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🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Jennifer Egan is a journalist and writer whose novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad" won both the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Using a unique format -- including a whole chapter told through PowerPoint -- Egan nimbly explores the mystery and complexity of human life in the digital age. Her newest book, "The Candy House," poses similar questions around technology, memory and authenticity. In this excerpt from The TED Interview, the author talks candidly to host Steven Johnson about her creative process, considers the role of the novelist in a tech-driven world and makes an argument for how fiction can shift our consciousness. This episode is part of the TED Talks Daily summer book club, a series featuring talks and interviews to inspire your next great read.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Elise Hugh and you're listening to Ted Talks Daily, the Summer Book Club
0:08.3	series.
0:09.3	Today, we're highlighting an episode of the Ted interview podcast featuring novelist
0:13.9	Jennifer Egan.
0:15.7	You know her as the author of a visit from the Goon Squad and most recently, The Candy
0:19.8	House.
0:20.8	She sits down with host Steven Johnson to talk about her writing process and how she weaves
0:25.2	ideas about technology and the internet into her books.
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0:36.2	When you're staying at an Airbnb, you might be like me wondering, could my place be an
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0:44.6	I think about this all the time.
0:46.4	Sub, whose extra room in London was storing furniture until his mom had the idea to start
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0:55.6	Now, that extra room helps pay the mortgage.
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1:08.6	Welcome to the Ted interview.
1:10.2	I'm Steven Johnson.
1:11.9	If you've been following the news from the technology world, you might have noticed
1:16.1	that the headlines have gotten a little, well, strangely.
1:20.6	I mean, one big tech company is convinced that in the next few years, we'll all be moving
1:25.6	to some place called The Metaverse.
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