Jennifer Egan
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Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000
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Novelist Rebecca Kauffman chooses work by authors from Ann Patchett to Zadie Smith resounding with music and musicians
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From Philip K Dick’s obtuse robots to Mark O’Connell’s guide to transhumanism, novelist Julian Gough picks essential reading for a helter skelter world
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Paul Maunder’s cycling memoir freewheels into nature writing, Jennifer Egan goes historical, and Manu Joseph’s third is a thriller in political clothing
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The Middlemarch author found fulfilment in a relationship that society shunned – no wonder her study of marriage captures a climate of change
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From moving memoirs to far-reaching fiction, novelists, poets and critics pick their best reads of the year
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On this week’s show, we examine the writing life with a Pulitzer winner who is not afraid to experiment and a genre-busting author with his most radical collection of short stories yetPodcast
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What the critics thought of Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach; Martin Amis’s The Rub of Time and Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
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The author of A Visit from the Goon Squad returns with a more conventional historical novel following the lives of a family in Brooklyn during and after the Depression
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From Edith Wharton to Jennifer Egan, the city has inspired countless stories, all of them sharing one major character – the metropolis itself
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More than 450 writers, including Colm Tóibín, Geraldine Brooks and Lydia Davis express ‘unequivocal’ opposition to his presidential candidacy
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Junot Díaz’s mix of ‘history, comics, sci-fi, and magic realism ‘ tops BBC Culture poll of US critics on the best fiction since 2000
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Author and editor of The Best American Short Stories 2014 explores the idea of anxiety at a Q&A to mark this year’s collection of hard-hitting stories
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From James Salter to Lorrie Moore and Patricia Highsmith, novelist Emma Straub is our guide for a tour of the best-imagined vacations
Book of the day The Candy House by Jennifer Egan review – information overload