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'...one of the basic (and unusual) structural features of Goon Squad is that we are not guaranteed to "see" any given character again after the chapter in which they feature concludes. The novel emphasizes the minor tragedy of every individual's impermanence: we are all doomed to become simply "a glint in the hazy memories" of others who may struggle even to recall us at all.'
— Aug 18, 2026 04:14PM
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'An implied narrative of the novel's decline maps onto a parallel cultural shift... the transition from the analog or material recording of music on vinyl albums to digital forms. ...Egan has commented that her organization of the novel into two "sides" was intended as an homage to "a form that's sadly gone—the LP, even the CD."'
— Aug 20, 2026 04:51PM
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"A novel reader or critic is also a traveler who leaves behind her own world in order to "dive" headfirst into another, fictional one, a "foreign country." We return from these pilgrimages back into our own world and selves, clutching treasured relics from the territories we've visited."
— Aug 16, 2026 09:55AM
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Kreilkamp reminiscing about the pop music and arts coverage in the Village Voice; "...the vividness of its profane, ridiculously insider debates inextricable from the thick layers of pulpy newsprint pages they spilled out of, the issues bloated by the NYC real estate and massage-parlor ads that subsidized them. (We never realized just how precariously an entire bohemian way of life rested upon...apartment ads"
— Aug 15, 2026 04:41PM