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	Books: Rotten Eggers (Tucson Weekly . 04-03-00)
		Eggers dwells at length upon the gory physical details of his mother's death, returning to them somewhat gratuitously at unpredictable intervals; and yet of all his siblings, he seems to believe, he is the most devoted -- the only one who tracks down his mother's ashes, who worries about her headstone.
		In fact Eggers' style of parenting approaches the puritanical; he self-righteously (though jokingly, so as not to offend the liberal reader) proposes jail time for a mother he meets who lets her teenager smoke up at home.
		And, because Eggers is a trendy magazine editor and a schmoozer, he has the weight of a huge publicity machine behind him, rocketing his book to the bestseller list inside three weeks.
	weeklywire.com /ww/04-03-00/tw_book.html (932 words)

	Metroactive Books \| David Eggers
		Eggers is known in these parts not just for Might but also for his Smarter Feller comic strip (which ran in Bay Area alternative newspapers, including this one) and his article "The F Word" (which appeared in San Francisco Metropolitan).
		Eggers has unleashed their hairy imaginations upon the unsuspecting reading public, and the result is an idiosyncratic blend of short stories, essays, reviews, actual and pretend journalism, screenplay fragments, charts and other chronicles of indeterminate nature.
		Eggers gleefully flouts literary convention by refusing to worship at the altar of the muse.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/12.03.98/cover/lit-zine-9848.html (719 words)

	The agony and the irony \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Eggers grew up in Lake Forest, an affluent town near Chicago (described by a friend in the book as 'a nightmare WASP utopia') with his lawyer father and schoolteacher mother, his two older siblings, Beth and Bill and, later, Toph.
		Eggers describes locking himself in his room and attempting to escape through the window with a sheet tied to the bed as his father pounded furiously on the door.
		Eggers has been portrayed by the American press as supremely unworldly, largely because of reports that he lives in a bedsit and turned down a $2 million offer for the film rights to AHWOSG because he would find a film too upsetting.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/biography/story/0,6000,220588,00.html (1640 words)

	The Lemony Site - Lemony Articles - The Village Voice
		As soon as the will comes through, Eggers finds himself saddled with the burden of raising his little brother, along with the burdens of grief, financial responsibility, ambition, cynicism, and an on-again, off-again relationship that flickers like a strobe.
		Eggers has warned us, back in the introduction, about the uneven parts, but the fact remains that they are still there.
		Optional Paragraph #1: Eggers portrays the insularity of his group of friends with his usual keen accuracy, but this means that reading about his complicated entanglements brings on the same fidgety impatience and queasy ennui you experience when you're entangled yourself.
	whoswhohp.tripod.com /lemony/articles/vv022000.html (1019 words)

	Culturebox Rules: Dave Eggers vs. David Kirkpatrick - By Eliza Truitt - Slate Magazine
		Eggers was so enraged by the piece that he responded with a "Clarification" on his Web site that included the entire text of his e-mail correspondence with Kirkpatrick, which Kirkpatrick had requested remain confidential.
		Eggers, who says he was asleep in a time zone 18 hours ahead, did not get the e-mail until the next day: "you told me it would be coming on the 12th I expected it during New York's business hours," he explained.
		Eggers' charges against Kirkpatrick are: 1) disingenuous buttering up; 2) "Factual fabrications"; 3) using a sneering, unpleasant tone in his article; 4) repeated use of off-the-record quotes; and 5) defaulting on his promise to let Eggers check the text of his remarks.
	www.slate.com /id/101481 (1585 words)

	Surfline \| David Eggers (January 8, 1970-)
		Eggers' parents, Jim and Patti Eggers, both grew up in Pacific Beach, Jim a hot rod buff and Patti the typical San Diego beach girl.
		David and his brothers enjoyed rafting and bodyboarding for a few years before graduating to surfing.
		At age nine, Eggers had surfed his first contest, finished sixth in the 15 and under, and was hooked.
	www.surfline.com /surfaz/eggers_david.cfm (1043 words)

