Dave Eggers

That was what I loved to do and get to see free shows.

And I did it all through college and got to see all these bands in small venues when they were coming up.

But these days,

Most of my favorite magazines, they don't exist or they're shadows of, I mean, there's a handful that are holding tight, but I will say like we do have in our workshops, we have zine making classes now.

So we have a whole section where it's like staples, glue, paper, every week, every Friday, there's a zine making class.

Dozens of kids, all ages, zines are sort of completely having a rebirth among these kids that have too much digital stuff.

They don't want to do blogs.

They don't want to, I mean, some of them, I guess, do TikToks, but like if you offer a zine class, it's so exotic to them that I think that these things sort of like vinyl have a chance of coming back, especially if you just make space for it.

Give them the paper, give them the staplers, have a copier, and you won't be disappointed.

Do you have any rituals before you write?

So I wake up, I read for about an hour and a half with coffee.

What do you read?

Almost always books by dead people.

It's just more calming for me, an old book.

And usually something really off-topic, like The History of Shipwrecks on the Pacific Coast.

That's my favorite recent book.

And then after that, if I feel really ready, then I go...

down to the boat and put on, there's an album by Sinead O'Connor that's like Irish standards.

That's my first record always.

I have to listen to the whole thing and write and journal or whatever, procrastinate.