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Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is known for the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and for his subsequent work as a novelist and screenwriter. He is also the founder of McSweeney's, the co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia, and the founder of ScholarMatch, a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition. His writing has appeared in several magazines. His works have received a significant amount of critical acclaim.
Eggers was born in Boston, Massachusetts, one of four siblings. His father was John K. Eggers (1936–1991), an attorney. His mother, Heidi McSweeney Eggers (1940–1992), was a school teacher. When Eggers was still a child, the family moved to the upscale suburb of Lake Forest, near Chicago, where he attended high school and was a classmate of actor Vince Vaughn. Eggers attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, intending to get a degree in journalism, but his studies were interrupted by the deaths of both of his parents in 1991–1992—his father in 1991 from brain and lung cancer, and his mother in January 1992 from stomach cancer. Both were in their 50s.
Portlandia and Transparent actress, Sleater-Kinney guitarist, NPR contributor, screenwriter and all-around cool person Carrie Brownstein has spent three years working on a deeply personal and revealing memoir. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl is a narrative of Brownstein’s life in music, from ardent fan to her days as a guitarist for Excuse 17 – a pioneering band in the Riot Grrrl scene – to her success as both a comedic performer and rock luminary as Sleater-Kinney rose to the top of the indie-rock world. Hear the story of the dawn of the underground feminist punk-rock movement that would define music and pop culture from one of its founding mothers. Join the conversation on Twitter: @ArtsJCCSF Join the conversation on Facebook: facebook.com/ArtsandIdeasJCCSF/
Dave Eggers talks about his book, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius." »»﴿───► See more on the Authors Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIZqvqbtz9I30kDK7RrKXxtLK9WxA33-T
Authors Dave Eggers and Jonah Lehrer discuss the cliche of the 'tortured artist', the difficulty of the creative process, and the 'grit' needed to succeed. Eggers and Lehrer participated in The Connecticut Forum's "Creative Minds" Forum on November 18, 2011 with Lyle Lovett, Miranda July and moderator Randy Cohen. Learn more about The Connecticut Forum and upcoming events at www.ctforum.org See FULL FORUMS at www.theforumchannel.tv
Here is dinner for five episode 5 from season 2 Starring David Byrne, Dave Eggers, Janeane Garofalo, Joe Pantoliano
Dave Eggers at the beginning talking about "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius." From April 6, 2000. There are two interviews from this year.
Discussion with Philip Shishkin: Dave Eggers, Co-founder, 826 National
Here's my book review for The Circle by Dave Eggers! It's a really interesting book about Mae Holland who gets a job at a huge internet company called The Circle. It's scary how much this parallels our real world with social media and companies like Google. They're also making a film adaptation, which is coming out in 2016. The film will star Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega, Karen Gillian, Patton Oswalt, and Bill Paxton. Like and Subscribe for more book reviews, music reviews, hauls, cosplay, contests, and more! Check out some of my other recent videos: Book Haul | December 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uXr81yQwS4 Mouthful of Forevers by Clementine von Radics | Poetry Book Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znCdHKuuLUU Montress #1 by Marjorie Liu | Comic Book Review...
In which Ryan review The Circle, a 2013 novel by Dave Eggers. (filmed before leaving for California) This book get's a hard rap sometimes, and understandably so. But I think it's also true that, if we examine our expectations about the book, we can still find value in it. I'm a big fan of the way this novel made me think about life in the 2010's, though I'm not in love with the way the story is crafted or told. YOU CAN FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL THINGS! twitter: https://twitter.com/ftloryan tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/ftloryan youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ryanrabid ♬♬♬
Author Dave Eggers visited Tides Learning Community with his Voice of Witness nonprofit book series. In his 2008 TED Prize acceptance speech, he asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools.
http://www.ted.com Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbinding eagerness, he talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring center inspired others around the world to open their own volunteer-driven, wildly creative writing labs. But you don't need to go that far, he reminds us -- it's as simple as asking a teacher "How can I help?" He asks that we share our own volunteering stories at his new website, Once Upon a School.
Commencement Speech to Kenyon College class of 2005 written by David Foster Wallace
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. South Sudanese Valentino Achak Deng speaks about his life as a war survivor and his efforts for health-care and education in the ravaged communities of his homeland. Valentino was born in southern Sudan (now South Sudan), in the village of Marial Bai. He fled in the late 1980s during the second Sudanese civil war, when his village was destroyed by murahaleen—the same type of militia that currently terrorize the Darfur region of Sudan. Deng spent nine years in Ethiopian and Kenyan refugee camps, where he worked for the UNHCR as a social advocate and reproductive health educator. In 2001, he resettled to Atlanta, GA. Deng has toured the United States speaking about his life in South Sudan, his experien...
