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The Tiger’s Wife
John Wilwol reviews Tea Obreht’s new novel, The Tiger’s Wife, which vibrates with the low rumble of unanswered and unanswerable questions that keeps us up at night.It feels weird to think that a...
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Carolyn Lang: The Last Book I Loved, You Shall Know Our Velocity!
The last book that I loved was You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers, which is about two friends, Will and Hand, who come into $32,000 around the same time one of their friends dies...
View ArticleRemember Your Favorite Teacher?
Dave Eggers writes about the teacher that inspired him to write—a relatable meditation on wanting to impress his favorite high school mentor who initially piqued his interest in the literary arts, and...
View ArticleAn Occupy Oakland and Occupy SF Roundup
By pretty much all accounts, last night was tense but hopeful for the Occupy movement in the Bay Area. (For an account of the national movement, check out Brian Spears’ roundup from this morning.)This...
View ArticleA Short Note on Critics and Criticism
David Carr and A.O. Scott have a short video up at the Times about the state of modern criticism. As the length would suggest, it’s a light discussion. The subject is really the reviewing of...
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The Rumpus interview with Dave Eggers where Dave announces his new book, A...
Dave Eggers’ new novel, A Hologram For The King, (due out from McSweeney’s June 28) is set in Saudi Arabia. There we meet Alan Clay, a middle-aged sales executive whose life has been decimated by the...
View ArticleA Hologram For The King
At The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani reviews Dave Eggers’ A Hologram for the King, calling it a “comic but deeply affecting tale about one man’s travails that also provides a bright, digital...
View ArticleDave Eggers Public Signings
Dave Eggers will be signing copies of his new book, A Hologram for the King, at two independent San Francisco bookstores this week:Tuesday, July 17th: Books Inc. (Opera Plaza)Noon to 1 pm, 601 Van...
View Article“What happens when velocity gives out”
“In the end, what makes ‘A Hologram for the King’ is the conviction with which Eggers plunges into the kind of regular working American we don’t see enough in contemporary fiction, and gives voice and...
View ArticleThe 826 Valencia Write-a-thon
The third annual 826 Valencia Write-a-thon is this coming weekend, Sunday, August 26.Grab your pens and pencils, computer, or typewriter and head down to 826 for a full day of inspired, 826-powered...
View ArticleDave Eggers Gets Google-y Eyed
Dave Eggers’s upcoming novel The Circle is about a woman whose life takes a turn for the sinister after she starts work at “the world’s most powerful internet company” with its “towering glass dining...
View ArticleTHE CIRCLE OF LIFE
I’ve spent plenty of nights endlessly refreshing my Twitter and Facebook feed while I’m reading or writing, in the hopes of not feeling so alone… It’s time to admit to myself that part of the reason I...
View ArticleNarratives of Survival
The Voice of Witness project, founded by McSweeney’s Dave Eggers, is a nonprofit that records the narratives of those who have survived harrowing experiences. The project was started after Dave came...
View ArticleThe argument for and against “Nice”
Tom Scocca, features editor at Gawker takes on the “newest weapon in the arsenal of privileged” in his recent essay. In response, Malcolm Gladwell writers over at The New Yorker that Being Nice Isn’t...
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The Rumpus Interview with Corinne Goria
Invisible Hands: Voices From the Global Economy is the latest title from Voice of Witness, a San Francisco-based nonprofit cofounded by Dave Eggers that uses oral history to highlight human rights...
View ArticleDialogue with an Astronaut
When I started the book, I hadn’t planned on it being only dialogue. I knew it would be primarily a series of interviews, or interrogations, but I figured there would be some interstitial text of some...
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“The.”“Dialogue?”“Novel!”
The dialogue novel is a unique creature. In it the conversations among characters are the primary or only means of narrative advancement—so the initial experience might be similar to reading a play or...
View ArticleWeekend Rumpus Roundup
In response to Dave Eggers’s new book, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And The Prophets, Do They Live For Ever?, Alex Kalamaroff takes us on a guided tour of the “dialogue novel,” a genre where...
View ArticleThe Lower Forty-Eight
Dave Eggers has a new story up at the New Yorker:There is proud happiness, happiness born of doing admirable things in the light of day, years of good work, and afterward being tired and content and...
View ArticleWhat’s New?
For the New York Review of Books, Tim Parks writes about why we should read new books, when there’s so many “classics…available at knockdown prices”:As a reviewer of books she would often pan, Virginia...
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