MelbourneHumanFemale (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Activities for this year's Festival of Desci* - Where the Wild Things Are . Could not be more Dave Eggars if he played all the parts, had a picture-in-picture commentary and sat beside you as you watched, poking you in the rib. Still, I liked it. It was… impossible, really. I think I have to see it again. I’d love to know your thoughts? - Dinner at Oriental Tea House and...
Another Limited Rebellion (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
In my ongoing quest to visit all of the 826 Stores I managed to stop by the Greater Boston Research Institute on the one day I had to explore Boston on a recent trip up there. Sadly it was a Sunday and the Institute was closed, but even from the outside it was very entertaining. For those of you that aren't familiar with the 826 project it was created, in part by author Dave Eggars,...
Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... Justice . Gore Vidal wins an award for distinguished contribution to American letters, while Dave Eggars wins the Literian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. This year there was also a bonus prize to mark the awards' 60th anniversary. The public voted online for the Best of the National Book Awards , and the winner was Flannery O'Connor's The Complete...
Feld Thoughts (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Over the weekend, I read what I think is going to be my “best book of the year.” It’s Zeitoun by Dave Eggars of McSweeney’s fame. Some people just know how to write. And Eggars is one of them. Wow. As I ran around downtown Manhattan this morning thinking about how radically different my run today was from my typical runs around Eldorado Springs and Boulder, I couldn’t help drifting...
piran café (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Nice review last week in the NY Times of Look at the Birdie, a collection of previously unpublished short fiction by Kurt Vonnegut, which was instantly put on my Xmas gift list — for others, and for me. From Dave Eggars’ intro: It’s been two years since Kurt Vonnegut departed this world, and it’s hard not [...]
Another Limited Rebellion (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
I've made a point of checking out the 826 stores whenever I travel to a city that has one. Happily I had some time on my recent LA visit to check out the Echo Park Time Travel Mart . For those of you that aren't familiar with the 826 project it was created, in part by author Dave Eggars, to facilitate creative writing programs for kids. The first location was 826Valencia and its adjoining...
i will visit bhutan (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Because you miss my writing, critique this piece of complete shit! Its really awful but possibly entertaining, a first draft for an essay for my english class. The essays I refer to are Dave Eggars' "Serve or Fail," Stanley Fish's "Why We Built the Ivory Tower," and Neil Postman's "Order in the Classroom." Postman addresses a deteriorating educational process...
Michael Sporn Animation - Splog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
- The New York Times reported that Jonathan Demme is planning to make an animated feature of the book, Zeitoun by Dave Eggars. The book is about the reconstruction efforts taking place in New Orleans done since the Katrina disaster effort. Apparently Demme was taken by the illustration on the cover of the book and immediately [...]
