Jennifer Egan is the author of six books and a collection of short stories. Her 2011 novel, “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” received the Pulitzer P

Jennifer Egan’s Fiction and Visions of the Future

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Jennifer Egan is the author of six books and a collection of short stories. Her 2011 novel, “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her subsequent novel, “Manhattan Beach,” a Second World War-era noir set in New York City, received the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. She has contributed fiction and nonfiction stories to a variety of publications, including the Times Magazine and The New Yorker. Egan was the subject of a Profile in 2017; her most recent story for the magazine, “What the Forest Remembers,” was published in January. Her latest book, “The Candy House,” a highly anticipated follow-up to “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” came out in April.

Deborah Treisman has been The New Yorker’s fiction editor since 2003. She joined the magazine as the deputy fiction editor in 1997. She is the host of two New Yorker podcasts, the Fiction Podcast and The Writer’s Voice, and edited the anthology “20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker.” In 2012, she received the Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction.