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=== 2000s ===
=== 2000s ===
* 2005 Named one of ''Time'' magazine's [[Time 100|100 Most Influential People]]
* 2005 Named one of ''Time'' magazine's [[Time 100|100 Most Influential People]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=The 2005 TIME 100 - TIME |url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1972656,00.html |access-date=2024-09-02 |website=TIME.com |language=en-us}}</ref>
* 2005 [[Doctor of Letters|Honorary Doctor of Letters]] from [[Brown University]]. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://today.brown.edu/articles/2008/05/eggers|title=Dave Eggers to deliver Brown University commencement address|date=May 19, 2008|access-date=December 4, 2009}}</ref>
* 2005 [[Doctor of Letters|Honorary Doctor of Letters]] from [[Brown University]]. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://today.brown.edu/articles/2008/05/eggers|title=Dave Eggers to deliver Brown University commencement address|date=May 19, 2008|access-date=December 4, 2009}}</ref>
* 2007 The 13th Annual [[Heinz Award]] (Arts and Humanities)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gelder |first=Lawrence Van |title=ARTS, BRIEFLY; 'Genius' Author Wins Heinz Award |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9C07E2D6123DF931A2575AC0A9619C8B63.html |access-date=2024-09-02 |website=query.nytimes.com |language=en}}</ref>
* 2007 The 13th Annual [[Heinz Award]] (Arts and Humanities)
* 2008 [[TED Prize]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-11-21 |title=Announcing 2008 TED Prize winners {{!}} TED Blog |url=https://blog.ted.com/announcing_2008/ |access-date=2024-09-02 |language=en-US}}</ref>
* 2008 [[TED Prize]]
* 2009 [[Literarian Award]] of the [[National Book Award]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-10-14 |title=2009 National Book Awards Finalists Announced|url=https://www.bookweb.org/news/2009-national-book-awards-finalists-announced |access-date=2024-09-02 |website=the American Booksellers Association}}</ref>
* 2009 [[Literarian Award]] of the [[National Book Award]]
* 2009 ''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize (Innovator's Award)
* 2009 ''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize (Innovator's Award)<ref>2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners announced - Los Angeles Times. (2010, June 11). ''Los Angeles Times''. <nowiki>https://www.latimes.com/la-mediagroup-2010-0423-htmlstory.html</nowiki></ref>


=== 2010s ===
=== 2010s ===
* 2012 [[Commonwealth Club of California|Commonwealth Club]] Inforum's 21st Century Award
* 2012 [[Commonwealth Club of California|Commonwealth Club]] Inforum's 21st Century Award<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dave Eggers: INFORUM's 21st Century Award |url=https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2012-03-22/dave-eggers-inforums-21st-century-award |access-date=2024-09-02 |website=www.commonwealthclub.org |language=en}}</ref>
* 2012 [[PEN International|PEN Center]] USA Award of Honor 2012
* 2012 [[PEN International|PEN Center]]USA Award of Honor{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}
* 2013 Eggers was the 2013 recipient of [[Smithsonian (magazine)|''Smithsonian'' magazine]]'s American Ingenuity Award in the Social Progress category
* 2013 Eggers was the 2013 recipient of [[Smithsonian (magazine)|''Smithsonian'' magazine]]'s American Ingenuity Award in the Social Progress category{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}
* 2015 Inducted into the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]]
* 2015 Inducted into the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]]{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}


==Works==
==Works==

Revision as of 15:57, 2 September 2024

For the film score composer, see Dave Eggar.

Dave Eggers
Eggers in 2018
Eggers in 2018
Born (1970-03-12) March 12, 1970 (age 54)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation
  • Writer
  • editor
  • publisher
  • philanthropist
EducationUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Period1993–present
Literary movementPostmodern literature, post-postmodern, new sincerity
SpouseVendela Vida
Children2
RelativesWilliam D. Eggers (brother)
Constance Demby (aunt)
Website
www.mcsweeneys.net
www.daveeggers.net

Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He wrote the 2000 best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Eggers is also the founder of Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, a literary journal; a co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia, co-founder of The Hawkins Project, and the human rights nonprofit Voice of Witness; and the founder of ScholarMatch, a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition. His writing has appeared in several magazines, including The New Yorker, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine.

Early life and education

Eggers was born in Boston, Massachusetts, one of four siblings. His father, John K. Eggers (1936–1991), was an attorney, while his mother, Heidi McSweeney Eggers (1940–1992), was a schoolteacher. His father was Protestant, and his mother was Catholic. As a child, the family moved to Lake Forest, Illinois, where he attended public high school and was a classmate of actor Vince Vaughn. Eggers's elder brother William D. Eggers is a researcher who has worked for several conservative think tanks, doing research promoting privatization.[1] Eggers's sister Beth died by suicide in November 2001.[2] Eggers briefly spoke about his sister's death during a 2002 fan interview for McSweeney's.[3]

Eggers attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, intending to obtain a degree in journalism.[4] However, his studies were interrupted by the deaths of both of his parents: his father in 1991 from brain and lung cancer, and his mother in January 1992 from stomach cancer.[5] These events were chronicled in his first book, the fictionalized A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. At the time, Eggers was age 21, and his youngest sibling, Christopher ("Toph"), was 8 years old. The two elder siblings, William and Beth, could not commit to caring for Toph; his eldest sibling, William, had a full-time job, and his next-eldest sibling, Beth, was enrolled in law school. As a result, Eggers took responsibility. He left the University of Illinois and moved to Berkeley, California, with his girlfriend Kirsten and brother. They initially moved in with Eggers' sibling, Beth, and her roommate but eventually found a place in another part of town, which they paid for with money left to them by their parents. Toph attended a small private school, and Eggers did temp work and freelance graphic design for a local newspaper.

Eventually, Eggers took over a local free newspaper called Cups with his friend David Moodie. This gradually evolved into the satirical magazine Might.[6]

Career

Eggers worked with Sudan refugee Valentino Achak Deng to tell a fictionalized account of Achak's life story.
Eggers in October 2008

Eggers began writing as a Salon.com editor and founded Might magazine in San Francisco in 1994 with David Moodie and Marny Requa, while also writing a comic strip called Smarter Feller (originally Swell) for SF Weekly.[7]

Might evolved out of the small San Francisco-based independent paper Cups, and gathered a loyal following with its irreverent humor and quirky approach to the issues and personalities of the day.[6] An article purporting to be an obituary of former 1980s child star Adam Rich (originally intended to be Back to the Future star Crispin Glover until Glover backed out) garnered some national attention.[8] The magazine regularly included humour pieces, and several essays and non-fiction pieces by seminal writers of the 1990s, including "Impediments to Passion", an essay on sex in the AIDS era by David Foster Wallace.

Eggers later recounted in his memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius that the magazine consistently struggled to make a profit and stopped publication in 1997. An anthology of the best of Might magazine's brief run, 'Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp' and Other Essays from Might Magazine, was published in late 1998. By this time, Eggers was freelancing for Esquire and continuing to work for Salon.[citation needed]

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, published in 2000, Eggers' first book, is a memoir with fictional elements, and it focuses on his struggle to raise his younger brother in the San Francisco Bay Area following the deaths of both of their parents. The book quickly became a bestseller and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The memoir was praised for its originality, idiosyncratic self-referencing, and several innovative stylistic elements.[9] Early printings of the 2001 trade-paperback edition were published with a lengthy postscript entitled, Mistakes We Knew We Were Making.[citation needed]

In 2002, Eggers published his first novel, You Shall Know Our Velocity, a story about a frustrating attempt to give away money to deserving people while haphazardly traveling the globe. An expanded and revised version was released as Sacrament in 2003. A version without the new material in Sacrament was created and retitled You Shall Know Our Velocity! for a Vintage imprint distribution. He has since published How We Are Hungry, a collection of short stories, and three politically themed serials for Salon.[10]

In November 2005, Eggers published Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated, a book of interviews with former prisoners sentenced to death and later exonerated. The book was compiled with Lola Vollen, a specialist in the aftermath of major human rights abuses and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley's Institute of International Studies.[11]

Eggers' 2006 novel What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.[12] Eggers also edits the Best American Nonrequired Reading series, an annual anthology of short stories, essays, journalism, satire, and alternative comics.[13]

Eggers was one of the original contributors to ESPN The Magazine and helped create its section "The Jump". He also acted as the first anonymous "Answer Guy", a column that continued to run after he stopped working for the publication.[14]

On November 7, 2009, he was presented with the "Courage in Media" Award by the Council on American-Islamic Relations for his book Zeitoun.[15] Zeitoun was optioned by Jonathan Demme, who considered an animated film-rendition of the work. To Demme, it "felt like the first in-depth immersion I'd ever had through literature or film into the Muslim-American family. ... The moral was that they are like people of any other faith, and I hope our film, if we can get it made, will also be like that." Demme, quoted in early 2011, expressed confidence that when the script was finished, he would be able to find financing, perhaps even from a major studio.[16] However, in May 2014, The Playlist reported that the film was "percolat[ing] in development".[17] Demme died in April 2017, and the project has not been heard of since.

In the early 2010s, after six years without publishing substantive literary fiction following What is the What, Eggers began a three-year streak of back-to-back novels, each broadly concerned with pressing social and political issues facing the United States and the world in the twenty-first century. Eggers published his novel of the Great Recession and the 2007–2008 financial crisis, A Hologram for the King, in July 2012. In October of that year, the novel was announced as a finalist for the National Book Award.[18]

Eggers followed this with The Circle, released in October 2013, and depicts the life of a young worker at a fictional San Francisco-based technology company shortly, as she faces doubts about her vocation due to the company's seemingly well-intentioned innovations revealing a more sinister underlying agenda. Completing the productive spell, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? was published in June 2014.[19] In November 2015, Your Fathers, Where Are They ... was longlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award,[20] Eggers' fifth nomination for the award following earlier nominations for The Circle, A Hologram for the King, The Wild Things, and What is the What.

In April 2016, Eggers visited Israel, as part of a project by the "Breaking the Silence" organization, to write an article for a book on the Israeli occupation, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War.[21][22] The book was edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman and published under the title "Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation" in June 2017.[23]

In July 2016, Eggers published Heroes of the Frontier.[24] Earlier the same year, a film adaptation of Eggers' earlier novel A Hologram for the King was released to mixed reviews and middling commercial performance. The Circle, a film version of Eggers' book, starring Emma Watson, John Boyega, and Tom Hanks (who had starred in the Hologram for the King adaptation), was released in April 2017.[25] Eggers followed Heroes of the Frontier with The Monk of Mokha (2018), another nonfiction biography in a similar vein to Zeitoun, billed by the publishers as "the exhilarating true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war."[26]

Eggers ended the decade by publishing two stylistically different novellas that were written concurrently. The Parade, published by Knopf in March 2019, was a spare, minimalist novella reflecting Eggers' long-standing concerns with humanitarian issues, global development, and Western perceptions of the developing world. According to the advance blurb from the publisher, the novel concerns "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."[27] Reviews were mixed: Positive notices included Andrew Motion's writing in The Guardian that "[Eggers'] novel may be sternly reduced in terms of its cast and language, but this leanness doesn't diminish the strength of its argument",[28] and Ron Charles in The Washington Post wrote that The Parade is "a story that conforms to the West's reductive attitudes about the developing world. Writers and politicians have long generalized about those individual cultures. A novel that lumps them together into a nameless, primitive nation only plays into that tendency."[29] The Parade was followed in November 2019 by another short novella, The Captain and the Glory, billed by Eggers himself as an "allegorical satire"[30] of the Trump administration.[31] In an interview with the publishers Knopf published on the McSweeney's website, Eggers described the novel as "an attempt to understand this era by painting it in the gaudy and garish colors it really deserves... This is part farce, part parable, and I do hope, though the Captain bears more than a passing resemblance to Trump, that the book will be readable when Trump is gone. That's part of the reason I called it 'An entertainment' on the title page. It's a nod to Graham Greene but also the way I hope people will read it. It was cathartic to write, and I hope cathartic to read."[31] As with The Parade, reviews were decidedly mixed, with much criticism noting that Eggers' satire struggled to keep up with or do justice to the events of the Trump era. In a review for the Financial Times, Carl Wilkinson expressed bemusement about the purpose of the book and its intentions,[32] Hannah Barekat in The Spectator was critical of the "heavy handed" nature of the book's satire,[33] and The Guardian,[34] The Times Literary Supplement,[35] and Kirkus Reviews[36] also found the book wanting.

