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NEWS ABOUT: Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers stories: 7 news summaries

 Colum McCann 
 Wins National 
 Book Award 

Dave Eggers, Gore Vidal also honored at New York ceremony

Nov 19, 09 9:12 AM CST
(Newser) - Irish-born author Colum McCann won the National Book Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin, a fictional take on the effects of Philippe Petit’s 1970s tightrope walk between the Twin Towers on multiple New Yorkers. The non-fiction prize at last night’s ceremony went to TJ... More »

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National Book Awards • Dave Eggers • Gore Vidal • Colum McCann • T.J. Stiles • National Book Awards winners • Phillip Hoose • Keith Waldrop • Colum McCann National Book Award

 Spike Jonze Brings 
 Wild Things  to Life 

Director fought for years for his vision of Sendak's classic  

Sep 5, 09 8:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Spike Jonze grew up on the children's classic Where the Wild Things Are, and wanted to make a very raw, very unconventional movie of it, portraying the wild things as the scary emotions kids feel. Jonze persuaded Maurice Sendak to take a shot on his vision, but the studio was... More »

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film director • Warner Brothers • Dave Eggers • Spike Jonze • Maurice Sendak • Where the Wild Things Are

 It's a Busy Fall for Books 

Dave Eggers, Philip Roth, Jon Krakauer have new titles out

Sep 4, 09 1:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hoping to salvage a miserable year, publishers are flooding the fall season with more hot tickets than normal. Some samples, from the Wall Street Journal:
  • Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, Sept. 1: The next in a series from the Da Vinci Code writer.
  • Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist,
... More »

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Jonathan Lethem • Pat Tillman • publishing • Jonathan Safran Foer • Dave Eggers • Vladimir Nabokov • Dan Brown • The Lost Symbol • books • Jon Krakauer • Maurice Sendak

INTERVIEW

 Maybe Dave Eggers 
 Can Save Newspapers 


Jun 9, 09 5:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dave Eggers, author, editor, and professed lover of print, is hatching a plan to save newspapers. Or at least a modern version of them. Eggers tells the Rumpus that he and his crew at McSweeney's will publish their version of a daily newspaper in September. It will exist for one... More »

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Hurricane Katrina • New Orleans • publishing • McSweeney's • Dave Eggers • newspaper industry • print • Zeitoun

Glossies

 Death of Reading 
 Greatly Exaggerated 

Author Eggers pooh-poohs skeptical pundits, says it's 'as alive as ever'

Sep 29, 08 4:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Our bleak outlook on the future of reading owes itself to a doomsday reflex, the pervasive belief that things are bound to get worse, author Dave Eggers writes in Esquire. "It must be true, we think—just yesterday I saw some kid on the bus, and he wasn't reading... More »

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literacy • reading • youth • book • children's books • Dave Eggers • publishing industry • 826 Valencia

OPINION

 To Blurb or Not to Blurb 

William Leith defends endorsements

Sep 24, 08 3:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite a reputation for being over the top, book blurbs are more meaningful than not, writes William Leith in the Guardian. The blurber, as a rule, cannot expect endorsement in return, but he "is flattered to be asked, and wants to score a tiny ad for himself on the... More »

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publishing • book • Harold Pinter • Dave Eggers • writers

OPINION

McSweeney's
Is Taking Over the World

Soon we'll all wear cool glasses and pray daily to Michael Chabon

Feb 6, 08 4:22 PM CST
(Newser) - McSweeney's, the hipper-than-thou literary quarterly founded by Dave Eggers in 1998, has become possibly the most influential American literary journal, critic and novelist Stephen Amidon writes in the London Times. Once the champ of spotting new talent, Granta magazine is now taking a backseat to Eggers' baby, and looking stale... More »

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literature • McSweeney's • Dave Eggers • magazine publishing

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