ImmigrationProf Blog (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Valentino Achak Deng is a Sudanese Lost Boy whose story is told in novel form in What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng by Dave Eggers. Deng discusses the novel at here. Valentino Achak Deng was seven...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Dave Eggers' temporally advanced Time Travel Mart in LA ("whenever you are, we're already then!") just released a fantastic poster set that takes on the look and feel of old Pan Am travel ads to hype...
green LA girl (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
If you were moved by Dave Eggers’ TED talk — but never actually signed up to volunteer to put any of your time towards tutoring kids, as Eggers urged you to do via his TED wish, Once Upon a School — here’s a chance to contribute a bit, while getting a quick & dirty [...]
Pop Candy (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Spike Jonze's adaptation of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are -- with a screenplay written by Dave Eggers -- is one of those movies that sounded almost too good to be true. Well, now people are starting to wonder...
TrueHoop (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Things happen in strange ways. Four things have recently caused me to think about the Sudan. Three of them are: After meaning to read it since it first came out, I am now about halfway through Dave Eggers' remarkable book about the war in Sudan called What is the What . It's really something. One of the most moving books I have ever read, and something I think just about everyone should read. I hesitate...
ventedspleen (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
I rarely do things like this but since you’ve managed to find my work and continue to return to it, you are obviously all intelligent and discerning people who deserve a nice friday treat. Treat number one Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genuis and You Shall Know Us By Our Velocity, talks at [...]
BobFromBrockley (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
History doesn't have to be told by the victor. Sometime the best accounts come from the mouths of ordinary people who've been at the sharp end of extraordinary events. Article on Dave Eggers' fascinating oral history project. Keyword: Katrina
World Hum (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Frank Bures I was passing through the Brussels airport this week when I saw a copy of Dave Eggers’ book What is the What? It’s the story of Valentino Achak Deng’s life in Sudan’s civil war and beyond. I’d been avoiding this book, partly because a friend told me it was boring. But on the recommendation of Doreen Baingana , who I met in Entebbe, I picked up a copy, started reading and haven’t stopped....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
A new project led by Dave Eggers is documenting the stories of people whose voices usually go unheard
Schools Matter (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Upcoming film aims to revolutionize public's perception of teachers. HT to Monty Neill: Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Vanessa Roth and best-selling author Dave Eggers are teaming up in an attempt to do for education what "An Inconvenient Truth" did for the environment, writes Claus von Zastrow in the Learning First Alliance's Public School Insights blog. The film aims to document the challenges...
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Guesting on Aimee Mann’s excellent new album @#%&*! Smilers is McSweeney’s czar Dave Eggers, who whistles on the song “Little Tornado” (at least a little bit, anyway). He’s not bad! Read and comment. From nymag.com.
Gawker (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
What is the twee-est contribution that literary twee boy, McSweeney's Dave Eggers, could make to the world of music? Oh—he whistles on the new Aimee Mann track. Of course. [via Daily Intel, who...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Getty Images, FilmMagic Guesting on Aimee Mann's excellent new album @#%&*! Smilers is McSweeney's czar Dave Eggers, who whistles on the song "Little Tornado" ( at least a little bit, anyway ). He's not bad! He's certainly no Axl Rose or anything, but it's good to know he's out there in case some tragic accident should ever befall Peter, Bjorn, or John. Listen to Eggers's whistling below, or download...
The Hero Workshop (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
When I asked why you regular readers visit the blog a common answer was to be inspired. Prepare to be inspired. Christian Long called me tonight to talk about the hero’s journey in high school English and mentioned Dave Eggers’ speech at TED. It was on Christian’s blog that I saw the cyberbullying video. [...]
Afrigator (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
Looks like I'm a lady on the move, as the last profile was in dire need of an update. I moved from a nonprofit to the oil and gas industry. Now I'm back in the nonprofit world. I still love to eat, read, talk about hair and surf the internet. I still love to travel and look forward to visiting new places this year. Email: oreblogging@yahoo.com
