Dave Eggers' first splash in publishing was a big one: the audaciously titled A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Published in 2000, the book caught the attention of the media, and soon critica...
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An author who has nurtured young writers and a doctor who has pushed nations to share disease information in hopes of combating illness are among six people named Heinz Award winners on Wednesday.T...
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Dave Eggers in the flesh? The literary pied piper appears at the 92nd Street Y with 30-year-old Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sudanese refugee Valentino Achak Deng (phew!)—the ...
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Matt Haber, who has a mind like a thousand flypapers tangled in a black hole, did us the service of finding the old New Yorker tale of Dave Eggers' loss of a benefit's wor...
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Lethem? I just met him! Much has been written about the fact that Brooklyn has more writers per square block than any other place in America (though not more than County Donegal in Ireland; all nam...
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An author who has nurtured young writers and a doctor who has pushed nations to share disease information in hopes of combating illness are among six people named Heinz Award winners on Wednesday.T...
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The big dogs of publishing might have Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club, but the little ones have indie rock. Unclear when the flirtation became a marriage, but the benefit concert held Sunday night ...
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With more than 12 million books sold last year alone, author James Patterson doesn't need to worry about getting the public to read him. But he does worry that people aren't reading enough.Patterso...
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Novelists Cormac McCarthy, Richard Ford and Dave Eggers were among the finalists Thursday night for the 33rd annual National Book Critics Circle prize.McCarthy's "The Road," Ford's "The Lay of the ...
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Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss," a narrative of global discovery and displacement that has already won the Man Booker Prize, received another literary honor Thursday night: the National Boo...
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A woman who used the alter ego of a nonexistent male prostitute to pen an autobiographical novel defrauded a production company that wanted to make a film about her life, a jury decided Friday.The ...
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Dave Eggers
Author Dave Eggers, WHO doctor among Heinz Award winners
