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Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers

Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
Jan 07, 2010
News:
Assassination Vacation has won an award
Jun 24, 2009
Audio Excerpt:
Assassination Vacation
Mar 19, 2009
Assassination Vacation will be released on March 29, 2005 in
Mar 29, 2005
Assassination Vacation is now available in
Mar 29, 2005
News:
Assassination Vacation has won an award
Prior to Dec 19, 2008
Excerpt:
Prologue from Assassination Vacation
Prior to Dec 19, 2008

Authors on the Web

Cherwell Newspaper, May 17, 2012
...subsequent purchase - to his right was a display of David Foster Wallace, framed by Jonathan Franzen and Dave Eggers. And there, in the middle of it all, was Nick – all parcelled up and ready to be found. And so he approached her – he was a writer...
Columbus Dispatch, May 16, 2012
...when the perpetrators worked so hard to distort reality at every turn.” Never Fall Down is similar to Dave Eggers’ fictionalized memoir of Sudanese child soldier Valentino Achak Deng in What Is the What but differs from McCormick’s 2008 National...
Star Ledger, May 16, 2012
...Gilbert reissued the book this month through McSweeney’s, the small independent San Francisco publishing house established by Dave Eggers, who wrote "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius." Proceeds from sales of the cookbook go to ScholarMatch, a...
Lakeland Ledger, May 15, 2012
...children, and inspire a movie directed by Spike Jonze and a full-length novel, "The Wild Things," by Dave Eggers, both released in 2009 (not to mention spawning several generations of boys named Max). In a 2011 profile in Vanity Fair, Eggers, also the...
Cary News, May 13, 2012
...10 a.m. Friday, May 11, at the Eva Perry Regional Library in Apex. The book, “Zeitoun” by Dave Eggers will be discussed. To sign up, call 919-387-2100. XYZ Club The XYZ Club meets at 10 a.m. the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at the Cary...
Guardian.co.uk, May 12, 2012
...already knew my thinkings" – and the footnotes in "Elephants in Captivity (Part One)" are reminiscent of Dave Eggers . Which is not to say this book won't delight and unsettle, but Parameswaran can sound a bit too much like his peers. Short stories...
Chicago Tribune, May 10, 2012
...the perpetrators worked so hard to distort reality at every turn." "Never Fall Down" is similar to Dave Eggers' fictionalized memoir of Sudanese child soldier Valentino Achak Deng in "What Is the What," but it differs from McCormick's 2008 National Book...
NewsOK.com, March 3, 2012
...watchable minutes of film out of a 45-page children's story. In some cases, like Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers' adaptation of Maurice Sendak's “Where the Wild Things Are,” delving deep into the subtext results in a rewardingly deep exploration, but in...
Globe and Mail, March 2, 2012
...you cant tell a book by its cover, you should read what such heavy-hitting literati as Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Ta Obreht, Richard Russo and the three Jonathans Franzen, Lethem and Safran Foer wrote on the back cover of Nathan Englanders latest, slim...
Globe and Mail, March 2, 2012
...you cant tell a book by its cover, you should read what such heavy-hitting literati as Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Ta Obreht, Richard Russo and the three Jonathans Franzen, Lethem and Safran Foer wrote on the back cover of Nathan Englanders latest, slim...
New York Times, March 2, 2012
...genre is tacking back toward the sociological and political, including Voice of Witness, a publishing imprint run by Dave Eggers that highlights human rights issues through oral histories, Donald J. Raleigh’s “Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of...
New York Times, March 2, 2012
...genre is tacking back toward the sociological and political, including Voice of Witness, a publishing imprint run by Dave Eggers that highlights human rights issues through oral histories, Donald J. Raleigh’s “Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of...
Hollywood Stock Exchange, March 2, 2012
...town and experiences life changing events. Gus Van Sant directs from a script Damon and Krasinski co-wrote with Dave Eggers...
Guardian.co.uk, March 2, 2012
...and images detourned from ads and comics from the heyday of American consumerism. And what is Zeitoun by Dave Eggers – a true story about the impact of Hurricane Katrina retold from interviews with one man who lived through it? Is it fiction or...