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The International Childrens Festival is an interactive, educational event that allows children of all ages to travel the world in a single day. More than 20 Embassies host educational booths that highlight their countries rich cultural heritage, expose participants to international customs, and provide an important global perspective.
The Festival is hosted by Meridian International Center and THIS for Diplomats, in partnership with Cultural Tourism DC and the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. Now in its sixth(6) year, the new Ronald Reagan Building venue provides additional capacity, Metro access, and brings the event downtown just steps away from the White House and National Mall.
A highlight of Meridians educational outreach program, the Festival provides vital and unique programming -free of charge- to children and their parents.
Performance Groups
12:30 pm - Tinkus - Pachamama - Bolivia
Performed by FC Pachamama
presented by the Embassy of the Plurinational State of Bolivia
1:00 pm - Opening Ceremony
The Honorable Vincent C. Gray, Mayor of DC
The Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton, U.S. House of Representatives
Co-Chairs Judy Heisley Bishop and Pilar Frank O Leary
Mistress of Ceremonies, NBC4 Anchor and Reporter Angie Goff
1:10 pm - International Childrens Parade
Children in traditional dress representing Afghanistan, El Salvador, Egypt, Fiji, Guatemala, Israel, Kenya, Norway, Slovak Republic, St Kitts and Nevis, and the U.S. will cross the stage with their country flag, and exit into the exhibit hall.
1:20 pm - Kale Ukule Thiyala - Sri Lanka
Performed by Umanada Weerasinghe
1:30 pm - Indang Dance and the Plate Dance - West Sumatra/Indonesia
Performed by Rumah Gadang Group USA
1:45 pm - Dances of Eastern Europe - Eastern Europe
Performed by Carpathia Folk Dance Ensemble
Traditional dances from Romania, Ukraine, Poland and the Roma followed by a Macedonian dance lesson.
2:00 pm - Deutschland in der Welt des Funballs (Germany in the Soccer World) - Germany
Performed by the German School Washington, DC presented by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
2:15 pm - La Bayadere Duet Act I - Russia
Performed by the Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington, DC
2:30 pm - Lezginka - Azerbaijan
Performed by the Karabakh Foundation Dancers
2:45 pm - A Medley of Irish Dances - Ireland
Performed by the O Neill-James School of Irish Dancing
3:00 pm - Pinot and Augustine - France
Performed by Happenstance Theatre presented by Alliance Française de Washington
3:15 pm - Ahava Mizrahit - Middle Eastern Love - Israel
Performed by Kesem presented by the Embassy of Israel
3:30 pm - The Cultural Academy for Excellence presents: Positive Vibrations Youth Steel Orchestra, an Interactive Steel Band Concert - Trinidad and Tobago
Performed by Positive Vibrations Youth Steel Orchestra(PVYSO) presented by the Cultural Academy for Excellence and the Embassy of Trinidad and Tobago
3:50 pm - Thank You, Farewell, and Closing Dance Party!
City(s) = Washington DC; State(s) = DC; Country = USA.
Title = Meridian International Childrens Festival, The Ronald Reagan Building, Washington DC, US - Pictures.
Keywords = International Childrens Festival, Ronald Reagan Building, Washington DC, US,International Trade Center, Embassies, educational booths , cultural heritage, Meridian International Center, Cultural Tourism DC, Carpathia Folk Dance Ensemble,FC Pachamama,Embassy Bolivia, German School Washington, Happenstance Theatre, Francaise de,Karabakh Foundation Dancers,Kesem Embassy of Israel,Kirov Academy of Ballet,O Neill James School of Irish Dancing,PVYSO,Trinidad and Tobago Embassy,Rumah Gadang Group
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But in other news, I really like this outfit.ReplyDelete
- ChelseabirdJune 25, 2011 at 7:28 AM
I love a good learning experience, and also the fact that you're at Tempe Marketplace!I miss it there so much!ReplyDelete
LOVE your cute hair do!
bangs would be cute. i want bangs too. maybe ill cut them today! you should do it!ReplyDelete
ps cute scarf!
