Dave Eggers
speaker
2,398 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jul
Dave Eggers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because if you're going to pay us and subscribe to us, maybe we'll surprise you each time with what it looks like.
So we've done a lunchbox in the last few years.
Yeah, we got a lunchbox recently.
Yeah.
I can only think of a handful of actual lone wolves in the visual arts too.
It's a trope that isn't borne out that often in real life.
Bukowski is one of those guys, right?
And you have Van Gogh, whoever.
There's a handful, but the people that I've known or met, I don't know a lone wolf writer.
I can't think of one.
Well, or, you know, I tell this to students in MFA programs all the time.
I was like, there was two of us in a kitchen that started McSweeney's for $2,500.
That was the print bill for the first one.
You sell those 2,000 copies, you have enough money to print the next one and print 5,000 copies.
You sell those, you can certainly print 7,500, which was our trajectory.
It's such simple math.
I can't add anything together.
I cannot balance a checkbook, but I could do that simple math.
And so we just published everybody we wanted to publish.
So that built up this little community of people and you start something, the magnet, you know, you just, everybody's drawn to it, whether it's Upright Citizens Brigade or the Ground, you know, it's the same kind of thing.
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