I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. Dave Eggers backdistributemorning Change image and share on social
I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve. Dave Eggers borehavepostmodern share on social
Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. Dave Eggers acquaintbadlyfeel Change image and share on social
I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked. Dave Eggers documentheadjump share on social
Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that. Dave Eggers bitedimensionalfloat Change image and share on social
I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City. Dave Eggers abdullaharabiacity Change image and share on social
Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time. Dave Eggers goodhumaninteraction Change image and share on social
But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization. Dave Eggers arabiacategorizationdefy Change image and share on social
The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out. Dave Eggers beginendestablish Change image and share on social
McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object. Dave Eggers bookbuildbusiness Change image and share on social
