ThoughtGallery.org > Virtual Book Talk: Jennifer Egan’s Writing

Virtual Book Talk: Jennifer Egan’s Writing

Join us on YouTube Live for a virtual book talk with Jennifer Egan, the author of The Invisible Circus, Look at Me, Emerald City and Other Stories, The Keep, and A Visit From the Goon Squad. Her most recent novel, Manhattan Beach, a New York Times bestseller, was awarded the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Manhattan Beach takes place during the World War II era and tells the haunting and propulsive intertwined stories of heroine Anna Kerrigan, the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s only female diver, her father Eddie Kerrigan, who works for both the union and the mob, and nightclub owner Dexter Styles, Eddie’s complex and charismatic boss.

Jennifer will be joined in conversation by the Tenement Museum’s Associate Director of Visitor Services, Katie Baker-Barricks. They’ll focus on Egan’s earlier work and how it led her to a new genre for Manhattan Beach. And maybe we’ll get to find out how this strange time has dictated what she’s working on next!











When: Tue., Jul. 28, 2020 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Tenement Museum
103 Orchard St.
212-982-8420
Price: FREE/Suggested Donation
Buy tickets/get more info now
See other events in these categories:

Join us on YouTube Live for a virtual book talk with Jennifer Egan, the author of The Invisible Circus, Look at Me, Emerald City and Other Stories, The Keep, and A Visit From the Goon Squad. Her most recent novel, Manhattan Beach, a New York Times bestseller, was awarded the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Manhattan Beach takes place during the World War II era and tells the haunting and propulsive intertwined stories of heroine Anna Kerrigan, the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s only female diver, her father Eddie Kerrigan, who works for both the union and the mob, and nightclub owner Dexter Styles, Eddie’s complex and charismatic boss.

Jennifer will be joined in conversation by the Tenement Museum’s Associate Director of Visitor Services, Katie Baker-Barricks. They’ll focus on Egan’s earlier work and how it led her to a new genre for Manhattan Beach. And maybe we’ll get to find out how this strange time has dictated what she’s working on next!

Buy tickets/get more info now