i went shopping today, one of my favorite shops in spain (blanco) is -50% in EVERYTHING so i couldn't help it.ReplyDelete
there were scarves all around, but i told myself: it's boiling, where the heck are you going with a scarffff??? :S
I've been wanting bangs lately too!! except I'm too scared... (:ReplyDelete
You look so good in those glasses! I'm a little bit jealous, since I love that model...ReplyDelete
You look cute in those glasses! I think you'd look great with bangs too.ReplyDelete
You're so cuttttteeee! And I love your hair!!ReplyDelete
- Skye von AchenJune 25, 2011 at 9:34 AM
I think I may have to try this Three-Twisted Buns hairstyle today.. SO cute!ReplyDelete
- Marilyn FreemanJune 25, 2011 at 1:20 PM
Cute outfit! That scarf looks great with that shirt. Ever since you told me the other day that you want bangs I keep thinking about doing a pros and cons bangs post. In short, you should wait until the weather cools because sweaty bangs are no fun! Other than that they're great! I hardly ever have to wax/pluck your eyebrows and they look so cute. You definitely need to be committed though but it doesn't seem like you'd have a problem with that.ReplyDelete
aw you still make it look good, girl!ReplyDelete
I love this outfit, and I think the scarf looks really good! I tried to wear a scarf the other day... it took me all of 5 seconds to realize that they don't work for summer here either. We'll just have to dream of autumn when we can wear them again :) xoxoReplyDelete
- yen yiJune 25, 2011 at 6:40 PM
I love your hair....how do u do it? it's amazing!ReplyDelete
I have that bag! I love it. I used it so much and put so much stuff in it one of the handles came unsewn (not a word but I'm using it) on one side.ReplyDelete
- AshleeNevaJune 26, 2011 at 10:07 AM
Your hair looks so cute! I want to try bangs, too, but the heat of summer seems a bad time to try it...I know I will end up bobby-pinning them to the top of my head.ReplyDelete
- Holly KeenanJune 26, 2011 at 3:42 PM
I like the way you wore the scarf- I don't think its too big for it at all! And I'm loving the combination here, I have this top and I'll definitely be saving this for inspiration :)ReplyDelete
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I adore the scarf. I may have to go meander antique plaza myself.ReplyDelete
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Oh my gosh, I LOVE this outfit. Preppy and nerdy and awesome! Oh, and I totally rolled my ankles in a few pictures recently and noticed the same thing. It's a little weirder on film than it seems like it is in real life haha!ReplyDelete
You are so cute! I love this outfit.ReplyDelete
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Steam client for serverside perhaps; For desktop games, I doubt Valve would be far behind on that. It would be really smart of them to target at least Android IMO.
Steam client for serverside perhaps; For desktop games, I doubt Valve would be far behind on that. It would be really smart of them to target at least Android IMO.
Would be certainly interesting to have got a Linux client. Best would be of course when you could buy a game once and run it on any plattform possible. I don't see the reason in buying specific binaries. Caster can be converted usually using the demo binaries too, but maybe that does not apply to all games. Buy once, play on the plattform you just use, thats the way to go.
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I'll just wait for something official. Like Gabe adopts a Penguin(for a Zoo) and names him Mr.Freeman.
Once a major distributor starts supporting linux I think they will discover lots of people who never buy any games starting to spend their money.
And steam would be ideal, almost as easy installing games via steam as we're used to via apt-get/yum.
I for one would buy more games. I hate dual-booting, so the effort of playing a game is not worth it. I'm typically a casual gamer ("lots" of kids, I don't have the time for extended periods of hard core gaming any more) and don't play games since I can't fire up a game for 30 minutes of entertainment (which usually stretches into the late hours of the night) without spending several minutes dualbooting. Which also means that It'l take time getting back into where I was before I started gaming as well. (Hibernate on linux, boot windows, play, play, shutdown windows, restore hibernated linux works fairly well)
I'm definitely going to buy much more games once (casual) games are more available! (And games like Dragon Age) Wine is great, as long as a game works "out-of-the-box". When "fiddling" is needed, I don't have the time.
Might I remind everyone here, that as far as we know, UT3/Linux port was -ready-, but was never released due to some undisclosed (legal?) reason.
There's a ----long---- way between having a launcher script that may or may not support Linux to a full blown Linux version release.
For now, we're left with ID-software and LGP (which hopefully is "just" resting).
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Too bad my swing didn't match up with the view.
Rolling coast to coast (TPC sawgrass and River Rock in Ventura CA)
My TT Tag went to Charleston, SC to Patriot's Point Links with my wife's bag to see what the ground looks like without snow (haven't seen earth since early December). May not have been Kiawah, but still Heaven from Wisconsin.
