In her new novel, "A Visit From the Goon Squad," she turns her attention to the imperiled music business, showing how digitization has turned an art form into an industry, and real music has been ...

“A Visit from the Goon Squad” is a book about time that tried to predict American life in 2020, and deserves to be revisited in 2020, ten years after its publication.

The National Book Critics Circle (I sit on the board of directors) bestowed its 2010 fiction prize on Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit From the Goon Squad” in recognition of the book’s brilliance ...

Jennifer Egan’s new novel, “A Visit From the Goon Squad,” is a medley of voices — in first, second and third person — scrambled through time and across the globe with a 70-page ...

Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit From the Goon Squad” is a lively novel in stories about Sasha, an assistant in the music business, and her boss, Bennie Salazar. It may be the smartest book you can ...

Jennifer Egan reads a passage from A Visit from the Goon Squad about a woman in her mid-thirties who must confront her long-standing compulsion to steal. Skip to Nav; Skip to Main; Skip to Footer; ...

In the novel “A Visit From the Goon Squad,” Jennifer Egan explores the relentless passage of time on individual lives, set against the backdrop of the rock music business.

A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan, read by Roxana Ortega, BBC Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, 10 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-60283-915-1.

“A Visit from the Goon Squad” spans fifty years, jumping back and forth in time, from the 1970s to an imagined version of the 2020s. In fact, time itself is practically a character in Egan’s book, ...

Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit From the Goon Squad” is a lively novel in stories about Sasha, an assistant in the music business, and her boss, Bennie Salazar. It may be the smartest book you can ...