Jennifer Egan

Kurt talks with the writer Jennifer Egan about A Visit from the Goon Squad, a novel about the music industry that jumps back and forth in time. The duo that make up Nortec Collective describes how their unique playful sound can only come from Tijuana. And a neuroscientist writes a book of short stories about […]

With director Julie Taymor out, will Spider-Man soar or splat? Jennifer Egan’s book A Visit from the Goon Squad goes inside the music business, with sleazeball executives, aging stars, and pathological journalists. And Kurt Andersen speaks with two Japan scholars about the imagination of disaster.

Live from the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a show devoted to the theme of fear — the kind that that can motivate us, and the kind that can stop us in our tracks. Andrew Bird and the Hands of Glory join us for a song about escape; comedian Hari Kondabolu riffs on fears of change; […]