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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I'm trying to make it a little bit more fun.
And then there are books that just come out a lot easier than others.
Now, The Eyes and the Impossible was a couple of years ago.
That was like the most fun I'd ever had.
And I was like, how do I stay in that zone where it's fun?
And a lot of it has to do with voice and it has to do with writing about something that you love.
And so Contra Costa was like, I love talking about and thinking about the art world and these characters.
And so I was like, okay, that
Book two was just pretty much joy all the way through.
But as a journalist, that's not as fun because you feel the duty to cover Trump or to cover a disaster or go to Ukraine or whatever, and then you have to write it out and you have to get every last word right and check every fact over and over.
It's a slog that you are happy to have done at the end, and you feel like maybe you enlightened a person or awakened somebody, but it's really no fun in any point of the process.
The main thing, I mean, I'm looking at McSweeney's stuff because McSweeney's was brand new too.
And so we were able to kind of take that new readership and sort of channel a lot of them.
And so we went on the road because I was finding all of these show runs.
We went on the road with They Might Be Giants.
And it was like me, writers like Arthur Bradford, Zadie Smith, some others.
And we would do a variety show.
And there'd be, you know, sometimes have like exotic dancers doing stuff and then there'd be the band and then Arthur would smash a guitar on the stage.
He did this whole act.
It was like to try to enliven what at that point was the most boring thing you'd ever could imagine, which was going to a bookstore to see a reading.
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