Love the shots guys! Makes me jealous as we're going to get hit again tonight with snow. Luckily it's all going to melt (fingers crossed) through the week! Hoping that one of the courses will open this weekend for my first 2013 round!
This thread needs to be a sticky Mike!
I keep forgetting to snap a pic while on the course. Will be in the 70's later this week. Hopefully the new bag comes in and I can add the bag tag to it.
On Monday, the 11th, mine was loaded on the cart waiting to start a pro scratch tournament at Walden on Lake Conroe, Conroe, TX. Just wish the golf played by our foursome had been as good looking as the tag.
Back on the west coast and of course my TT bag tag came with me
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Legit!!!! I have never heard of such a thing. Very cool. Work on those wedges he made famous too!
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Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, A Visit from the Goon Squad is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.
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Q: Ok so tell us, what exactly constitutes a "visit from the goon squad"?
A: I knew the title of this book before I knew almost anything else. So I, too, entered the project in a state of wondering who the Goon Squad was, exactly. In addition to Proust, whose In Search of Lost Time I was working my way through as I wrote Goon Squad, my other primary literary (if you will) influence was The Sopranos, whose polyphonic structure I found deeply compelling. So I guess you might say that there are goons in my book's genome. The book is certainly full of people who feel beaten up in one way or another—disappointed, out of luck, gypped of what they once expected and still feel they deserve—but these hardships aren't the work of particular enemies so much as life's vicissitudes. Without giving anything away, I'll say that the reader's understanding of who the real goon is accrues over the course of the book in much the way that my own comprehension of life's extreme brevity has overtaken me as I've pushed into my forties. And that's all I'm going to say!
Q: In the thirteen chapters in this book we meet a large cast of characters and come to see, chapter by chapter, how all of their lives are connected, and often entangled, in surprising ways. Where did you get the idea to have their stories unfold in this way?
A: It happened organically, and I was led by little more than my own curiosity. I started with "Found Objects," the first chapter in the book, and found myself intrigued by the the brief mention of Bennie Salazar, who sprinkles gold in his coffee and sprays pesticide in his armpits. I thought: Why would someone do those things? And from that question came the next piece, "The Gold Cure." In that one, there's a mention of Bennie's ex-wife, Stephanie, who plays tennis at a country club. And I thought: Hmm, what's Stephanie's story, and how did her marriage to Bennie end? So I wrote "A to B." Small, lateral observations in a character's life would catch my eye much as they do in my own: I'm forever watching people and wondering: Who is that person? Where is she going right now? What does his apartment look like? What expression does he have when he's completely alone? And of course, there's no way to answer those questions without violating people's privacy! But in fiction, I can go anywhere I want.
Things really got interesting when the new pieces I was working on began to extend their tentacles to a few pieces I had already written. One of those was "Goodbye, My Love," which I wrote in the late nineties in almost exactly the form it takes in the book. I was standing in the shower one night (the site of many of my inspirations for Goon Squad, for some reason) when I suddenly realized that Sasha, the thief in "Found Objects," is the same person, years later, as the runaway in "Goodbye My Love." They had the same history—no father—and both protagonists had even stolen a wallet! And yet it wasn't until that shower that I saw the connection.
Q: It seems that Bennie, former punk rocker turned music industry executive and Sasha, his assistant, are the two people around whose lives most of the other people in this book connect. Yet Bennie and Sasha know very little of each other's pasts or, as things unfold, futures. Can you talk a little about how they anchor the book?
A: I think that what interested me about the Bennie-Sasha relationship is that it's coincidental: they're ten years apart in age, with completely diverse pasts and present-day lives, yet they're thrown together by circumstance (Sasha works for Bennie) and form a strong bond that is, in its way, deeply intimate for a time. So many relationships are like that—dictated mostly by chance, yet meaningful on their own limited terms—but I don't feel like I read much about those relationships. So I began with that intersection of Bennie and Sasha, and followed it as it fanned out into each of their private lives and then their pasts and futures, and then the private lives and pasts and futures of some other people connected to each of them. It was an instinctive unfolding, with Bennie and Sasha as its starting and endpoint.
Q: There are so many wonderful people in this book. Are there any you are particularly fond of or had an especially good (or especially difficult) time writing about?
