Cambridge, England.
In Look at Me, she wrote about a model whose face had to be reconstructed after an automobile accident. The Keep is about a writing workshop in a prison, and looks at how confinement affects people.
Her award-winning novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, defies a concise description. It is a tale told from various perspective, wandering about in time over several decades. One chapter is written as a power point presentation. In an interview with BOMB magazine, she said, "I don't experience time as linear. I experience it in layers that seem to co-exist."
Her most recent book is The Candy House, a sort of sequel to Goon Squad, about how memories exist and are shared on social media.
Egan lives in New York City.
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