McSweeney's Sells Its Lifetime Subscribers the Brooklyn Bridge

McSweeney’s Sells Its Lifetime Subscribers the Brooklyn Bridge

Sometimes, Gawker is good for something. Apparently, Dave Eggers has sent out a notice to lifetime subscribers of McSweeney’s, begging these lifetime subscribers to switch…

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Hipster Provenance?

Hipster Provenance?

Downsyn: “Anyway, I am sure you are much cooler than I am so you will love this book so don’t pay any attention to this…

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Easy Dinero for a Good Cause

The Rake has called for Eggers to offer an explanation for his critical flip-flop on Infinite Jest and, having failed to hear back from Pynchon…

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A Heartbreaking Interview

A Heartbreaking Interview

Egghead talks with Eric Idle.

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Infinite Jest (A Decade Running)

Infinite Jest (A Decade Running)

The Howling Fantods reports that the 10th anniversary edition of Infinite Jest will include a foreword by Dave Eggers. No news about whether it will…

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And That's Just His Blurbs, Mind You

And That’s Just His Blurbs, Mind You

CBC: “Eggers’s approach to blurbing is novel; the slightly absurd tone is not. Every newly published book heaves with hyperbolic quotations — and the language…

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Wholphin, Eggers and Why I Can't Believe

Wholphin, Eggers and Why I Can’t Believe

I picked up the January 2005 issue of The Believer, partly with the intention of seeing if the magazine was showing any signs of shedding…

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The Golden Boys of Literature

The Golden Boys of Literature

The inestimable Tito Perez sends along this Sam Sacks item concerning Dave Eggers’ Best American Nonrequired Reading Series, largely because of the Vollmann shoutout. Sacks…

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Roundup

Roundup

Frances Dinkelspiel covers the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association. This week, in the City, it’s Litquake. We’ll be crawling ourselves this Saturday, in more ways…

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We've Stopped Making Fun of E____, But For Those Who Need a Laugh

We’ve Stopped Making Fun of E____, But For Those Who Need a Laugh

TMFTML: “Dispatches from Dave E_____, Misunderstood American Living During the Era of Irony

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Chuck Klosterman: A Manboy Who Must Be Stopped

Chuck Klosterman: A Manboy Who Must Be Stopped

Back when Chuck Klosterman’s Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs came out, Mark Ames penned a remarkably vicious review for the New York Press. At the…

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Personally, We've Always Thought Hunger Involved Food Stamps, Barely Getting By, Remaining Isolated, Depressed and Lonely, Hoping to Hell That the Electricity Isn't Shut Off -- The Kind of "Hunger" Knut Hamsun Wrote About.  But That's Just Us.

Personally, We’ve Always Thought Hunger Involved Food Stamps, Barely Getting By, Remaining Isolated, Depressed and Lonely, Hoping to Hell That the Electricity Isn’t Shut Off — The Kind of “Hunger” Knut Hamsun Wrote About. But That’s Just Us.

Dave Eggers interviewed at the Onion AV Club: “I would disagree about “isolated” or “lonely.” Those are two things that I don’t know very well,…

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AMR

AMR

Jonathan Stroud unveils his favorite fantasy novels. “Hot” John Sayles talks about his short story collection with the Globe. The Hag has new digs (and…

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Inside A Young Genius

Inside A Young Genius

While walking along Valencia St. a few nights ago, I came across a crumpled piece of paper on the sidewalk. I didn’t have any reading…

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The Eggers Rumor

The Eggers Rumor

Okay, folks, here’s what I know about the Eggers-Where the Wild Things Are connection. I contacted Playtone Productions, the production company that’s behind Where the…

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Quickies

Quickies

Infinity expert A.W. Moore compares David Foster Wallace’s Everything and More against two other books specializing in the subject and concludes that DFW is wrong:…

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An Open Letter to Sara Bauer

An Open Letter to Sara Bauer

Dear Young Woman Who Writes Snotty and Unfunny Open Letters for McSweeney’s: The first moment I read you, I knew you were the same. The…

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