A: I had a ball writing about many of these folks. The pieces I enjoyed working on most were probably those that commingle absurdity with logic; "Selling the General," for example, in which a disgraced publicist is hired to rehabilitate the reputation of a genocidal dictator in an unspecified thirdworld country, or the part of "A to B," when the ailing rock star unveils his plan for a publicity/suicide tour. In general my comfort zone is as far away as possible from my own life, so I tend to have more fun writing from a male point of view, for example, than from one more reminiscent of my own, like the teenage female narrator of "Ask Me if I Care." The hardest character to write was probably Lou, Bennie's mentor—a selfish man who wreaks havoc in many people's lives, including those of his children. As always with such a character, the challenge is to make sure he's compelling and complex—not simply alienating—and there's often some trial and error before I manage to strike that balance.
Q: You have said you are interested in the role of chance and time in people's lives. How big a role do you think chance actually plays in most people's lives?
A: Well, an enormous one—starting with the circumstances we're born into. Beyond that, chance probably has the most impact on lives that are relatively privileged: one needs to have some choices, and some physical mobility, to be available to a wide array of chance occurrences. Presuming that one has the luxury of getting some education, choosing a job, picking a partner, etc.—I think that many lives play out as a counterpoint between random elements of chance and the gravitational pull of what we already know, and have come from.
Q: Music is a huge part of A Visit from the Goon Squad. Why did you decide to make music so significant and do you think it is fair to say that in one way or another it is what connects every character in the book?
A: Yes, I think that's fair to say. And given that my obsession in Goon Squad is time and its workings, I guess it's no surprise that I ended up writing about music (which also plays an enormous part in Proust's novel), because the interaction between time and music is so complex. In one sense, music is timeless—it transports us instantly back to periods of our lives that are long gone, and makes us feel like we're fully back in their midst. Yet in a cultural sense, music marks the passage of time like almost nothing else; the music of the sixties counterculture or the eighties punk rock scene will never be new again, much as we might still enjoy it—in fact, it's an indelible reminder that the cultural movements that produced it are ancient history. And finally, all of my books are in some sense investigations of the evolution of technology and its impact on people's lives. This time, the music industry—so ravaged by digitization—became another lens through which to look, even peripherally, at some ramifications of technological change.
Q: You capture the music industry so well, from the early punk rock scene of nineteen-seventies San Francisco, populated by bands like Flipper and The Damned, to a current day boardroom meeting where Bennie actually serves cow patties to his board members as a metaphor for the shit they are forcing him to serve to the public. How do you know this world so well?
A: The truth is, I only know it well as a consumer. I've always wanted to dig my way into the music industry somehow, and have tried more than once to pursue nonfiction stories in that realm (at one point I was supposed to write for the New York Times Magazine about a pair of identical twin female rappers who became the basis for the Stop/Go sisters in "The Gold Cure"). I guess that my yen to be a music industry insider in some ways motivated Goon Squad, but any expertise I might seem to possess is purely the product of research; I read a few books and talked at great length, more than once, with an extremely helpful music producer/mixer. The one part of the industry that I do know, though, is what it feels like to be a teen who hopes music will transform or subsume her. Although I haven't been to a rock concert in years, that's a feeling I'll never forget, and enjoyed tapping into again.
Q: There is a chapter in this book called "Great Rock & Roll Pauses" which is an intriguing concept in and of itself but on top of that, it's written in the form of a PowerPoint presentation! So, first, what is a great rock and roll pause? And what inspired this chapter in this particular form?
A: I'm not sure that the term "rock & roll pause" is generally used, but I got the idea from a book by Jacob Slichter, the drummer of a band called Semisonic. Semisonic's most famous song, "Closing Time," contains what Slichter calls a "Clearmountain pause," named after Bob Clearmountain, who produced and mixed the song, and is apparently known for inserting pauses into the music he works on. I can't say exactly why the idea of musical pauses caught hold of me, but it did. On a separate track, I'd also become obsessed with the idea of writing a story in PowerPoint—a program I did not own and had never used. I remember exactly when that idea came to me: I was reading an article about the Obama campaign's turnaround two summers ago, and it mentioned that a particular PowerPoint presentation about the campaign's shortcomings had led to a successful strategy shift. The fact that the presentation in question wasn't referred to as a "paper," or a "document" or a "memo," but as a "PowerPoint," really struck me. I thought: PowerPoint has become a literary genre; I'd love to write a story in it. This proved to be a long and convoluted process; I'd thought I could somehow do it without actually buying PowerPoint (it's expensive!), and when I finally did spring for it, I found it incredibly limiting and hard to use. I attempted a story that failed, and assumed that would be the end of it. But having bought PowerPoint, I was finally able to open and read other people's PowerPoint's, and as with any genre, reading in it was ultimately inspiring.
