Dave Eggers

Away We Go "Away We Go"

John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph play parents-to-be in this movie by real-life couple Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida.
By Stephanie Zacharek Jun 5, 2009

  • The struggle for independents

    The bankruptcy of a book distributor sent shock waves through the indie publishing world, leaving small presses like McSweeney's struggling to survive. Can the Internet help keep them afloat?
    By Priya Jain June 21, 2007

  • Kurt's canon

    In this entry from "The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors," Dave Eggers summarizes and notates Vonnegut's literary output.
    By Dave Eggers April 12, 2007

  • "What Is the What"

    A scary interaction in America makes Valentino long to be back in a Sudanese refugee camp.
    By Dave Eggers December 13, 2006

  • Best fiction of 2006

    This year, stories from five extraordinary writers about Africa, 9/11's aftermath and the Civil War captivated us the most.
    By Laura Miller and Hillary Frey December 13, 2006

  • The believer

    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.
    By David Amsden March 9, 2005

  • New Hampshire Is for Lovers

    The candidate looked down at his chest and another face, just like his, was looking up at him, grinning like a knife salesman.
    By Dave Eggers August 3, 2004

  • New Hampshire Is for Lovers

    "You're going to run the president as an outsider?" Luis asked. "Yes, Luis," Daniel said, for that was his name.
    By Dave Eggers July 29, 2004

  • New Hampshire Is for Lovers

    A bell rang and the first woman sat down. She resembled, eerily, the mother from "Good Times."
    By Dave Eggers July 27, 2004

  • New Hampshire Is for Lovers

    Dick Benjamin gets an idea: A man with an IQ like his (stratospheric), and influence like his (endless and probing), had obligations that regular people, even professional golfers, couldn't understand.
    By Dave Eggers July 22, 2004

  • The war for the soul of literature

    Two critics, one revered and the other almost universally reviled, protest that the literary world has been taken over by big, bad, "ambitious" novels.
    By Laura Miller July 15, 2004

  • New Hampshire Is for Lovers

    It was happening almost once a day lately. While playing tennis, while bowling, while chewing gum, came the question: "Am I, J. Junior Inferior Jr., actually Jesus Christ?"
    By Dave Eggers July 15, 2004

  • New Hampshire Is for Lovers

    "How many of you dangle, imagining your country hijacked by leftist extremists who want to parade through your town wearing leather and carrying their feces in buckets?"
    By Dave Eggers July 13, 2004

  • New Hampshire Is for Lovers

    "Who is that man in the grip of elm tree? It is I, the 41st president of the United States of America."
    By Dave Eggers June 23, 2004

  • New Hampshire Is for Lovers

    The ex-president glided past clouds, and memories of his youth, while approaching a throng of media and friends ready to welcome him with a rousing cheer. All he had to do was land.
    By Dave Eggers June 16, 2004

  • New Hampshire Is for Lovers

    The Jumper: When the aging ex-president leapt from a plane this time, he would prove -- hands down and forever, time eternal -- which party was more badass and steel-balled.
    By Dave Eggers June 11, 2004

  • New Hampshire Is for Lovers

    The pumpkin-colored T-shirt of the young bed-headed man working at the coffee shop had a word emblazoned on it that was familiar to Victoria, but from where? Then it dawned on her, and she promptly fainted.
    By Dave Eggers May 26, 2004

  • New Hampshire Is for Lovers

    In her mind, she stared at the president and yelled "Liar!" But when she opened her mouth, something altogether different came out.
    By Dave Eggers May 20, 2004

  • New Hampshire Is for Lovers

    "I'm here representing the young people of this country!" Victoria Passionately shrieked at the president. Then her dream of exposing him was smothered in a rich, enveloping sea of humiliation.
    By Dave Eggers May 19, 2004

  • New Hampshire Is for Lovers

    The day had come for Victoria Passionately to make her move -- and cause the president to rue the day he'd ever left his sorry home state.
    By Dave Eggers May 13, 2004

  • New Hampshire Is for Lovers

    Will a disgruntled campaign volunteer have her revenge?
    By Dave Eggers May 6, 2004

  • New Hampshire Is for Lovers

    She was a blond, bitchy, bestselling right-wing pundette running for president. And success meant striking exactly the right pout.
    By Dave Eggers April 29, 2004

  • New Hampshire Is for Lovers

    Teresa Santiago was ready to jump ship to another presidential candidate. But was she ready to commit political espionage?
    By Dave Eggers April 23, 2004

  • New Hampshire Is for Lovers

    Dick Benjamin wasn't just smart. He might have been the smartest presidential candidate -- ever! But how could he get the word out?
    By Dave Eggers April 21, 2004

  • New Hampshire Is for Lovers

    Glenn Close seemed nice enough. But the hundreds who gathered to see the prospective presidential candidate couldn't help wondering what, exactly, was she doing there?
    By Dave Eggers April 12, 2004
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