In 2021, his novella The Museum of Rain was published,[37] and according to the McSweeney's website, the "elegiac" short story concerns "an American Army vet in his 70s who is asked to lead a group of young grand-nieces and grand-nephews on a walk through the hills of California's Central Coast. Walking toward a setting sun, their destination is The Museum of Rain, which may or may not still exist, and whose origin and meaning are elusive to all."[38] The novel The Every was released in October 2021. The novel is a follow-up to his 2013 novel The Circle.[39]

McSweeney's

Eggers founded McSweeney's, an independent publishing house named for his mother's maiden name. The publishing house produces a quarterly literary journal, Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, first published in 1998; the monthly journal The Believer, which debuted in 2003 and is edited by Eggers's wife Vendela Vida; and from 2005 to 2012, the quarterly DVD magazine Wholphin.[40] Other works include The Future Dictionary of America, Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans, and "Dr. and Mr. Haggis-On-Whey", the last being a series of children's books of literary nonsense, which Eggers writes with his younger brother Toph Eggers under a pseudonym. [citation needed]

Ahead of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Eggers wrote an essay about the U.S. national team and soccer in the United States for The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup, which contained essays about each competing team in the tournament and was published with aid from the journal Granta. According to The San Francisco Chronicle,[41] Eggers was rumored to be a possible candidate to be the new editor of The Paris Review before the Review selected Lorin Stein.

Visual art work

While at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Eggers attended art classes. After the publication of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, he focused mainly on writing. Still, he publicly returned to visual art in 2010, with a solo gallery show at Electric Works in San Francisco, called "It Is Right to Draw Their Fur".[42] The show featured many drawings of animals often paired with phrases, sometimes out of the Bible.[43] In conjunction with that exhibition, McSweeney's published a catalog featuring 25 loose-leaf prints of the work featured in the show. In 2015, Eggers had his first solo museum exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art called "The Insufferable Throne of God".[43] Eggers is represented by Electric Works, a fine art gallery in San Francisco.

Outside of exhibitions, Eggers' visual art contributions include the following:

  • Provided album art for Austin rock group Paul Banks & the Carousels' album Yelling at the Sun.
  • Designed the artwork for Thrice's album Vheissu.[44]

826 National

In 2002, Eggers and educator Nínive Clements Calegari co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for kids ages 6–18 in San Francisco.[45] It since developed into 826 National, and has six chapters across the United States: Los Angeles; New York City; Chicago; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Washington, D.C.; and Boston.[46]

In 2006, he appeared at fund-raising events, dubbed the Revenge of the Book–Eaters tour, to support these programs. The Chicago show, at the Park West theatre, featured Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard. Other performers on the tour included Sufjan Stevens, Jon Stewart, Davy Rothbart, and David Byrne.[47] In September 2007, the Heinz Family Foundation awarded Eggers a $250,000 Heinz Award (given to recognize "extraordinary achievements by individuals") in the Arts and Humanities.[48] In accordance with Eggers's wishes, the award money was given to 826 National and The Teacher Salary Project.[49]

In April 2010, under the umbrella of 826 National, Eggers launched ScholarMatch, a nonprofit organization that connects donors with students to make college more affordable.[50][51]

Controversy and activism

Eggers's book The Every was released in 2021, but he refused to sell the hardcover edition on Amazon, limiting the release to independent bookstores only. Since its release, paperback editions of The Every have been available on Amazon.[52]

In 2022, Eggers's books were one of several titles banned in South Dakota schools because of sexual content.[53] Eggers went to South Dakota to speak to authorities and students and offered any students who wanted one of the banned books copies for free via his website.[54]

In December 2022, Eggers travelled on behalf of PEN America to Kyiv, Ukraine.[55] He published "The Profound Defiance of Daily Life in Kyiv" in The New Yorker based on his time in the war-torn country.[56]

Musical contributions

  • Eggers can be heard talking with Spike Jonze during "The Horrible Fanfare/Landslide/Exoskeleton", the final track on Beck's 2006 album The Information. The third section of the track features Eggers and Jonze responding to Beck's question, "What would the ultimate record that ever could possibly be made sound like?"[57]
  • Eggers contributed lyrics to the song "The Ghost of Rita Gonzolo" on One Ring Zero's album As Smart as We Are (2004).[58]

Personal life

Eggers was the primary guardian of his youngest brother, Toph Eggers. The two later co-authored children's books together.[59] Eggers lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and he is married to Vendela Vida, also a writer.[60][61] The couple have two children.[62] Vida and Eggers met in 1998 in San Francisco at a wedding; the couple started dating in 1999.[63]