	Edging Out Dave Eggers
		Clutter, however, isn't the same as complexity, and the sorry state of Egger's writing is that there is no inner life in his characters--Genius, being a memoir, is that rare exception in his body of work--that gives you a sense of inner life and struggle on the character's part.
		A more recent model for Eggers to go to school on is Esquire writer Mike Sager's new collection of magazine pieces Scary Monsters and Super Freaks, where the writer brings a wonderfully subtle literary personality to his portraits of spectacular American failures at the margins of the mainstream.
		Eggers writes well enough in short bits, patches, a paragraph hither and yon, but he does so without shining any light, nor casting any shades of darkness for that matter; what the world doesn't need is a political satire that cannot convince you that it's an exaggeration of the real thing.
	tedburke2.tripod.com /dave_eggers.html (934 words)

	eggers (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Eggers' first book, the bestselling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, was published in February of this year by Simon and Schuster to rave reviews.
		Resemblances to David Foster Wallace's essays have been noted, and, by their inclusion in McSweeney's, similarities are suggested to the style of Lawrence Weschler and Paul Maliszewski (and others published in The Baffler).
		Eggers, is whether you're on the side of the good guys or the bad guys.
	www.armchairnews.com.cob-web.org:8888 /freelance/eggers.html (5264 words)

	Old and New
		Worse, Eggers read for about 90 seconds from his book, worse still, every question that challenged, or hinted at challenge was dismissed, sometimes glibly, sometimes dismissively, always quickly, so that by the end of evening Dave had said little of value.
		Eggers seemed to be pulling the stereotypical Gen-X trope of being unwilling or afraid to passionately defend or stand behind his work and ideas.
		Eggers seemed content to partially orchestrate a bizarre spectacle, to watch bemusedly as the ad-libs derailed and re-railed themselves again and again.
	www.biggeworld.com /archive/tcdotcom/eggers.html (2095 words)

	"You Shall Know Our Velocity" by Dave Eggers - Salon
		Will Chmlielewski, the hero and narrator of "You Shall Know Our Velocity," is seeking relief for his head, which, on the inside, has been badly affected by the death of a friend and, on the outside, has been beaten to a pulp by a band of toughs.
		Eggers is a wonderful writer, bold and inventive, with the technique of a magic realist.
		If it sounds a bit sophomoric, it is. So is "On the Road." So was "Emile." A certain crabbed critic for a paper of record has complained about Eggers' "shaggy-dog plot" and "self-indulgent yapping," but I think she's showing her age.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2002/10/31/eggers (1040 words)

	The believer - Salon
		Dave Eggers talks about production by procrastination, how understanding book-selling can empower a writer, and what it's like to be the head of a publishing empire that everyone has an opinion about.
		In conversation Eggers is funny, chatty, uninhibited, and a true master of the extended tangent.
		Among the topics discussed: Eggers' take on short fiction, his adaptation of "Where the Wild Things Are" for Spike Jonze -- and, yes, the culture of McSweeney's and the culture that's chosen to define itself in opposition to it.
	www.salon.com /books/int/2005/03/09/eggers/index.html (939 words)

	Collected Miscellany - Paying Teachers: David Eggers and Unions
		Eggers bemoans the low pay of teachers and the fact that they often have to work two jobs to make a living.
		Eggers can complain all he wants about how society doesn't value teachers but the fact is that unions value security and power more than they do excellence.
		I haven't read the egger's article, but I'd like to make a little point about teacher's unions (and while this is lengthy, I should add that I'm not trolling, I love your blog and read it regularly, however, my mother was an educator and I have a bit of experience with similar situation).
	collectedmiscellany.com /archives/000225.php (2103 words)

	sfweekly.com - Arts & Entertainment - Growing Up in Public
		For weeks Eggers produced brilliant strips on the guy in the Gold Club ads, and by the time he was done, Smarter Feller was a surreal commentary on nothing in particular, a stick-figure Seinfeld whose main character was a talking handbag.
		If Eggers spun the story of his 20s around himself, Powers tries to couch her own tales around the nebulous concept of "bohemia." The nebulous aspect is the problem -- Powers continues to reference it, but never quite gets around to defining it.
		Unlike Eggers, Powers feels that the lives of people in their 20s are in fact quite easy to make interesting -- there's a whole ferment of experimentation with sex, drugs, and personality in general, and she gives those stories a weight, worth, and power surprisingly often.
	www.sfweekly.com /issues/2000-03-08/culture/books_full.html (1558 words)

