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Did you know that Jennifer Egan was robbed by a motorcyclist in Spain at the age of twenty-two? That when she was little, she wanted to be a doctor, but then she tried to be an archeologist? That she\u2019s written exactly one celebrity profile and it\u2019s of Calvin Klein? And that she received a gratuitous amount of CK1, which she wore until it ran out? That her first apartment in New York City was on West 69th Street but she has also lived on East 7th Street (between First Avenue and Avenue A) and West 28th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues), but now she lives in Fort Greene? That she wrote her first (and unpublished) novel while studying abroad at Cambridge? That she was a reader for The Paris Review<\/em>? That she writes her first drafts by longhand? And her second?<\/p>\n

I have Jennifer Egan fever. I caught it at the beginning of last year, when I read \u201cAsk Me if I Care,\u201d a short story of hers that The New Yorker<\/em> had excerpted from her then-forthcoming novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad<\/em>. I read the other two stories The New Yorker<\/em> had published on my iPhone while getting a pedicure. It\u2019s a banal admission only worth recalling because I remember sitting in the salon\u2019s lounge long after the polish had dried and it was time to leave\u2014I had to read it all<\/em>, right then and there. After that, I read every single story she published, every novel she had written, every interview I could get my hands on. (I knew the obsession was bad when I started picking through the Amazon reviews.)<\/p>\n

Egan\u2019s prose is stunning, funny, sexy\u2014cool<\/em>. 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 clich\u00e9, and yet, by the end of opening paragraph, you\u2019re hooked. She\u2019s transparent about her writing process; honest about what she borrows and what she invents. It\u2019s not that she \u201cbeat\u201d Jonathan Franzen, though I see why some feel the need to pit<\/a> the two authors against one another. And it\u2019s not that she\u2019s perfect\u2014I have yet to encounter someone who liked The Keep\u2014<\/em>but maybe that\u2019s also part of the appeal.<\/p>\n

My Egan fever is how I found myself in the basement theater of the Crosby Street Hotel with a couple dozen other people for a new film series called \u201cUnder the Influence<\/a>,\u201d in which writers are asked to pick a film that has affected their work. We were there to watch Pulp Fiction<\/em>. With Egan. We had bought our tickets in April, before she had even won the Pulitzer. I sat one row behind her and about five seats to her right. When I laughed, I looked over to see if she had laughed, too. When I covered my ears in anticipation of a gunshot, I watched to see if she had flinched, too. When I saw her in the bathroom after the screening and entered a stall, only to see that the toilet\u2019s water was still spinning, I wondered\u2014for more than just a second\u2014whether I was about to use the same toilet seat as she.<\/p>\n

Egan\u2019s story of how she wrote Goon Squad<\/em> has been repeated on many occasions\u2014she was frustrated with writing the novel she was supposed to and so she began to write interlocking stories about a handful of characters\u2014but she admitted that evening that she owes a great debt to Quentin Tarantino for the way Goon Squad<\/em> plays with chronology and narrative. \u201cI had to completely let go of any kind of linear chronology,\u201d Egan told us before playing the movie. \u201cBut it was interesting how hard that was to do. There was something in me that didn\u2019t want to do it, even though I knew that the most fun of the book, even as I was working on it, was not<\/em> going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Egan had only seen Pulp Fiction<\/em> once before, in a theater sometime in 1994, and when the lights came up, she admitted she was shocked by what she had seen. \u201cI was just copying<\/em> this movie! I even have a character named Jules! Oh my God. In a way, it\u2019s slightly frightening. I mean, how much was I really influenced? I don\u2019t know. Not consciously, but it\u2019s really amazing how much happens without our knowing it.\u201d She paused, then offered analysis: \u201cThey\u2019re constantly talking about time. And in fact the whole rhythm of the film is about a task that needs to get done, a timeline, and then delays.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually didn\u2019t know you\u2019d only seen it once,\u201d said Michael Maren, the series\u2019s organizer. \u201cI assumed like a lot of people you\u2019d kind of gone and watched it over and over and over again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t really do that with movies. I don\u2019t have time,\u201d said Egan. \u201cBut I remember a lot of it. I also loved the constant counterpoint between outrageous cartoonish violence and domesticity. That\u2019s where so much of the hilarity comes from. It\u2019s like, you know, his wife is going to come home! So they\u2019re scrubbing the car!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBruce Willis\u2019s role struck me as being a lot more important than previous times when I\u2019ve seen it,\u201d offered Maren. \u201cMaybe it\u2019s because I was watching it that way. When Christopher Walken says to him, \u2018Let\u2019s hope you don\u2019t have to go through this war like your father did,\u2019 he kind of goes through that exact same war.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember not liking that thread very much the first time. I just wanted to get back to the other drama,\u201d said Egan. \u201cBut this time, I felt the connectedness of the two a little more. It has that Joycean, one-day feeling to it, in a way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis film is entirely about the dialogue,\u201d said Maren. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about delays, really,\u201d said Egan.<\/p>\n

Eventually, the discussion wound down. It was getting late, and wine and hor d\u2019oeuvres were promised. A long table was set up by McNally Jackson, and Egan sat behind it for the rest of the night, signing copies and greeting her fans. Toward the very end, my friend, also feverish, who had brought her hardcover copy of Goon Squad<\/em> for Egan to sign, approached the author, apologizing for bothering her so late in the evening. \u201cOh, don\u2019t apologize,\u201d Egan said to us, motioning at the stack of books. \u201cI\u2019m going to sign every copy here. Now, how do I spell your name?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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