Caption:
Jennifer Egan described her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel <i>A Visit from the Goon Squad</i> as a combination of Proust and <i>The Sopranos</i>. In rereading the book, Ivan Kreilkamp takes Egan up on her comparison, showing how it blends a concern with the status of the novel today with an elegiac meditation on how we experience the passage of time.
