Dave Eggers

• Dave Eggers.

After the amazing success of his memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000), a bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist that landed him a ...

• The Progressive
• Vol. 71 Nbr. 11, November 2007

• Gen X Literary Phenom Dave Eggers Discusses His Latest Bestseller, Zeitoun

In addition to running his McSweeney's publishing house, penning bestsellers, and overseeing philanthropic projects, he's a graphic designer and has written two screenplays: "Away We Go," released in June, and "Where the Wild Things Are," to be released in October. While teaching journalism at the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Eggers co-founded "Voice of Witness," a series of books using oral testimonies about human rights crises around the world. MAK Hosts Egyptian UFI Fellows The MAK Center for Art and Architecture selected Salwa Rashad and Alaa Khaled, who publish an annual journal, Amkenah (Places), in Alexandria, Egypt, as Urban Future Initiative (UFI) fellows to explore the relationship between Los Angeles and its Arab immigrant communities.

• Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, The
• Vol. 28 Nbr. 8, November 2009

• Dave Eggers

It'd be easy to get distracted by a bout of worship. After all, he founded McSweeney's; he wrote generation-definers A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius and You Shall Know Our Velocity, and, oh yeah, he runs a pirate supply shop as a front for a nonprofit youth writing center. So the woozy stargazing is inevitable, but kind of not the point.

• Philadelphia Weekly
• August 22, 2009

• Answers the Seductive Call of Content On a Glowing Screen

Dave Eggers sighs. Sitting on a tiny stage in front of a group of newspaper editors, the celebrated writer runs his hand through his unruly hair and bemoans society's headlong rush to all things digital. Why does everything have to be on a screen?

• Buffalo News
• June 28, 2011

• Fraught for Teacher; a New Dave Eggers Book Explores Our Troubled Public Education System.

I had a really close friend who taught for many years in San Francisco. She was teaching middle school, and she was the most inspired and happiest and most driven of all our friends. She did that for five years or so, and then she went into educational software instead. She struggled a lot while teaching--getting into your late 20s it becomes unfair that you're a grown person with a master's degree and in charge of 120 kids, and you live in a very small apartment with a roommate because you're not paid well enough. That she had to quit was one of the original impetuses. Teacher salaries became an interest of mine because I felt like nobody knew all the facts. Very few people know exactly how teachers' lives are day to day. When 826 Valencia began, that was one of the first things we ta...

• Philadelphia Weekly
• August 05, 2009

• Signings, Etc. - Dave Eggers

A sold-out presentation by best- selling author Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng takes place tonight in Portland. Eggers' latest book, "What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng," tells the story of a boy who escapes Sudan and arrives - through an amazing journey - in the United States. Their appearance in Portland is a benefit for the Telling Room, a nonprofit writing program for youth ages 8 to 18. A book signing follows their talk. The program will be broadcast on WMPG 90.9 and at www.wmpg.org. WHEN: 7:30 p.m.

• Portland Press Herald
• February 25, 2007

• ; the Literary Peace Prize Is the Only Peace Prize Awarded in the U.S.

DAYTON -- Chang-Rae Lee's novel "The Surrendered" and Wilbert Rideau's memoir "In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance" have been named the fiction and nonfiction recipients of the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Winners will be honored at 5 p.m. Nov. 13 at the Schuster Center in Dayton during ceremonies hosted by journalist Nick Clooney. Presenters will be 2010 recipients Dave Eggers and Marlon James.

• Dayton Daily News
• September 30, 2011

• Moore's Coming-of-Age Tale Offers Humor -- And Heartbreak

Dave Eggers considers Lorrie Moore to be among "the very funniest writers alive. Jonathan Lethem calls her "Lily Tomlin-funny."

• Buffalo News
• September 10, 2010

• Registration Deadline Set for 3 Shalom Activities

Shalom Retreat Center, 1001 Davis St., is hosting three upcoming events that have Monday, Oct. 24, deadlines for registration. * A "Reading That Matters" book discussion, 7-8:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 24. Discussion will center around the book "What Is the What?" by author Dave Eggers.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• October 18, 2011

• Dave Eggers: The Studs Factor

In a lengthy recent interview with Mother Jones, the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and What Is the What spoke about one of his latest projects, a collection of oral histories.

• Mother Jones
• Vol. 34 Nbr. 2, March 2009