"A Visit From the Goon Squad" is structured like an album (not a CD), with cleverly labeled A and B sides. The chapters sound like song titles, beginning with "Found Objects," in which a woman ...

“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 characters are less sympathetic than you suspect she intends them to be. Yet A Visit from the Goon Squad remains highly readable.

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.

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 follows 13 short stories that move from past to present, all of which connect back to Bennie Salazar, a record company executive, and his assistant, Sasha. 2022’s The ...

Twelve years after 'A Visit from the Goon Squad,' author Jennifer Egan employs contemporary sci-fi themes for its sequel, 'The Candy House.' ...

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Egan’s best-selling novels A Visit from the Goon Squad and its sequel The Candy House are getting the TV treatment in a big way as A24 has optioned the rights to the books ...

Olivia Wilde Confirmed to Direct TV Adaptation of ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’ from A24 The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and its 2022 follow-up "The Candy House" are being adapted to a TV series.

The stories shift back and forth in time from the 1970s to the present and into the near future. And as for the "Goon Squad" of the title – that refers to time robbing characters of their youth.