Dave Isay of StoryCorps won the 2015 TED Prize, and wished to scale the intimate experience of recording a StoryCorps interview by creating an app that would let people do this anywhere, at any time. A year later, at TED2016, he shares what's happened since. Hint: It's more than doubled StoryCorps' archive of voices.
CEO of The City Club of Cleveland gives his TEDx talk at Shaker Heights High School. Dan Moulthrop is CEO of The City Club of Cleveland, the nation’s oldest continuously running free speech forum. He was a co-founder of The Civic Commons, a Knight Foundation project creating a social media environment designed for civil civic dialogue. Prior to that, he was the host of Sound of Ideas on 90.3 WCPN ideastream. Dan is also co-author, with Dave Eggers and Ninive Calegari, of the best-selling book Teachers Have it Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers (The New Press, 2005), which provided the basis for the 2011 documentary "American Teacher." He's an award winning local public radio host, a former high school teacher and a graduate of UC Berkeley's Graduate Schoo...
We work in groups, we work solo. Rarely do we think about what it takes to move between those two paradigms. Sometimes we have to embrace clichés, sometimes the sequel is a better movie than the original. Jason Adams is a writer, editor, and media consultant living in New York City. Until recently, he was executive editor at pop culture bible Entertainment Weekly. His writing has appeared in various publications, including GQ, Food & Wine, Fortune, Runner’s World, Women’s Health, Men’s Journal,National Geographic Adventure, and ESPN The Magazine. Additionally, he has appeared on television and previously co-hosted a weekly radio program for SiriusXM, and has strong relationships in New York media, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. Adams is from Chicago and got his start at Dave Eggers’ Might...
The 2009 selection for One Book One Marin is Dave Eggers highly-acclaimed novel What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng. This story of the lost boys of the Sudan is an inspired choice. Deng was chased from his village at age seven and forced to trek across Africa under the most harrowing circumstances. The San Francisco Chronicle calls the book strange, beautiful and unforgettable. Francine Prose, writing in the N.Y. Times Book Review, called it An extraordinary work of witness, and of art. What is the What was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Book Passage is partnering with the Public Libraries of Marin County, Dominican University of California, the Marin History Museum, Marin Education Fund, and others for this county-wide celebration. Dave Egg...
You can read part of 'The Circle' here - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/magazine/dave-eggers-fiction.html?pagewanted=all and another part here - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10356248/The-Circle-by-Dave-Eggers-exclusive-extract.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9No-FiEInLA - Google footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIbx8dO4ZcU - CCTV clips from here Fair Use, etc etc
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A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING Official Trailer (2016) Subscribe to FilmTrailerZone: http://ow.ly/adpvg Like us on Facebook: http://ow.ly/rduc2 Follow us on Twitter: http://ow.ly/ay0gU In Theatres May 20th. A failed American businessman looks to recoup his losses by traveling to Saudi Arabia and selling his idea to a wealthy monarch. Director: Tom Tykwer Writers: Dave Eggers (novel), Tom Tykwer (screenplay) Stars: Tom Hanks, Ben Whishaw, Tom Skerritt Genre: Drama A Hologram for the King official trailer courtesy of Lionsgate. FilmTrailerZone is the #1 destination for all movie fans to catch the latest movie trailers, clips, featurettes & much more of the latest promotional content from your most anticipated movies!
http://www.valentinoachakdeng.org In September 2008 Valentino Achak Deng and Dave Eggers were back in Valentino's hometown of Marial Bai, Southern Sudan, where they are constructing a secondary school and a large educational center using the proceeds from Eggers's novel What Is the What. They interviewed three girls who hope to attend Valentino's school about their hopes and impediments as young women growing up in Southern Sudan. To learn about the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation and our school-building project in Marial Bai, or for more about Dave and Valentino's recent trip to Sudan, please visit www.valentinoachakdeng.org.
Born in Boston, Dave Eggers is the author of the memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000); the novel You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002); the story collection How We Are Hungry (2004); and the novel What Is the What (2006). He is editor of the annual The Best American Nonrequired Reading series, and co-editor of the Voice of Witness series of oral histories. To book now: http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/dave-eggers
Dean Goranites' review of the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owq8lJSJFM4 My Top 10 best books I've read in 2012 (in which I briefly talk about the Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5y-jonfngQ My review of How We Are Hungry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvrhK_R6yuY My thoughts on Dave Eggers' last effort, the National-Book-Award-finalist, mixed-reviews-arousing (?) Hologram for the King. A good novel deeply rooted in these times we're all living in, though a bit too open one - not only on a narrative level. Have you read the novel, or any other Eggers' book? Did you like it? Do you think authors ought to have and express strong opinions? Let me know in the comments!
