Beetje reclame maken voor A Visit From the Goon Squad:
* Jennifer Egan heeft er een Pulitzer Prize, de National Book Critics Circle Award (voor de neus van Franzen met Freedom), New York Times Best Books of the Year etc. voor gewonnen. In DS was het trouwens ook één van de meest genoemde boeken in de top lijstjes van 2011/2012.
* HBO gaat er een tv-serie van maken.
* "Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, A Visit from the Goon Squad is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption."
* "Egan’s prose is stunning, funny, sexy—cool. Her stories reference Black Flag and the Dead Kennedys. She can write about an attractive kleptomaniac on a first date, a topic that seems dangerously cliché, and yet, by the end of opening paragraph, you’re hooked."
* "inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed"
* Geïnspireerd door Proust's À la Recherche du Temps Perdu en door The Sopranos

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* Structureel experimenteel (het midden tussen kortverhaal en roman, powerpoint hoofdstuk, etc) -> allicht voer voor discussie.
