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'Look At Me' by Jennifer Egan
I've just started and I've been searching for a book lately that I could lose myself into and reflect with at the same time - and this is it.
About the Book From an interview with the Author
What does the title Look at Me mean for you?
Several things: Most obviously, "Look at me" might as well be our cultural credo; the hunger for an audience is that deep and pervasive. At the same time, the title embodies a paradox, because the cultivation of one's outward self so often occurs at the expense of any real human connections. From this perspective, "Look at me" is a kind of plea -- a desire to be recognized in a deep and human way. Finally, most importantly, "Look at me" raises the question of who "me" really is. Are the images we construct for public consumption really ourselves? And, if not, then what is the relationship between those images and our real selves? How can they coexist? How do they interact?
About the author
Jennifer Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and St John's College, Cambridge.
She is the author of two novels, The Invisible Circus and Look at Me (just published), and a short story collection, Emerald City. She has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, Zoetrope and Ploughshares, among others, and her journalism appears frequently in the New York Times Magazine.
She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.
I've just started and I've been searching for a book lately that I could lose myself into and reflect with at the same time - and this is it.
About the Book From an interview with the Author
What does the title Look at Me mean for you?
Several things: Most obviously, "Look at me" might as well be our cultural credo; the hunger for an audience is that deep and pervasive. At the same time, the title embodies a paradox, because the cultivation of one's outward self so often occurs at the expense of any real human connections. From this perspective, "Look at me" is a kind of plea -- a desire to be recognized in a deep and human way. Finally, most importantly, "Look at me" raises the question of who "me" really is. Are the images we construct for public consumption really ourselves? And, if not, then what is the relationship between those images and our real selves? How can they coexist? How do they interact?
About the author
Jennifer Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and St John's College, Cambridge.
She is the author of two novels, The Invisible Circus and Look at Me (just published), and a short story collection, Emerald City. She has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, Zoetrope and Ploughshares, among others, and her journalism appears frequently in the New York Times Magazine.
She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.
