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Favoriting June 13, 2022: Jennifer Egan, author, "The Candy House"

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<em><a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781476716763" target="_blank">The Candy House</a></em>, by Jennifer Egan
The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan
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The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan

Today: Jennifer Egan, author, "The Candy House"

• JenniferEgan.com, with excerpts of The Candy House

• The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan (2022)

• A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan (2011 Pulitzer Prize winner)

• The Image: A Guide To Pseudo-Events In America, by Daniel Boorstin (1962)

• NYT coverage of BeReal (May 10, 2022): “Once a day, at an unpredictable time, BeReal notifies its users that they have two minutes to post a pair of pictures.”

• Best places to buy a book, a list of Mark’s favorite online booksellers, on his Good Reports site

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  Jennifer Egan, author, "The Candy House"
Tomaš Dvořák  Game Boy Tune   Favoriting    
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  Mark's intro      
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  Interview with Jennifer Egan      
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  Mark's comments      
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Willie Nelson  With A Little Help From My Friends   Favoriting A Beautiful Time  Willie's 72nd album (age 89!) 
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Listener comments!

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Handy Haversack:

Hi, Mark and all the Techyons, particles and waves.
  6:00pm
Robm:

Hello fellow technoids
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ultradamno:

Mark! Techtonfectionists!
  6:02pm
David in London:

Evening Mark and all Technoids.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:02pm
Franco Twinkie:

Don't forget the techno impaired. Hey Mark.
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Fredericks:

Hey there Techniacs.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:02pm
tim from washington:

Hey Mark! Hey everybody else!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:03pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hi NFTechtonic fans!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:04pm
Handy Haversack:

Robm, ultradamno, David, Franco, Fredericks, tim, WHHenry: hey there!

ultradamno, not sure if you heard, but Adriene will be doing a three-hour fill-in for Olivia next week before Techtonic!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:06pm
ultradamno:

Fine John Oliver segment last night on the big tech guy's anti-competitive behavior and also a great Vice (on Showtime) segment on the predatory Axie game

@Handy Hiya! and no I had not, thank you!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:06pm
Webhamster Henry:

Here's an all-purpose excuse: Too much traffic, please try again.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:07pm
Bas NL:

Hi Mark! Hi Techcats!
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Mark Hurst:

@Handy @Robm @ultra @DiL @FrancoT @Fredericks @TimVonWash @Webham @Bas welcome! Thanks for joining!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:08pm
Mark Hurst:

@ultra yes the John Oliver piece is one of the items that I might mention briefly after the interview, time available. I might need to spend more time on the topic in a future show - Big Tech antitrust legislation has a real shot for the first time, but it also could fail...
  6:09pm
kevlicki:

Hi all! What have I missed so far?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:11pm
Handy Haversack:

Tidal currents are no joke in that river.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:11pm
melinda:

hi everyone
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:11pm
DjLorraine:

Just saying hi
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:12pm
Mark Hurst:

@kevlicki @melinda @DjL welcome, good to see you!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:12pm
tim from washington:

The East River - Mark's favorite place to chuck tech devices into. Coincidence that Mark chose this body of water? Hmmmmm.....
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:12pm
PaulRobeson1922:

Hi Hi Hi
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:12pm
Mark Hurst:

@PaulR hello hello hello
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:13pm
chresti:

Hi Mark and company!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:14pm
Mark Hurst:

Hi chresti
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:15pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi, Mark. The Pad-Man game for Atari was beyond lame. What a disappointment.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:15pm
Handy Haversack:

tim, I have seen side-scan sonar of the river bottom, and it's surprisingly clean! Only really heavy things seem to stick around. Everything else is whooshed out into the Atlantic or Long Island Sound. So look for Air Buds and tablets in Flushing Bay and Coney Island!
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Pomme d'Or:

Good evening Mark & Jennifer
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:16pm
Mark Hurst:

@KfHP I remember it so well.
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Mark Hurst:

@Pomme hello!
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Folsom:

@KfHP Adventure or Yar's Revenge are the best
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:16pm
Mark Hurst:

@Handy that's pretty cool (the side-scan, not the e-junk tumbling south along the river bottom)
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:17pm
Franco Twinkie:

I think I'm sitting on a gold mine.
  6:17pm
hoeg:

i just finished listening to your Ethan Guttman interview, it was AMAZING, thankyou
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:18pm
Mark Hurst:

@Folsom agreed. Space Invaders and Combat were pretty good, too. Also the football game had surprisingly rich gameplay
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:18pm
Mark Hurst:

@hoeg thanks! Glad you liked it.
  6:18pm
hoeg:

also HI all you lovely chatters and staffers
  6:22pm
Ed:

OMG - Jennifer Egan?!!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:23pm
Handy Haversack:

Evening, Hoeg! Very much agree with you on that Guttman interview. Crucial radio.
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Mark Hurst:

@Ed yes indeed
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:25pm
Handy Haversack:

A Jennifer Egan interview maybe even a bigger triumph than finding a copy of the Kool-Aid Man Atari 2600 game!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:25pm
tim from washington:

Defender was my jam.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:26pm
tim from washington:

I've got to split early so I'll come back to part 2 in in the archives. Thank you, Mark! Thanks Jennifer. This is a fascinating listen. I'm looking forward to reading Candy House.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:28pm
Mark Hurst:

@TimFW thanks!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:30pm
ultradamno:

Bloomberg article about Axie Infinity, the subject of the Vice piece I mentioned earlier, which plays into some of these themes, in a cryptocurrency based pyramid scheme kind of way www.bloomberg.com...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:32pm
PaulRobeson1922:

