Dave Eggers

But I think for your descendants, for your family, for your own good, everybody should get it down, even if it's 10 pages, you know?

Like, just put something down and get it right, or in what you consider to be right.

Well, McSweeney's, I was... I came up in the indie magazine world, and that's where I would get...

all the free CDs, which was one of the points of having a magazine is you get everything sent to you for free.

Every album that ever came out came through us and we reviewed some of them and kept the rest and then I still have them all.

Then we all went broke doing that.

That was a magazine called Mite, never made a dime.

M-I-T-E?

M-I-G-H-T, like the Rolling Stone of Gen X. That was our hope.

didn't happen we went broke but we all got jobs for the first time in our lives in our late 20s we all were offered real jobs at real magazines and i took one in new york and very corporate had to wear certain clothes had to be there certain hours all these things i'd never done before and i realized i was not meant to

live this way nine to five.

So I quit and we started kind of the anti-corporate magazine, which was just me and a few friends in my Brooklyn apartment.

And we just did this little magazine that we printed in Iceland.

I found a printer in Reykjavik and I thought, oh, you're kidding me.

I thought it was a joke, but there was a real, really a printer in Reykjavik.

I thought that would be perfect for this because it was kind of an outsider's magazine.

And then from then, you know, now we're on 27 years that we've been doing it.

Unbelievable.

And I thought it would be four issues.

And then new people come on, they have new ideas.