After I had sold Goon Squad, which I (and my publisher) considered to be complete, I had a brainwave about how to combine rock & roll pauses and PowerPoint into a narrative written by a 12-year old girl in the future, as part of her journal. I became absolutely consumed with the project of writing that PowerPoint. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done—I write fiction in longhand, so just staring at a computer screen for a many hours made my brain ache—but I was finally able to make something happen.
Q: It seems the idea of the pause is very much at work in your book—in the spaces between when people last met or between who they once were (as one of your characters says pre-marriage, pre-parenthood, pre-money, pre-hard drug renunciation, pre-responsibility of any kind) and who they are now. What intrigues you about the pause?
A: You're right, the book is all about pauses. Unconsciously, I think this must be what intrigued me about the idea of pauses in songs when I first encountered it. Let's face it—human life is a pause. It's tiny, and in the larger scheme it hardly registers against the mysterious magnitude of what precedes and follows it. But it's all we've got, and it's sweet and bitter and powerful. This is what Jules ends up saying in "A to B," when he tells his sister, "Yes, everything is ending. But not yet." In retrospect, I think I wanted to design a book that consciously occupied and explored that very small, yet vividly powerful, "not yet."
Q: A Visit from the Goon Squad covers a wide geographical sweep. While much of the action takes place in New York City and San Francisco, you also take readers to Africa, to Italy, to a secret compound inhabited by a third world dictator. How important is setting in your fiction?
A: I don't want to sound over-dramatic, but for me, setting (with its component parts of mood and atmosphere) is literally everything. Without it, I can't begin, and often a setting is all I have when I do. This was true of virtually every piece in Goon Squad; in "Found Objects," all I had going in was the feel of that hotel bathroom, with the wallet in plain view. I didn't know who was seeing it, or what she would do, or why. In "Goodbye My Love," I was moved by the grand decrepitude of Naples, with its decaying palazzi and multitude of street thieves. Even in "Great Rock and Roll Pauses," for all my interest in both pauses and PowerPoint, my entry to the story was the feeling of the California desert at night. In almost every case, I began with a place, or even an atmosphere that precedes place, and out of that came people, and events, and eventually a story. It's been this way with all of my fiction, from the very beginning.
Q: Bennie gets a surprise visit from one of his former band mates Scotty Hausmann, once the young star but now a down and out part-time custodial worker for the city. Scotty says to Bennie, "I came for this reason . . . I want to know what happened between A and B." Tell us about this idea of A to B as you actually divide the book into two parts titled A and B, what is different about the lives we see in each of those sections?
A: Well, "A" and "B" mean a lot of things in this book. First, I conceived of this book not as a novel or a story collection, but as an LP: a narrative that unfolds in segments that contrast a great deal with one another, but contain a range of styles and tell a story over time. Like any LP, it has an A side and a B side, organized on the same principles of evolution and contrast. In our era of atomized song-buying, the LP is not just a physical relic, but a conceptual one—which is partly why I wanted to honor and exploit it as a structural model in this book. But given that the book's subject, to a large extent, is change over time, "A to B" is also a kind of shorthand for that change. If Goon Squad is about pauses, then "A to B" is the space inside of which the pauses takes place.
Q: "Pure Language," the last chapter in the book, takes place in a futuristic Manhattan where babies use handsets; the media world has survived something called the "Bloggescandals"; one character is writing a dissertation on the phenomenon of "word casing," a term for words that no longer have meaning outside quotation marks; the use of devices for communication leads someone to describe another person as someone who "lived in his pocket." What inspired this chapter? Are you nervous about the future of language?
