Author's Desktop: Mike Heppner


		On his author's desktop, Mike Heppner has provided some fragments from the text of the early version of THE EGG CODE, ones that didn't necessarily make it into the final version of the book, along with a conversation via email that he had with the book's interior designer, Knopf's own Virginia Tan. You can thus here both get a taste of the content of the book and some of its characters along with getting a sense of the physical object that contains the story -- its design and creation, what fonts and why, and how that design may affect a reader's experience of the novel itself. Read the dialogue between Mike Heppner and Virginia Tan. As for the the excerpts from the early EGG CODE itself, you can read... Two school papers written by the character Lydia Tree in the spring of 1979 -- one for a class called "The World of Chemistry," the other for "Intro to Poly sci." A chapter entitled "The Early Days of the Internet: 1967 -- Bolt Beranek and Newman Get On Board." Four polemical tracts from the fictional website www.eggcode.com. Photo (c) Frank Heppner