
Jennifer Egan on storytelling in a data-hooked world
The TED Interview
The Comedy of a Novel
"I'm not a big jokester in real life. I actually am terrible at remembering jokes," he says. "If something feels alive, you push harder into it,. And if i do that on the page, i find that it naturally leads to comedy."
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