Favorite parts from Vulture's interview with Jennifer Egan.

Friday, May 13, 2011

Favorite parts from Vulture's interview with Jennifer Egan.

“Sometimes there’s a sense of the book being too hot, literally. It just feels hard for me to have a private experience of an artifact that is so spoken of, so much in the culture in a particular moment.”
“Again, I’m not really a Twitter person so to some degree this maelstrom was not something I experienced firsthand. I also happened to be on kind of an off-the-grid farm in New Hampshire with my kids when the whole thing erupted.”
“I didn’t feel the pressure that I might have if I had said, “Now I’m going to address the future. What will the future look like?” I just kind of followed the sky and looked around and imagined what was there.”
“Like if my iPod doesn’t work, I do not run. It is not an option.”
[Songs she’s been listening to lately]: “”Telephone” and “Let’s Dance,” especially “Telephone.” They’re not good songs, I know that, but it’s not really about quality.”
“One of the things that’s so fascinating about Adrian Leblanc’s book Random Family is that she never once uses the word “I.” And that’s a very radical extreme, because she was clearly deeply intertwined in these peoples’ lives.”
“It’s not like I thought it was impossible to do it, but it didn’t seem conceivable I would. I think part of it is, honestly, I think sometimes it’s hard to imagine things that haven’t happened already.”
“I just want to try and write another book in under five or six years.”
“I’m really out of it in the world of youngish actresses. I know that when I originally — this will show you how long ago I was writing about [flameout celebrity] Kitty Jackson — I was thinking of Cameron Diaz.”