He was one of three 2008 TED Prize recipients.[64] His TED Prize wish was for helping community members to engage with local public schools personally.[65][66] The same year, he was named one of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World" by Utne Reader.[67]

Honors

2000s

2010s

Works

Novels
Title Year Awards
You Shall Know Our Velocity 2002 Independent Book Award, Story Teller of the Year (2003)[75]
Sacrament 2003
The Unforbidden is Compulsory or Optimism (A Novella) 2004
What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng 2006 Salon Book Award (2006)[76]

National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction) finalist (2007) International Dublin Literary Award longlist (2008) Prix Médicis award (2009)

The Wild Things 2009 International Dublin Literary Award longlist (2011)[43]
A Hologram for the King 2012 National Book Award (Fiction) finalist (2012)[77]

Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2012 list[78] Hollywood.com Best Books of 2012 list The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012 List (Fiction & Poetry)[79] The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2012 list, Fiction[80] California Book Award (Fiction) finalist (2013) [81] International Dublin Literary Award longlist (2014)[82]

The Circle 2013 International Dublin Literary Award, longlist (2015)[83]
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? 2014 International Dublin Literary Award shortlist (2016) [84]
Heroes of the Frontier 2016
The Parade 2019
The Captain and the Glory 2019
The Every 2021
Short Stories
Title Year
Jokes Told in Heaven About Babies, as Lucy Thomas collection 2003
How We Are Hungry (A collection of 15 short stories) 2004
Short Short Stories, part of the Pocket Penguins series (A collection of 24 short stories) 2005
How the Water Feels to the Fishes, part of One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box (a collection of 31 short stories) 2007
Standalone short story/novella portions of a potential novel
Title Year Series Ref
The Museum of Rain 2021 The Forgetters [85]
The Honor of Your Presence 2023 The Forgetters
The Keeper of the Ornaments 2024 The Forgetters
The Comebacker 2024 The Forgetters
Where the Candles Are Kept 2024 The Forgetters
The Lighted Boat Parade 2024 The Forgetters
The Man At The River 2013
We Like You So Much and Want to Know You Better 2013
The Alaska of Giants and Gods 2014
Understanding the Sky 2015
Children's books
Title Year Awards Notes Ref
Giraffes? Giraffes! 2003 The Haggis-on-Whey World of Unbelievable Brilliance Series
Your Disgusting Head 2004 The Haggis-on-Whey World of Unbelievable Brilliance Series
Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid 2006 The Haggis-on-Whey World of Unbelievable Brilliance Series
Cold Fusion 2008 The Haggis-on-Whey World of Unbelievable Brilliance Series
Children and the Tundra 2010 The Haggis-on-Whey World of Unbelievable Brilliance Series
When Marlana Pulled a Thread 2011
The Bridge Will Not Be Gray 2015 Illustrations by Tucker Nichols,
Her Right Foot 2017 Illustrations by Shawn Harris
The Lifters 2018
What Can a Citizen Do? 2018 Illustrations by Shawn Harris
Abner & Ian Get Right-Side Up 2019 Illustrations by Laura Park
Most of the Better Natural Things in the World 2019 Illustrations by Angel Chang
Tomorrow Most Likely 2019 Illustrations by Lane Smith
Faraway Things 2021 Illustrations by Kelly Murphy [86]
We Became Jaguars 2021 Illustrations by Woodrow White
The Eyes and the Impossible 2023 Newbery Medal (2024)[87] Illustrations by Shawn Harris
Moving the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion 2023 Illustrations by Júlia Sardà
Soren's Seventh Song 2024 Illustrations by Mark Hoffmann
Non-fiction
Title Year Awards Notes
Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers 2005 with Daniel Moulthrop and Nínive Clements Calegari, sociology
Zeitoun 2009 Albatros Literaturpreis (2012) co-won with German translators Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann.[88][89] A biography
It Is Right to Draw Their Fur: Animal Renderings 2010 Drawings
Visitants 2013
The Voice of Witness reader : ten years of amplifying unheard voices 2015
Ungrateful Mammals 2017 Drawings
The Monk of Mokha 2018 A biography
Phoenix 2019 Politics
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 2000 Time Best Book of the Year ( 2000)[90]

Washington Post Best Book of the Year (2000)

San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year (2000)

Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year (2000)

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice (2000) [91]

Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction finalist (2001)

