Dave Eggers

And then he's the one that can go spread the gospel.

No way.

This is essential.

I've worked on that.

I feel like we need this thread.

How did you come around?

You sit with it.

You walk with it.

You ride your bike around the coast for a day or two.

You're trying to, even before you respond, because you don't want to angrily say, no, you're wrong, whatever.

I knew at that point that she...

knew the book inside and out, knew what was best for it.

So I was like, geez, I really don't think she's right here.

But in my bones, I was like, she's probably right.

And so, you know, after a few days, I was like, all right, that's fine.

And help me do it.

What's weird about novels is that everything is threaded so many places that if you pull one, like, it takes a couple, three people to sort of make sure that everything else is intact when you pull some character out of the book.

So you'll sometimes read a book, a printed book that will have somebody's name on page 238 that doesn't exist.

And it's because they changed the name or they pulled that character.

But this vestigial name is still there.