A: I think we all are; it's impossible to contemplate the speed of technological change, and the magnitude of the economic and cultural and environmental impact of those changes, without getting nervous about where the hell we're going to find ourselves in twenty years—much less two hundred. So yes, I'm nervous. But more immediately (maybe this is why I'm a writer), I'm fascinated, and curious. I can't help imagining forward. There may be something apotropaic about these imaginings—a hope that conceiving of a water wall protecting Manhattan from its rivers means that there won't ever actually be one. But what I often end up feeling, even as I experience vertigo at the thought of the future—is that human beings are immensely resourceful, and capable of great beauty and genius, and that language and inner life will survive and even thrive because of those qualities, whatever threats they may face.
Q: I don't want to give anything away about the ending of A Visit from the Goon Squad but it really seems to suggest that music (and the music industry) throughout the book has in many ways been used as a metaphor for language. Is that so? Can you talk about this connection between music and language?
A: I think that's right. The point of connection between music and language is that both are deep and basic forms of human expression. At the moment, they both feel imperiled, from a business standpoint (will there still be publishing or a music industry in the future?) and, more ominously, from a creative standpoint (will language and literary creation be debased by texting shorthand and the plagiaristic 'sampling' mentality of Web culture, as the music industry has been?) Culturally and humanistically, these are vast, gaping questions. I think that, finally, "Pure Language"—and in some sense all of A Visit from the Goon Squad—is my attempt to answer them.
From the Hardcover edition.
"Pitch perfect. . . . Darkly, rippingly funny. . . . Egan possesses a satirist's eye and a romance novelist's heart."
—The New York Times Book Review
"At once intellectually stimulating and moving. . . . Like a masterful album, this one demands a replay."
—The San Francisco Chronicle
"A new classic of American fiction."
"Audacious, extraordinary."
—Philadelphia Inquirer
"A spiky, shape-shifting new book. . . . A display of Egan's extreme virtuosity."
—The New York Times
"Wildly ambitious. . . . A tour de force. . . . Music is both subject and metaphor as Egan explores the mutability of time, destiny, and individual accountability post-technology."
—O, The Oprah Magazine
"The smartest book you can get your hands on."
—Los Angeles Times
"A rich and unforgettable novel about decay and endurance, about individuals in a world as it changes around them. . . . [Egan] is one of the most talented writers today."
—The New York Review of Books
"It ends in the same place it starts, except that everything has changes, including you, the reader."
—The New Republic
"Clever. Edgy. Groundbreaking. . . . Features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human."
—The Chicago Tribune
"Egan's bravura fifth book samples from different eras (the glory days of punk; a slick, socially networked future) and styles (sly satire, moving tragedy, even PowerPoint) to explore the interplay between music and the rough rhythms of life."
"Told with both affection and intensity, Goon Squad stands as a brilliant, all-absorbing novel for the beach, the woods, the air-conditioned apartment or the city stoop while wearing your iPod. Stay with this one."
—Alan Cheuse, NPR's All Things Considered
"Brilliant, inventive. . . . Emboldening. It cracks the world open afresh. . . . Would that Marcel Proust could receive [a copy]. It would blow his considerable mind. . . . Expect to inhale Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad. Then expect it to lodge in your cranium and your breastbone a good long while."
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Frequently dazzling. . . . Egan's expert flaying of human foibles has the compulsive allure of poking at a sore tooth: excruciating but exhilarating too."
—Entertainment Weekly
"If Egan is our reward for living through the self-conscious gimmicks and ironic claptrap of postmodernism, then it was all worthwhile. . . . [A] triumph of technical bravado and tender sympathy. . . . Turn up the music, skip the college reunion and curl up with The Goon Squad instead."
—The Washington Post
"A Visit From the Goon Squad should cement [Egan's] reputation as one of America's best, and least predictable, literary novelists."
—Taylor Antrim, The Daily Beast
"Brilliantly structured. . . . We are pulled right in. . . . [Egan is] a boldly intellectual writer who is not afraid to apply her equally powerful intuitive skills to her ambitious projects."
"This is art at its best—as a bulwark against the goon, as it embodies everything at once."
—Austin American Statesman
"An exhilarating, big-hearted, three-headed beast of a story. . . . We see ourselves in all of Egan's characters because their stories of heartbreak and redemption seem so real they could be our own, regardless of the soundtrack. Such is the stuff great novels are made of."
"For all its postmodern flourishes, Goon Squad is as traditional as a Dickens novel. . . . [Egan's] aim is not so much to explode traditional storytelling as to explore how it responds to the pressures and opportunities of the digital age."