American Academy of Arts and Letters's Addison Metcalf Award (2021)[92]

Mistakes we knew we were making 2000
Works edited and prefaced
Title Year Notes
Drama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man 2002 Eggers wrote the foreword
Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated 2005 Co-compiled with Lola Vollen; with an introduction by Scott Turow
Stories Upon Stories 2016 Anthology of short stories, editor and contributor
Some Recollections from a Busy Life: The Forgotten Story of the Real Town of Hollister, California 2016 Written by T.S. Hawkins. Eggers provides the introduction to a reprint of an autobiography by his great great-great-grandfather initially published in 1913

Other

"The Actual Hollister: A California Town and Its Name". Personal History. The New Yorker. 91 (20): 30–37. July 20, 2015.

Filmography

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Further reading

Criticism and interpretation

  • Altes, Liesbeth Korthals (2008) "Sincerity, Reliability, and Other Ironies — Notes on Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" in Narrative Unreliability in the Twentieth-Century First-Person Novel (eds. Elke D'hoker and Gunther Martens). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
  • Boxall, Peter. Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2013. [contains discussion of What is the What]
  • D'Amore, Jonathan. American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative: Mailer, Wideman, Eggers. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. [joint study on works of Norman Mailer, John Edgar Wideman, and Eggers; contains discussion of ... Staggering Genius, "Mistakes We Knew We Were Making", You Shall Know Our Velocity, and What is the What]
  • den Dulk, Allard. Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer. Bloomsbury, 2014. [joint study on the works of Eggers, David Foster Wallace, and Jonathan Safran Foer; contains discussion of ... Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity and The Circle]
  • Funk, Wolfgang. The Literature of Reconstruction: American Literature in the New Millennium. Bloomsbury. 2015 [contains a chapter on 'reconstructing the author' in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius]
  • Galow, Timothy W. Understanding Dave Eggers. University of South Carolina Press. 2014.
  • Giles, Paul. The Global Remapping of American Literature. Princeton University Press, 2011 [contains discussion of ... Staggering Genius and What is the What]
  • Grassian, Daniel. Hybrid Fictions: American Literature and Generation X. McFarland, 2003 [contains discussion of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius]
  • Hamilton, Caroline D. "Blank Looks: Reality TV and Memoir in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Australasian Journal of American Studies, vol.28, no.2. (December 2009), pp.31-46
  • Hamilton, Caroline D. One Man Zeitgeist: Dave Eggers, Publishing and Publicity. Bloomsbury, 2012.
  • Holland, Mark K. Succeeding Postmodernism: Language and Humanism in Contemporary American Literature. Bloomsbury, 2013. [contains discussion of ... Staggering Genius]
  • Jensen, Mikkel (2014) "A Note on a Title: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" in The Explicator. Volume 72, Issue 2.[1]
  • Mosseau, Robert. "Connecting Travel Writing, Bildungsroman, and Therapeutic Culture in Dave Eggers's Literature" in Lanzendorfer, Tim [ed.] The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel. Lexington Books, 2015. [contains discussion of You Shall Know Our Velocity and A Hologram for the King]
  • Nicol, Bran (2006) "'The Memoir as Self-Destruction': Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" in Modern Confessional Writing (ed. Jo Gill). New York: Routledge.
  • Peek, Michelle. "Humanitarian Narrative and Posthumanist Critique: Dave Eggers's What is the What. Biography. 35.1 (Winter, 2012), pp.115-136.
  • Pignagnoli, Virginia. "Sincerity, Sharing, and Authorial Discourses on the Fiction/Nonfiction Distinction: The Case of Dave Eggers's You Shall Know Our Velocity" in Lanzendorfer, Tim [ed.] The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel. Lexington Books, 2015. [contains discussion of You Shall Know Our Velocity and The Circle]
  • Sommerfeld, Stephanie. "Nature Revisited: Postironic Sublimity in Dave Eggers" in Pierce, Gillian B. [ed.] The Sublime Today: Contemporary Readings in the Aesthetic. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. 67-101.
  • Timmer, Nicoline. Do You Feel it Too? The Post-Postmodern Syndrome in American Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium. Rodopi, 2010. [contains discussion of ... Staggering Genius]
  • Varvogli, Aliki. Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction. Routledge, 2012. [Contains discussion of What Is the What and You Shall Know Our Velocity]
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