Dave Eggers

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2,398 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 8 Jul

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Dave Eggers (writer and publisher) · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

And there's never been a better sentence writer in the English language, in my opinion.

But there was a big biography of him, I think in the 90s.

And the biographer just spent the entire time just green with envy about why he's not Saul Bell.

So the entire book.

was about, I went to Harvard, he only went to University of Chicago.

Why does he have a Nobel and I don't?

And this whole thing, everything is filtered through this twisted lens that he's looking through.

And so I know enough about any writer by reading their work.

And then if I peek behind the curtain and find out that they're left-handed or lactose intolerant or whatever, I'm like, it diminishes the fun.

Interesting.

And I'm like, I know plenty by reading their body of work and I don't need to know anything more.

And I think it's sort of like peeking behind any curtain or knowing how a magic trick is done.

Why?

You know, why?

And they're always trying to get people into their tribe.

I mean, there's a lot of people that I'm interested in that way, but not artists of any kind.

Yeah, I would put that very important distinction.

Yeah.

If they're telling you themselves, I always think you don't know anything about anyone until they tell you.

Any assumptions that you make otherwise are going to be false or misguided.

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