	Author Information: David Eggers :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		Literary "it-boy" David Eggers established an early cult following in the 1990's as the founding editor of Might magazine.
		After its slow, eventual and inevitable demise, Eggers revived the world of literary journals with the publication of McSweeney's, a magazine that was "designed to fail." It failed this goal.
		Eggers now writes under his own name as well as various pseudonyms.
	www.iblist.com /author404.htm (101 words)

	Dave Eggers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eggers was born in Chicago, Illinois, grew up in suburban Lake Forest, and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
		Egger's most recent novel, What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, was published by McSweeney's and released on October 26, 2006.
		Eggers currently teaches writing in San Francisco at 826 Valencia, a nonprofit tutoring center and writing school for children which he cofounded in 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dave_Eggers (1078 words)

	Comments on 5970 \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Eggers says something in the clarification piece about how he was thinking about stopping the production of the paperback (as if it was his choice).
		David Eggers basically seems to think that all critics are no-good cockfarmers: whether this is because he's sensitive to criticism himself or genuinely can't see what purpose negative criticism serves, I don't know.
		Eggers is very particular about how he and his family is portrayed, one of my journalist colleagues calls him an “egomaniac” whenever the topic comes up.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/5970 (4282 words)

	Author David Eggers to Speak at Colby-Sawyer College
		In his book, Eggers presents a humorous and perceptive memoir about the travails of raising his younger brother following the death of their parents.
		Eggers opens with about 40 pages of “Rules and Suggestions for Enjoyment of the Book,” as well as hilarious footnotes and silly acknowledgments.
		Eggers serves as editor of the magazine, a whimsical journal that has lassoed such literary stars as David Foster Wallace and Rick Moody.
	www.colby-sawyer.edu /news/archive/pr190.html (531 words)

	village voice > news > Mighty McSweeney's by Matt Goldberg
		But even the most jaded media observers were surprised when David Eggers became an editor at Esquire in the wake of the much bemoaned demise of Might magazine a few years back.
		Even if you're Eggers, alone in a Brooklyn apartment in your underwear, producing the site on a six-year-old computer with one free megabyte of memory (which is either very refreshing or unfortunately reminiscent of 1995).
		Eggers originally saw the Web as a cheap and timely way to publish sarcastic, ephemeral rants about pop culture and the media.
	www.villagevoice.com /columns/9912/goldberg.shtml (1475 words)

	Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work
		Having said that, we have to point out that Dave Eggers is a kid himself, writing in a breathless Salinger/Tom Wolfe style that is funny, winsome, gripping, and full of fireworks.
		We are in the head of a young man who is filled with the fantasies and vocabulary of the juvenile set in America --- but carries along with a strange load, one that is, forsooth, quite rare.
		I have the feeling she expects me, because I am closer to her high schooler's age than she is, and, because I have creative facial hair, to be sympathetic to her point of view.
	www.ralphmag.org /AA/heartbreaking.html (817 words)

	Rake's Progress: It's a floor wax and a dessert topping! (UPDATED!) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		David Foster Wallace has long straddled the worlds of difficult and not-as-difficult, with most readers agreeing that his essays are easier to read than his fiction, and his journalism most accessible of all.
		I'd be more into your "humorously pointed questions" about Eggers intellectual honesty and consistency if you'd put your own money where your mouth is and admit that this isn't some kind of noble quest for the truth, but rather your shot at making Eggers look bad, something you seem to really want to do.
		It's a pissing match (or would be if Eggers cared to piss back) and every time you post and claim that you're after "truth" and the like, you come off worse and worse.
	www.rakesprogress.com.cob-web.org:8888 /rakes_progress/2006/11/its_a_floor_wax.html (4701 words)

	Culturebox Rules: Dave Eggers vs. David Kirkpatrick - By Eliza Truitt - Slate Magazine (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If Eggers' posting of their e-mail exchange is correct and complete, Kirkpatrick broke a basic rule of journalism.
		But Eggers gets schoolyard-bully mean: He quotes a friend who called Kirkpatrick's piece " 'a gossipy thing written by a bitter little bastard.' You actually know the person who characterized it that way.
		The only reason Eggers book has become a success is because his readers are the products of suburbia as well, prone to the same delusions and same ability to divorce themselves from their own mediocrity.
	www.slate.com.cob-web.org:8888 /id/101481 (1588 words)

