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Dave Eggers
Free dog Johannes' job is to observe everything that happens in his urban park and report back to the park's three bison elders, but changes are afoot, including more humans…
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The superb, bestselling story of David Eggers’s extraordinary life with his brother
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McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly brings you our 77th issue, a lovely back-to-basics paperback introducing our new editor: Rita Bullwinkel. Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely…
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"From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle comes an exciting new follow-up. When the world's largest search engine/social media company, The Circle, merges with the planet's dominant e-commerce site…
The fifth short novella or long short story in Dave Eggers's The Forgetters series.
When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Run out of a California…
Cole lives alone, has no pets, and has grown accustomed to a homelife of profound quiet (not to say tedium). When Daphne and her two young children move into the…
Lionel Vratimos is a beat reporter covering the San Francisco Giants -- an enviable job if not for the soggy fries, and the so-so weather, and the Giants' losing record…
The sixth short novella or long short story in Dave Eggers's The Forgetters series.
In this long short story, or short novella, Dave Eggers gives us an unforgettable duo, Helen and Peter Mahoney, a homebody niece and her adventurous, almost-British uncle. Helen designs invitations…
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This June, triple National Magazine Award-winning McSweeney's Quarterly returns with its 71st issue, focussing on Horror.
Inside you'll find stories to delight and terrify, stories which challenge the notion of…
Winner of the Newbery Medal A New York Times bestseller
Johannes is a free dog, a fast dog - such a fast dog! He lives in an urban park by…
From New York Timesbestselling author Dave Eggers comes a deadpan take on creativity and persistence, as told through the eyes of a humpback whale looking for a new song
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Three-time National Magazine Award-winning McSweeney's Quarterly returns with its 70th edition, a paperback with a special die-cut cover design with French flaps.
Inside you'll find brilliant fiction - and two…
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The interviews contained in Conversations with Dave Eggers suggest the range of Eggers’s pursuits - a range that is reflected in the variety of the interviews themselves. To read the…
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Prior scholarship has identified Dave Eggers’ work as postmodern, focusing on the preface to A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (A.H.W.O.S.G.). Because this prefacing indicates Eggers’ status as the subjected…
McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly returns with our 73rd issue, a guest-edited, year-end themed issue, more details coming soon. Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned…
McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly starts 2024 in style with a thrilling back-to-basics paperback. Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned (there have been hardcovers and…
McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly celebrates making it three quarters of the way to a hundred by looking forward. Guest-edited by Eli Horowitz, McSweeney's 75 is made up entirely…
Une precedente bourse a permis d'identifier le travail de Dave Eggers comme etant postmoderne, en se concentrant sur la preface de A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (A.H.W.O.S.G.). Comme cette…
Wczesniejsze badania okreslily tworczosc Dave'a Eggersa jako postmodernistyczna, skupiajac sie na przedmowie do A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (A.H.W.O.S.G.). Poniewaz ta przedmowa wskazuje na status Eggersa jako autora poddanego…
John Cheever
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVE EGGERS Once upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves.
Precedenti studiosi hanno identificato l'opera di Dave Eggers come postmoderna, concentrandosi sulla prefazione di A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (A.H.W.O.S.G.). Poiche questa prefazione indica lo status di Eggers come…
Author Dave Eggers and artist Julia Sarda spin a quirky historical event into a whimsical and tall-ish true tale of ingenuity.
It all started when John "Minnie" Moore built a…
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Die bisherige Forschung hat das Werk von Dave Eggers als postmodern identifiziert und sich dabei auf das Vorwort zu A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (A.H.W.O.S.G.) konzentriert. Da dieses Vorwort…
Will and Hand are burdened by $38,000 and the memory of their friend Jack. Taking a week out of their lives, they decide to travel around the world to give…
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A collection of short stories that twist and inspire the imagination.
After a decade of civil war, an unnamed country is at peace. To join the state’s divided halves, the government orders the construction of a new highway. Two men are…
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Each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned. There have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an issue with two spines, an issue with a magnetic binding, an issue that looked like…
Issue 33 of McSweeney’s Quarterly will be a one-time-only, Sunday-edition sized newspaper the San Francisco Panorama. It’ll have news (actual news, tied to the day it comes out) and sports…
Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf. In any other age he would have just been considered a boy…
Even beyond Edmund White’s youthful hustler, Joyce Carol Oates’s fatherly killer, and Roddy Doyle’s Rwandan refugee, Issue 18 will not stay at home. Bears, clouds, assassinations, and demons lurk in…
Joshuah Bearman leads a daring investigation into the enigmatic Great Gerbil of central Asia, uncovering signs of an impending disaster. The issue also includes strange and wonderful stories from T.C…
In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United…
In August 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in the city of New Orleans has been abandoned by most citizens. But resident Abdulrahman Zeitoun, though his wife and family had gone…
[A] story of two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country that questions…
Based closely on true experiences of the Lost Boys of Sudan, who fled their war-ravaged country to the United States in the mid-1980s, this novel of one refugees story of…
A mother and her two young children rent a battered old RV (optimistically christened the ‘Chateau’) and embark upon a journey through the Alaskan wilderness.
Originally published: San Francisco: McSweeney’s Books, 2009.
Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company. The story of one woman’s ambition and idealism becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising…
A selection of the best writing, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and blogs, published during 2011. Edited by Dave Eggers.
El dia que Mae Holland es contratada para trabajar en el Circulo, la empresa de internet mas influyente del mundo, sabe que se le ha concedido la oportunidad de su…
With the help of a cadre of Bay Area writing students, Eggers has again assembled an eclectic collection of fiction, nonfiction, humor, journalism, and alternative comics.
In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Dave Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the…
Drawn Together meets WILD in this journey into the jungle and through the imagination.
