And I wanted to revisit him after he had done that and achieved that sort of first-name tech-icon status.
So I knew when I wrote that - I had a feeling that he would go on to invent social media. Tell us about him.ĮGAN: Well, he appears very briefly in "A Visit From The Goon Squad," where he predicts the impact of social media.ĮGAN: And he talks about how everyone will be connected. Let's get into one of these - the characters that the novel opens with, Bix Bouton, now a successful tech entrepreneur who can barely go anywhere without being recognized. And it really has kind of a technological origin.įADEL: Right. This general sense of things being connected is something we live with more and more.
But she told me their backstories stand alone.ĮGAN: When I was in one person's story, I didn't worry terribly about how they were connected to everyone else in that same way that our own sensibility - we are living our own lives and not necessarily thinking about the latticework of connection around us.ĮGAN: But I do think social media has made a lot of people more aware than they were before of the connections among us. JENNIFER EGAN: In the world that I've created, never trust a candy house is an expression that people use.įADEL: Meaning be careful of things that at first appear inviting.ĮGAN: And later, the phrase comes up again in a more positive light, which is a kind of aging rocker who's hoping that his, you know, remixing of old songs by this band that was really popular in the '90s will be a kind of candy house to bring in a whole generation of younger listeners.įADEL: "The Candy House" follows some of the same characters from Jennifer Egan's 2010 novel "A Visit From The Goon Squad." Their lives overlap. If it were possible to relive your memories and the memories of others, would you? It's a moral dilemma that the characters face in Jennifer Egan's latest book, "The Candy House."
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