	Amazon.de: Reach: English Books: Don Bajema,David Eggers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Editor savant and New York media darling David Eggers caused many a ripple with his hip quarterly McSweeney's, and Eggers' neo-ironic memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is shaking the book world.
		While that title couldn't have given Eggers much to work with, he admirably rose to the task, providing a drawing of a hand which does nothing but reach, a second hand dramatically grasping the wrist of the first.
		Apparently produced shortly after the collapse of Eggers' satirical bimonthly Might, the cover for REACH encompasses something of a schizoid period in Eggers' evolution as an artistic maverick, and accounts for much of the dramatic style changes that marked his renewed splash with McSweeney's.
	www.amazon.de /Reach-Don-Bajema/dp/1880985195 (981 words)

	Yale Bulletin and Calendar - Current Issue
		When asked to describe how he got to where he is today, David Eggers, author of the semi-autobiographical book "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," answered, "A car came to pick me up and dropped me off here.
		The reviewer also praised the weight of the book, which was "just enough to drop on someone from a second-story window and stun, but not permanently injure, them." Eggers's fun was cut short, however, when Amazon discovered these nonsensical reviews and deleted them all from their site.
		Eggers went on to say that the easiest thing to do is to dismiss.
	www.yale.edu /opa/v28.n30/story9.html (846 words)

	Amazon.com: A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius : A Memoir Based on a True Story: Books: Dave Eggers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At the age of 22, Eggers became both an orphan and a "single mother" when his parents died within five months of one another of unrelated cancers.
		In the early '90s, Eggers was one of the founders of the very funny Might Magazine, and he spends a fair amount of time here on Might, the hipster culture of San Francisco's South Park, and his own efforts to get on to MTV's Real World.
		Eggers is a generous person and just gave it to me. It's hard to believe a person can deal with both parents dying 32 days apart but this is the funniest book I've ever read.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/0684863472 (2036 words)

	David Eggers: ZoomInfo Business People Information
		David M. Eggers of Neurosurgical Consultants have begun performing a procedure at Deaconess Hospital in which they remove the damaged disc and replaced it with the new Chariteâ¢ Artificial Disc, a high-tech device made of two metallic endplates and a movable high-density plastic center.
		Eggers said, âand the results have been outstanding.
		David Eggers earned his medical degree from the University of Louisville and completed post-graduate training in Lexington, Kentucky; London, England; and San Francisco, California.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/Eggers_David_771883924.aspx (196 words)

	FoE! Log #5: Eggers, The Literary Dairy Substitute
		For instance, when he mistakes his own alter-ego's name and then corrects himself by saying "or whatever she calls him." Maybe I am just not as cool as he is, but for some reason I think I would remember the name of my alter-ego in a book like that.
		Yes, most of them are smart enough to know not to complain in print, as Millet did, that that they were published by the same company (Simon and Schuster) as Eggers but were paid about ten times less (she probably got around $10,000).
		In short, they want to be on Eggers' good side, and would not dare mess with the McSweeney's Representative (especially by using those gimmicky footnotes at the end of their literary criticism to prove their point, as Millet does at the end of her review in such a, well, tacky fashion).
	www.aphrodigitaliac.com /mm/archive/2000/04/03 (1567 words)

	Legal Ramblings: David Eggers's pirate store
		David Eggers's pirate store: I was randomly surfing the Internet today when I came across this article on the resurgence of pirate culture.
		In the pilot episode of Fox's new sitcom Arrested Development (which also includes Jason Bateman!), David Cross carouses on a barge full of homosexuals whom he believes--quite understandably--to be pirates.
		And perhaps most curiously, post-ironic literary whiz kid Dave Eggers has opened a pirate store in San Francisco.
	www.scwu.com /news/static/112821694914489.shtml (376 words)

	BBC - collective - tinseltown #070: david eggers, starsky and hutch
		The spawn of author Dave Eggers’ growing literary empire, McSweeney’s, is finally going to hit the big screen.
		Given the website and magazine’s high quotient of both lovers and haters in the book world, and given Hollywood’s known appetite for adaptations, it’s surprising that more writers associated with McSweeney’s haven’t seen their film rights turn to film.
		Schreiber has written the screenplay and is now set to make his directorial debut for Warners’ indie arm, with Jason Schwartzman and Elijah Wood in talks to star.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A2385272 (423 words)

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