Jennifer Egan: The Keep

Bookworm

KCRW

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2006

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Jennifer Egan researched classic Gothic fiction to develop a style that would deepen the terrors at the core of her new novel...

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:07.2	You are a human animal.
0:11.5	You are a very special breed.
0:15.0	Or you are the only animal.
0:18.5	Who can think, who can reason, who can read
0:21.5	From KCRW, Santa Monica,
0:24.8	I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
0:27.2	Today I'm happy to have
0:28.8	Jennifer Egan, the author
0:30.7	most recently of The Keep,
0:33.0	a novel published by Knauth.
0:35.4	We're particularly
0:36.6	thrilled to have Jennifer here because we had her on very
0:40.9	early in bookworms history when I fell in love with a short story of hers called Why China
0:47.4	that was in her collection of stories, Emerald City. She's the author as well of a novel,
0:53.5	Look at Me
0:54.4	and also another novel The Invisible Circus.
1:00.0	I'm very curious here
1:01.9	because the reader in a sense
1:06.1	has to go a little crazy while reading this book,
1:12.1	I was interested in how in control you are of what you might call the sub-effects,
1:21.2	those things that a reader comes to suspect.
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