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Thank you Hello and welcome back to the Dear Prudence Show.

Once again, and as always, I am your host, Daniel Mallory Ortberg.

With me in the studio this week is Jennifer Egan, the author of Manhattan Beach and five previous books of fiction.

A visit from the Goon Squad won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Granta McSweeney's, and the New York Times Magazine.

Jennifer, welcome.

Thank you.

And congratulations on the new book.

Thanks so much. How's everything going? How's the new book? How's walking around living your life? It's good. I mean, I'm excited because Manhattan Beach was chosen as a citywide read for New York, which is really thrilling to me because New York is my adopted home and really kind of directly inspired the book. So I feel excited to have so many New Yorkers reading it.

That is so great. I have never written a book about a city where the city later said, thank you. We're all going to read it now. Like, that's just kind of lovely.

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