NEW YORK – HBO is interested in turning the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "A Visit from the Goon Squad" into a television series.
The network said on Thursday that it had a development deal with the book’s author, Jennifer Egan. Such deals are first steps in making TV series, but not every project in development makes it on to TV.
Egan’s novel about the passage of time won the Pulitzer for best fiction Monday. It talks about how technology has changed the way people live and communicate. Its main characters are a punk rocker who grows up to become an influential record producer and his assistant.
HBO spokeswoman Tobe Becker says there are no timetables for when such a series might be ready for air.
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