Cordula asked Jennifer Egan:

I read Look at Me in 2010 and it seemed like your 2002 self grasped into the future. I loved this book so much. I’ve loved all your books, but that first one really stayed with me. Is it just me or did it seem so prescient looking back on it now? Your writing is just so good!

Jennifer Egan Thank you so much, Cordula!!! LOOK AT ME is my "favorite child," so this praise is especially meaningful. I think there was a certain prescience in that book, though in a way it's not surprising--I'm responding imaginatively to the same forces that end up shaping real-world events, be they technological or political, so there sometimes ends up being a kind of parity between what I imagine and what actually happens. I wrote LAM in the late nineties; in fact I had never been online at all when I began it. It came out in 2001, the same week as 9/11. So...some eerie symmetries, but in retrospect those are hard even to detect, as it all ends up feeling like one moment. Bottom line: I'm so grateful for your readership!! Sending good wishes, Jenny

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