Dave Eggers is among the most celebrated of the emerging generation of American writers. His memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, has been one of the most talked about and hotly debated books of the past decade. In addition to his own writing, Eggers is an inspiration and catalyst for the contemporary writing scene, especially in San Francisco where he lives. Besides editing the influential quarterly journal McSweeney's, Eggers is the founding director of 826 Valencia, a nonprofit educational center for Bay Area youth, which has spawned similar centers in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, and Ann Arbor. He is coeditor of Voice of Witness, a series of books about human rights issues around the world. Eggers is working on a novel about the civil war in Sudan. For the ...
An excerpt from an September 29, 2004 appearance by author and humorist Dave Eggars at the New York State Writers Institute (http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/). Dave Eggers is the author of the memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000), which chronicles his experience at the age of 21, losing both his parents from cancer within a span of five weeks and become parent to his seven-year-old brother. The book quickly became a New York Times bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and was named Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and Time. You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002), Eggers' first novel, is the story of two young Americans who travel around the world handing out money to very poor people. His latest book is How We Are...
Sorry it's so dark. I kind of had to wait until the last minute, and the computer's attached to the interwebs. No wi-fi in cowtown. ;) Not mentioned: Read "You Shall Know Our Velocity" by Dave Eggers. He wrote "What is the What" and "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," and he writes beautifully. I mention this here because the plot is about a round-the-world trip to get rid of money. Not for reasons you'd think.
Better Than Fiction Yet and Closely After 2006 Burning Bridge Recordings
Taking its reader -- and author -- on a rapid-fire, minute-by-minute, two-week marathon of quotidian adventures, from the largest fire in the history of Colorado to a 22-hour vegetable oil-powered bus ride, Back to Hollywood is an amusing and observant novella for and about the times we live in today. After having spent two years on the road and in the humble haven of Boulder, a young man goes back to the bright lights, big city of Los Angeles from whence he had come. Along the way, he sees old friends, visits favorite former haunts, reminisces about his early adulthood spent in Hollywood, and works to set up the screening of his first feature-film, which deals with a band of disabled rock stars he'd taken on tour three summers earlier. All the while, this young man on the cusp of 30 co...
"Rock You Like a Hurricane" is a song by the German rock band Scorpions. The song was released as the lead single from their ninth studio album, Love at First Sting (1984). It was written by Klaus Meine, and Herman Rarebell, and composed by Rudolf Schenker, the lyrics of "Rock You Like a Hurricane" also reference the title of the album on which it originally appeared – Love at First Sting. "Rock You Like a Hurricane" reached number 25 in the USA Billboard Hot 100, greatly contributing to the album's success, and MTV put the video in heavy rotation. In 2006, VH1 named "Rock You Like a Hurricane" number 31 on their 40 Greatest Metal Songs and in 2009 it was named the 18th greatest hard rock song of all time also by VH1. On November 15, 2010, it was named the number 4 best riff of the '80s....
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No vídeo desta semana, o professor Neto fala a respeito de dois romances do escritor americano Dave Eggers: "O círculo" e "Um holograma para o rei". Dois livros que conseguem equilibrar entretenimento com visão social aguda. Dominando com maestria os instrumentos narrativos, Dave Eggers conta histórias urgentes, que tratam de temas como globalização e poder das redes sociais. Belas maneiras de entendermos o mundo ao nosso redor.
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It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent. I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian. Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization. I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S. I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.
But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization. Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting. I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S. It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent. I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.
But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization. I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S. I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness. I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting. Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.
Dave Eggers discusses the then-exciting American fiction landscape with Michael Silverblatt. From Jun 22, 2000.
Cressida Leyshon speaks with Uwem Akpan, Edwidge Danticat, and Dave Eggers during the New Yorker Festival 2010's "Giving Voice" panel. Still haven’t subscribed to The New Yorker on YouTube? ►► http://bit.ly/newyorkeryoutubesub CONNECT WITH THE NEW YORKER Web: http://www.newyorker.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/NewYorker Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/newyorker Google+: http://plus.google.com/+newyorker Instagram: http://instagram.com/newyorkermag Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/thenewyorker Tumblr: http://newyorker.tumblr.com The Scene: http://thescene.com/thenewyorker Want even more? Subscribe to The Scene: http://bit.ly/subthescene Uwem Akpan, Edwidge Danticat, and Dave Eggers on writing - The New Yorker Festival Starring: Edwidge Danticat