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Jennifer Egan on storytelling in a data-hooked world

The TED Interview

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The Candy House by Jenifr Egan

Jenifr egan's new book is a dazzling alternate history of our present moment. We wanted to talk about the continued relevance of the novel in a world teeming with technological novelty. Egan manages to write books that flirt with psyphi futurism without falling into usual distopian tropes. Get ready to dive down some of those rabbit holes over the next hour.

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