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What’s Not to Like? – musings upon musings on Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad

Posted on September 30, 2012 by observeroftimes

When I saw a copy of Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad in one of the last surviving used bookstores I can visit on foot, all I remembered were references to its doubling as short story showcase and … Continue reading →

Posted in books to read before you die | Tagged A Visit from the Goon Squad, consumerism, David Foster Wallace, digital age, footnotes, Jennifer Egan, Kafka’s Wound, literary criticism, London Review of Books, negative reviews of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Pankaj Mishra, suicide, suicide in fiction, Will Self | Leave a comment
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