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Jennifer Egan Website

I created this website design for Pulitzer Prize winning author Jennifer Egan to coincide with the release of her book A Visit From The Goon Squad.

The New York Times posted a very nice review of the site…

At dinner with a friend recently, the subject of writers’ Web sites came up, and this friend mentioned Jennifer Egan’s Web site, which she said was “incredible” or “amazing” or some such superlative. As this friend is not the sort to indulge in reckless superlative tossing, I went home and, as soon as I had a spare moment, looked up Egan’s site. That “moment” turned into at least an hour.

The site isn’t your standard author-Web-site fare. Yes, there are the usual pages cataloging books, interviews, other writings, reviews. There are several examples of the “standard ‘grinning mug,’” as Egan herself describes her author photos. But these requisites are handled discreetly. The bolder elements, the first to catch the reader’s eye, are the names of places and dates…

Read the full article HERE.