Spying is dead
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:32pm
ultradamno:

Oh, man. Philip Baker Hall has died.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:33pm
Folsom:

Mark, you ever get anywhere about interviewing Michael Chertoff?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:33pm
PaulRobeson1922:

Umm…. I’d like a word with Jennifer Egan‘s drug dealer (Character)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:34pm
Mark Hurst:

@Folsom no, tho I did try
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:40pm
PaulRobeson1922:

@Franco Twinkie: Hello, Franco
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:40pm
Bas NL:

Tech for connecting to the problems of others?
  6:40pm
Marie:

I love first person narrative novels for just that reason--love to be in another's head, so to speak
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Mark Hurst:

@Marie do you have a favorite 1st-person narrative novel?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:42pm
Mark Hurst:

Daniel Boorstin's book is called "The Image" and I have posted a link to it in the links section at left (or above, if you're reading this in the future)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:43pm
Mark Hurst:

And a link to a recent NYT story about the "BeReal" app is also posted at left.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:43pm
PaulRobeson1922:

Jefferson wrote man is a “imitative creature” in the context of children and the slavery question
  6:43pm
Marie:

Hi! Hm, well, I have quite a few that I love. One of them is called Kristin Lavransdattir--the story of one woman's life set in mideval Norway--it's actually never been out if print since it was first published in the 1930s.
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Mark Hurst:

@Marie thanks!
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PaulRobeson1922:

Daniel Boorstin is a reliable source!!!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:44pm
Franco Twinkie:

Pictures can enhance a literary experience - read the piece by Joan Acocella on Pinocchio in the current New Yorker.
  6:44pm
Marie:

Then there is Humboldt's Gift and Herzog, both by Saul Bellow. Happy to share! Thanks for this and all your work, Mark!
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Miss G:

Thank you for this interview Mark Hurst. I will listen to it again. Thank you Jennifer Egan -- I loved A Visit from the Goon Squad, and gave copies to friends. So looking forward to The Candy House!
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be11ows:

nice interview. another book i wanna read.
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Franco Twinkie:

I'm an avid reader, but I rely on my eyeballs for more than reading.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:47pm
Handy Haversack:

Very interesting talk, Mark! I don't know that I have any thoughts that would fit into the chatboard, but many full mind moments over here listening to Jennifer's thoughts on her process and the struggles she's trying to evoke.

Many thanks, Jennifer, for joining Mark and sharing with us.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:47pm
PaulRobeson1922:

Still one place to go… still one place to go
  6:49pm
Marie:

I would also suggest Islandia by August Tappan Wright--described as utopian fiction where the creates a whole new world/continent on earth and an American man travels there. It's amazing.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:49pm
Webhamster Henry:

This show is turning into Booktonic.
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Miss G:

*L* Webhamster Henry
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:50pm
Handy Haversack:

I recommend reading Mark's piece on subway reading, phones, and citizenship:

creativegood.com...
  6:52pm
Boulder Tom:

Has Mark ever had Dave Eggars on?
  6:53pm
Marie:

One more great first-person narrative, to me: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
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Miss G:

Marie I also loved that Murakami novel.
  6:53pm
yippie:

my friend is suing google. weisner v google llc 21-2228
  6:54pm
Marie:

Hey, Miss G--that is my fave by him @)
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:54pm
Pete from Hoboken:

Detroit is a Delta hub...but why there and not ATL?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:55pm
melinda:

wtf, I'm going to have to avoid the Detroit airport now. Or get some traveling reflectacles.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:55pm
dale:

why can't we use this surveillance state tech to stop mass shootings?
  6:55pm
Ochre Ogre:

THEY, scary bastards!
  6:55pm
Marie:

Let's use hive mind to think of a way (lawsuit) to get Fox off the air, or at least Tucker Carlson
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Miss G:

What ever happened to CV Dazzle?
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:56pm
Handy Haversack:

Many thanks, Mark!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:56pm
Jim the Poet:

Great show!
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Miss G:

Oh! Thank you Mark Hurst for a great show and for the links
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:57pm
Bas NL:

Thanks Mark! One for the Cloud!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:57pm
PaulRobeson1922:

Thanks Mark & Jennifer!! Peace & LoVe ya’ll
  6:57pm
Marie:

Thank you, Mark
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:57pm
Franco Twinkie:

David Foster Wallace was a good fiction writer, but I think his real talent was describing the real word. Read The Girl With Curious Hair, then read Consider The Lobster, then ask yourself which was more illuminating.
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PaulRobeson1922:

Still one place to go
  6:57pm
Ochre Ogre:

Marie- cracker carlson dont git me started!
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chresti:

Thanks Mark!
  6:57pm
yippie:

there are a lot more restrictions on free speech inside airports
  6:58pm
Marie:

I love David Foster Wallace.
"cracker carlson"--love it
  6:58pm
Ochre Ogre:

Thanks Mark, always informative!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:58pm
melinda:

nice Willie cover
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:58pm
Webhamster Henry:

'Till next week, Mark!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:59pm
Franco Twinkie:

You got it Marie.
  6:59pm
Ochre Ogre:

"cracker' as in honkie, heehee.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:59pm
Mark Hurst:

Thanks, friends, for helping me get by...
  6:59pm
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I 2nd that melinda
  7:02pm
Marie:

I have listened to this album so much (back when it first came out)
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:03pm
Handy Haversack:

Girl with Curious Hair by a country mile, Franco!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:05pm
Mark Hurst:

@Marie thanks for the book recs!
  7:08pm
Bea:

So cool you have Jennifer Egan on! My book club is reading The Candy House!!
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