"Egan has accomplished the tricky feat of using metafiction techniques without sacrificing old-fashioned story-telling. . . . A Visit from the Goon Squad has a circuitous structure that seems almost designed for our Internet rewired brains."
—The Wall Street Journal
1. A Visit from the Goon Squad shifts among various perspectives, voices, and time periods, and in one striking chapter (pp. 234–309), departs from conventional narrative entirely. What does the mixture of voices and narrative forms convey about the nature of experience and the creation of memories? Why has Egan arranged the stories out of chronological sequence?
2. In "A to B" Bosco unintentionally coins the phrase "Time's a goon" (p. 127), used again by Bennie in "Pure Language" (p. 332). What does Bosco mean? What does Bennie mean? What does the author mean?
3. "Found Objects" and "The Gold Cure" include accounts of Sasha's and Bennie's therapy sessions. Sasha picks and chooses what she shares: "She did this for Coz's protection and her own—they were writing a story of redemption, of fresh beginnings and second chances" (pp. 8–9). Bennie tries to adhere to a list of no-no's his shrink has supplied (p. 24). What do the tone and the content of these sections suggest about the purpose and value of therapy? Do they provide a helpful perspective on the characters?
4. Lou makes his first appearance in "Ask Me If I Care" (pp. 39–58) as an unprincipled, highly successful businessman; "Safari" (pp. 59–83) provides an intimate, disturbing look at the way he treats his children and lover; and "You (Plural)" (pp. 84–91) presents him as a sick old man. What do his relationships with Rhea and Mindy have in common? To what extent do both women accept (and perhaps encourage) his abhorrent behavior, and why to they do so? Do the conversations between Lou and Rolph, and Rolph's interactions with his sister and Mindy, prepare you for the tragedy that occurs almost twenty years later? What emotions does Lou's afternoon in "You (Plural)" with Jocelyn and Rhea provoke? Is he basically the same person he was in the earlier chapters?
5. Why does Scotty decide to get in touch with Bennie? What strategies do each of them employ as they spar with each other? How does the past, including Scotty's dominant role in the band and his marriage to Alice, the girl both men pursued, affect the balance of power? In what ways is Scotty's belief that "one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out" (p. 98) confirmed at the meeting? Is their reunion in "Pure Language" a continuation of the pattern set when they were teenagers, or does it reflect changes in their fortunes as well as in the world around them?
6. Sasha's troubled background comes to light in "Good-bye, My Love" (pp. 208–33). Do Ted's recollections of her childhood explain Sasha's behavior? To what extent is Sasha's "catalog of woes" (p. 213) representative of her generation as a whole? How do Ted's feelings about his career and wife color his reactions to Sasha? What does the flash-forward to "another day more than twenty years after this one" (p. 233) imply about the transitory moments in our lives?
7. Musicians, groupies, and entertainment executives and publicists figure prominently in A Visit from the Goon Squad. What do the careers and private lives of Bennie, Lou, and Scotty ("X's and O's"; "Pure Language"); Bosco and Stephanie ("A to B"); and Dolly ("Selling the General") suggest about American culture and society over the decades? Discuss how specific details and cultural references (e.g., names of real people, bands, and venues) add authenticity to Egan's fictional creations.
8. The chapters in this book can be read as stand-alone stories. How does this affect the reader's engagement with individual characters and the events in their lives? Which characters or stories did you find the most compelling? By the end, does everything fall into place to form a satisfying storyline?
9. Read the quotation from Proust that Egan uses as an epigraph (p. ix). How do Proust's observations apply to A Visit from the Goon Squad? What impact do changing times and different contexts have on how the characters perceive and present themselves? Are the attitudes and actions of some characters more consistent than others', and if so, why?
10. In a recent interview Egan said, "I think anyone who's writing satirically about the future of America and life often looks prophetic. . . . I think we're all part of a zeitgeist and we're all listening to and absorbing the same things, consciously or unconsciously. . . ." (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February 8, 2010). Considering current social trends and political realities, including fears of war and environmental devastation, evaluate the future Egan envisions in "Pure Language" and "Great Rock and Roll Pauses."
11. What does "Pure Language" have to say about authenticity in a technological and digital age? Would you view the response to Bennie, Alex, and Lulu's marketing venture differently if the musician had been someone other than Scotty Hausmann and his slide guitar? Stop/Go (from "The Gold Cure"), for example?
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