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Search All of Salon.com Directory Hot Topics Iraq Joe Conason's Journal The Sopranos Osama bin Laden ... World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks Articles by date All of Salon.com By department Get a free Allstate quote Search our Personals ... Corrections Brother knows best Dave Eggers talks, with some reluctance, about the staggering work of being a genius parent. By Amy Benfer L et it be known that Dave Eggers does not want to be interviewed. In the past month, the editor of McSweeney's, a literary quarterly that even Harper's magazine editor Lewis Lapham thinks is hip, and the author of a "memoir-y kind of thing" called "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," has been interviewed by the New York Times, the Village Voice, Time magazine and assorted publications too numerous to mention. Michiko Kakutani, the famously cantankerous New York Times book reviewer, has agreed that Eggers' talent is "staggering," as have writers David Foster Wallace, Rick Moody, David Sedaris and David Remnick (who published an excerpt of his book in the New Yorker under the title of "Here Come the Orphans!" earlier this year.) His readings are standing room only, the new issue of McSweeney's sells out as soon as it arrives (shipping is rather slow, as Eggers decided to have them printed in Iceland), and even his publisher ran out of review copies of the book a week before its publication date. The book in question, Eggers' first, is about a boy (Dave Eggers) raising another boy (his brother, Christopher, called "Toph"). The Eggers' parents died of cancer within 32 days of each other, leaving Dave, then 21, as the surrogate parent of Toph, then 8. They leave their home in the wealthy suburb of Lake Forest (outside Chicago) and follow sister Beth, then 23, to Berkeley, where she attends law school.

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25. Eggers, Dave A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius Literature Annotations. eggers, dave A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. dave eggers is on his way to New York with Toph as the book ends. http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/eggers1712-de

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From The Harvard Advocate AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVE EGGERS Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 17:06:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Saadi Soudavar To: McSweeney's Subject: Attn David Eggers: Harvard Advocate Interview Dear David, I'd first like to say that I hope that, by the time you get these questions, you've extricated yourself from under the perfidious yoke of those Massachusetts McSweeneys. Talk about a McFaustian bargain! We've got a light question for you before we get to the ones culled from the more serious elements of our staff. 0) In his appreciation of your work in the online magazine Feed (www.feedmag.com), Keith Gessen suggests that you might have been able to handle Puck had you been chosen for the "Real World" instead of that sniveling weakling Judd. But in your book you seem to be a little startled by Puck, even cowed. What do you think? Could you have put Puck in his place and kept his scabbed-up fingers out the peanut butter? A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS 1) One of the most interesting aspects of A.H.W.O.S.G. is the consistently self-deprecatory tone. In the preface, for example, a list precisely maps out all the symbolism in the work. On one level, this undercuts the obvious amount of work that's been put into the book by suggesting that the book can be reduced to a very basic level of meaning. But it also functions to point out how much more complicated the book is than the chart makes it seem. The book has been criticized for precisely this reason: in the guise of self-deprecation, it's self-aggrandizing. What are your thoughts on this and, in general, the relation of the author to the text?

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Eggers, Dave Basic Info Purchase Info Detailed Info Inventory Info Customs/Notes ISBN purchase date Sep/26/2001 rating Excellent location At Home custom field 1 format Paperback from category Non-fiction if loaned, to whom? custom field 2 pages price genre if loaned, when? custom field 3 condition New current condition Decent reading status read publisher Vintage Books current value series info Notes Dave Eggers is a terrifically talented writer; don't hold his cleverness against him.

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Booklist Adult v.96 Hot List: Fiction Nonfiction Adult Fiction General Fiction Christian Fiction Mystery Romance ... Science Fiction Adult Nonfiction General Works Psychology Religion Social Sciences ... ALA Home Page How to subscribe to Booklist Magazine Eggers, Dave. "A memoir," says the book's cover, "based on a true story." Readers are advised in the preface that "many parts have been fictionalized," but it is not really clear how much is "real" here and how much is spoof. What could be funny about the final days of Eggers' mother's battle with stomach cancer, just a month after the loss of his father to another form of cancer? Eggers' seemingly flippant, but piercingly observant style, allows hilarity to lead the way in a very personal and revealing recounting of the loss of his parents. Barely out of college, Eggers is responsible for the care of his eight-year-old brother, Toph. Together they relocate from the Midwest to Berkeley, where their sister Beth is in law school. Young, eager, full of himself, Eggers teams up with like-minded pals in the media-crazed early 90s to create the satirical magazine Might , while also making sure he's there for Toph's Little League games and parent/teacher conferences. Eggers voices the classic youthful assumption that the world belongs (or should belong) to him. From anyone else this might be incredibly annoying, but so much is tongue-in-cheek in this work. Not just for the MTV-fan age group, this is a very entertaining, well-written book.

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