Subscriber: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | sewer | How to Listen Jennifer Egan’s new novel, “Candy House” It is the sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning “A Visit From the Goon Squad.” There are few characters in both books, but the novels also combine with Egan’s structured approach – a creative approach, including one in “Goon …
Another is introduced as a foreign teenager visiting a suburban country club; The next episode finds him using his adolescent abilities to infiltrate the lives of strangers on a true spy mission in 2032, arming his body with subcutaneous electronics that turn him into a kind of human smartphone. The second chapter is written entirely …
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“Goon Squad” used a number of narrative tricks. For example, one episode was presented in the form of a PowerPoint presentation. In this novel, a chapter is a series of textual exchanges. Lulu’s secret agent adventure – I’m totally riveted – is a series of short, concise directives told as if they were coming from …
In These serials For T, writer Reggie Nadelson revisits New York institutions that have defined cool for decades, from vintage restaurants to eponymous dives. It is sometimes said to be the oldest store of its kind in New York City. Economy Candy On Rivington Street. Dating back to 1937, this company not only sells a …
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One of Maddy Park’s earliest street food memories was when vendors set up a portable stove outside her elementary school in Seoul, South Korea to sell candy for a dime. It was part sweet, part play. Ms. Park remembered that the candy makers used to melt the sugar and lather it with a pinch of …
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Across the UK, a slowly burning issue has sparked a supply chain crisis in recent weeks as restaurants, supermarkets and food manufacturers have warned customers that some popular products will be temporarily unavailable due to trucker shortages. McDonald’s milkshakes Nando’s chicken, Haribo sweets and supermarket milk are among the products that have become scarce in …
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Before Brexit, British trucking companies could quickly and easily recruit drivers from continental Europe.Credit…Ben Stansall/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Across the UK, a slowly burning issue has sparked a supply chain crisis in recent weeks as restaurants, supermarkets and food manufacturers have warned customers that some popular products will be temporarily unavailable due to trucker …
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Across the UK, a slowly burning issue has sparked a supply chain crisis in recent weeks as restaurants, supermarkets and food manufacturers have warned customers that some popular products will be temporarily unavailable due to trucker shortages. McDonald’s milkshakes Nando’s chicken, Haribo sweets and supermarket milk are among the products that have become scarce in …
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