[HN Gopher] Jennifer Egan's Fiction and Visions of the Future ___________________________________________________________________ Jennifer Egan's Fiction and Visions of the Future Author : mitchbob Score : 14 points Date : 2022-06-21 21:30 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.newyorker.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.newyorker.com) | chris_st wrote: | Really enjoyed her "Visit from the Goon Squad". Highly | recommended. | hairofadog wrote: | While she's certainly a highly accomplished writer of her own | accord, a weird bit of trivia is that she dated Steve Jobs for a | bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Egan | | While I'm here dropping off-topic trivia, another interesting one | is that accomplished writer Mona Simpson is Steve Jobs's sister, | though they didn't know each other until later in life: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Simpson | | Anyway, I haven't had a chance to read the article yet, but will | do this evening. Thanks for posting it! | googlryas wrote: | Even more off-topic: Mona Simpson is the name of Homer | Simpson's mother - named after the writer Mona Simpson by her | husband, Richard Appel, who was a Simpson's writer. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-06-21 23:00 UTC)