This week we're delighted to present this late night, transatlantic phone chat with the legendary Dave Eggers! Dave is the author of many books including The Circle, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Museum of Rain. His latest if the tech satire The Every. He's also the founder of publishing house McSweeney's and co-founder of 826 National, a network of youth writing and tutoring centres around America. We talked to him about avoiding The Plague, deep-diving into Melville, timeless kids books and who the funniest writer in the world happens to be.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Daisy Buchanan - Careering
Dave Eggers - Heartbreaking Work...
Dave Eggers - The Every
Dave Eggers - The Circle
Albert Camus - The Plague
Herman Melville - Selected Writing
Herman Melville - Moby Dick
Frank Herbert - Dune
Walter Wangerin - Book of the Dun Cow
Richard Adams - Watership Down
Jason Reynolds - Long Way Down
L Frank Baum - Wizard of Oz
Hugh Lofting - Dr Dolittle
Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island
Florence and Richard Atwater - Mr Poppers Penguins
SE Hinton - The Outsiders
Beverley Cleary - Beezus and Ramona
Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows
EB White - Trumpet of the Swan
EB White - Charlotte's Web
Katherine Ryan - The Audacity
EB White - Letters
EB White - One Man's Meat
Kurt Vonnegut - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
John Brandon - Ivory Shoals
Peter Ferry - Old Heart
Vendela Vida - We Run The Tides
Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run Frog Hospital
Lorrie Moore - Birds of America
Richard Russo - Straight Man
Nick Hornby - How To Be Good
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