Dollars & Sense blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rudolph Delson over at The Awl has read it for you, in a real-time blog reading this weekend, with fabulous comments from The Awl's witty subscribers. My favorite bit from Saturday's posts: Delson compares the cover of Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius ("The Memoir that Began the Decade") with the covor of Palin's over-hyped memoir, Going Rogue ("The Memoir that...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers relive the cold winter's day when they went to visit famously prickly writer Maurice Sendak, to talk about filming Where the Wild Things Are Dave Eggers: So here we are. It's always awkward doing this kind of thing together. If we wrote this the way we wrote the script, fighting over every word, it would probably take a year. Spike Jonze: We should just have a conversation....
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Sarah Palin's book tour hit Noblesville, Illinois Thursday night, where 1000 fans were told that they would have their books signed, but their adoration quickly turned to hate when Palin's bus took off early, leaving over 300 former fans chanting "quitter!" and "sign our books!" Palin fandom can withstand anything, it seems, but a personal slight. In other Palin news today, Rudolph...
Needcoffee.com (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Written by: Dave Eggers & Spike Jonze, based on the book by Maurice SendakDirected by: Spike JonzeStarring: Max Records, Catherine Keener, Paul Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Forest Whitaker My Advice: Don't miss it. Max (Records) is a young, imaginative energetic boy. He has a sister (Pepita Emmerichs) and a mother (Keener). His father is not present. [...]
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Guardian blogger Chris Cox argues that criticizing Dave Eggers is officially outdated*. Eggers, who won the Literarian Award this week at the tender age of 39, has long been charged with hipster-ism, pretentiousness, and the crime of being too generous, prolific and commercially successful. Eggers retains a dedicated following of naysayers. If you’ve not noticed, try [...]
Hypetrak (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Opening Ceremony and the Where The Wild Things Are franchise have teamed up to release a special copy of the novel by Dave Eggers. Decked out in a fur motif, the book features an opening unveiling the eyes of the book’s main character, Max. The Dave Eggers novel is adapted from the original Maurice Sendak [...]
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Bookish links from around the Web: Happy (belated) birthday, Margaret Atwood. The author turned 70 yesterday Colum McCann has won the fiction prize at the National Book Awards for his novel Let the Great World Spin. Also at last night’s gala in New York, Dave Eggers picked up the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American [...]
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
James Franco, actor, creative writing student, and soon-to-be published author, attended last night's National Book Awards at Cipriani downtown, and hence spent most of the evening basking in the attention of being the most famous person at the party: He was more recognizable than honoree Gore Vidal, more rakishly handsome than Dave Eggers, and definitely more rich than anyone else in the room. Franco...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate literature and to wonder about its future. Lifetime achievement winner Gore Vidal envisioned only pulp and dust Wednesday as he contemplated the state of books, while fellow honorary winner Dave Eggers declared that we live in a golden age. The evening's host, Andy Borowitz, joked that the meaning of publishing was "a lot of hard work....
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
By News staff Waldrop Providence poet Keith Waldrop's "Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy" has won the National Book Award for poetry. Waldrop, who lives on the East Side, has taught at Brown for 41 years, where he is the Brooke Russell Astor Professor of Humanities . Waldrop, 76, has written about 20 books of poetry. He's also an actor, director and publisher. Critics and admirers have called...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Irish-born writer's novel Let the Great World Spin, focused on Philip Petit's World Trade Centre tightrope walk, acclaimed as 'gravity-defying feat' Colum McCann won the fiction prize at the National Book awards in New York last night for his novel Let the Great World Spin, an allegorical story inspired by the events of 9/11 and set around Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between the twin towers in...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Check here for a list of winners. Names will be added as they are received. Best of 60 yrs of nba winners: Complete Stories of Flannery O'connor (was put to a vote on the web, 10,000 responses) Young people's literature: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Philip Hoose Poetry: Transcendental Studies by Keith Waldrop Non-fiction: The First Tycoon, by TJ Stiles Fiction Let the Great World Spin,...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
9:00 Eggers reads a letter to publishers from a girl says, "I'll only read books on paper. That's how my parents did it," and is greeted by loud cheers from the crowd. "She followed with expletives about a certain digital reader," Eggers added. 8:52 In her speech before giving out the Literarian Award, Samantha Hunt just compared Dave Eggers to Barney Rosset and Lawrence Ferlinghetti...
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Any truth in the charges of pretentiousness still being levelled at him stopped applying nearly a decade ago It may not rouse too much interest on this side of the Atlantic, but tonight Dave Eggers will be presented with the Literarian Award by the National Book Foundation for "outstanding service to the American literary community". It's the third major prize Eggers has won in as many years....
Campaign for Unshaved Snatch (CUSS) (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
1. My scary bear hat flew off my personage when a big gust of wind overtook me in London on Saturday. It landed in a muddy puddle at the edge of the curb. As I reached out to pluck it up, I realized that a bus was barreling down the road. I wondered if I could grab it before the bus got there. I snatched back my hand with a second to spare. Unfortunately, the bus ran over my poor hat. When the light...
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