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Nov 9, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Jennifer Egan
As several friends and I knocked on the front doors of registered Democrats’ homes around Allentown, Pennsylvania, the weekend before the election, and in Northeast Philadelphia on Election Day, there were moments that felt emblematic. The white couple whose toddler, wearing a rainbow “Girl Power” T-shirt, blew kisses to us from her doorway before the family headed out to vote for Kamala Harris.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
vitalcitynyc.org | Adem Bunkeddeko |Asad Dandia |Jennifer Egan |Avi Schick
By Adem BunkeddekoI have a bond and love for New York that is sometimes difficult to capture in words. I am the son of refugees who fled Uganda’s civil war during the early 1980s in pursuit of sanctuary and a better life in the city. From the ashes of turmoil, my parents would plant seeds of hope in a rent-stabilized one-bedroom dwelling in Queens, which, notwithstanding being plagued with vermin, symbolized their American dream.
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May 7, 2024 | 
audible.com | Katie O'Connor |Sarah J. Maas |Jennifer Egan |John Irving
Note: Text has been edited and does not match audio exactlyKatie O'Connor: Hi, listeners. I'm Audible Editor Katie O'Connor, and I'm beyond excited to be speaking with best friend writing duo Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings today, known to us by the pen name Christina Lauren. Welcome to you both. Christina Hobbs: Yay. Thank you so much. Lauren Billings: Hello. KO: You two have coauthored more than two dozen novels together.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
thedp.com | Charlotte Comstock |Jennifer Egan
Bestselling author Margaret Atwood spoke at the Stephen A. Levin Family Dean’s Forum in Irvine Auditorium on April 17, drawing an audience of over 200 people. Atwood is a Canadian author known for her 1985 novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” and its 2019 sequel “The Testaments," among many other award–winning works of fiction, critical essays, and poetry.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Jennifer Egan |Christine Ma-Kellams
Reading Lists Will they or won't they? Situationships are underrated—said no one ever.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
trinity.edu | Kevin Canty |Jennifer Egan |Nora Ephron |Jeffrey Eugenides
From 2010 up until her death earlier this year, Coleen Grissom, Ph.D., Trinity University professor emerita of English, had written a column for nearly every issue of Trinity magazine detailing her latest reads. With her trademark wit and gruffly humorous, yet thoughtful, commentary, Grissom recommended her latest “Lit Picks,” or “Recs for the Literati,” as the column was known before its name change in the mid-2010s.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Jennifer Egan |Alice McDermott
FictionWhat happens when two American women attempt to help the people of Saigon? In Alice McDermott’s new novel, the answer is complicated. Credit...Ciara Quilty-HarperOct. 27, 2023, 5:01 a.m. ETABSOLUTION, by Alice McDermottAlice McDermott is rightly celebrated for her granular, nuanced portraits of mid-20th-century life, with a particular focus on Irish Americans.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
altaonline.com | Jennifer Egan
I worked as a counselor at a methadone clinic not far from where I used to make my drug buys from Damon. My studio apartment was nearby, and as I walked to work under those same shadowy overpasses where Damon and I used to roll down our windows, I often wondered what had become of him. I didn’t have to wonder, of course—thanks to Own Your Unconscious™, we can track down a person we’ve glimpsed just once in our lives.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
msn.com | Jennifer Egan
El don de la afinidad— Tengo tantas ganas... — dijo Bix mientras estiraba los hombros y la espalda de pie junto a la cama, un ritual que hacía cada noche antes de acostarse —. De hablar, simplemente. Lizzie lo miró por encima de los rizos oscuros de Gregory, su hijo pequeño, a quien estaba dando el pecho. — Te escucho — susurró. — Es... — Respiró hondo —. No sé. Difícil. Lizzie se incorporó, y Bix vio que la había asustado. —¡Mamá, no llego! — chilló Gregory al desengancharse del pezón.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
rsn.org | Jennifer Egan
At a supportive-housing facility, chronically unhoused New Yorkers get a new lease on life, with a gym, a computer room—and on-site mental-health and medical services. Jessica moved into 90 Sands Street, a vast new supportive-housing facility in Brooklyn, on February 15th: a bleak, cloudy morning.
