Jennifer Egan

Location Info

Map

Benaroya Hall

200 University St.
Seattle, WA 98101

Category: Music Venues

Region: Downtown

Photos

4 user reviews	Write A Review
Save to foursquare	0

Related Content

• The Weekly Wire: This Week's Recommended Events
  February 1, 2012
• This Year's Pulitzer Prize Winner For Fiction is Also Some of the Best Music Writing You'll Read All Year
  April 19, 2011
• The Short List: This Week's Recommended Shows
  May 16, 2012
• Sleepy Sun
  May 9, 2012
• Miike Snow
  April 4, 2012

More About

• Jennifer Egan
• Goon Squad
• Patti Smith
• Books and Literature
• Arts, Entertainment, and Media

Like this Story?

Sign up for the Events Newsletter: What's happening in town? From underground club nights to the biggest outdoor festivals, our top picks for the week's best events will always keep you in on the action.

Privacy Policy Cancel Continue

Rock lit is on the rise. Soon after Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids won the 2010 National Book Award, Brooklyn-based Jennifer Egan was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for her tremendous fourth novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad. Goon Squad effectively Proust-icizes the rock memoir genre by spinning out tales of a variegated cast of characters, from Bennie, the former '80s punk leader of fictitious The Flaming Dildos turned millionaire New York record exec, to Lou, a rock star father attempting to impress his estranged kids with an African safari, and Dolly, a failed publicist reduced to working on a Hollywood-style image overhaul for a South American dictator. By the end of the book, Egan, a finessed and wildly creative writer, ties up all of these characters through bonds of love, blood, and rock 'n' roll. (Presented by Seattle Arts & Lectures.) ERIN K. THOMPSON
Wed., Feb. 1, 7:30 p.m., 2012