10/18/2011: Book Review: A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan - NYTimes
“Is there anything Egan can’t do in this mash-up of forms? Write successfully in the second person? Check. Parody celebrity journalism and David Foster Wallace at the same time? Check. Make a moving narrative out of a PowerPoint presentation? Check. Write about a cokehead music producer who demands oral sex from his teenage girlfriend during her friends’ band’s performance? Check. Narrate another chapter from the perspective of the above girlfriend’s best friend, standing at the same performance on the other side of said producer? Check. Compose a futuristic vision of New York? Check.” - Will Blythe
A Visit From The Goon Squad won the Pulitzer Prize last year, and unlike the Oscar, the Pulitzer actually means something, usually. I try to make it a habit of reading the books that win. I haven’t read this one yet, but I’m sure I will. Also, Two of the chapters of it have appeared in the last two BASS, so there’s that.
