Dave Eggers
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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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And he's a cartoonist.
Yeah, he's won the Best Boy Award.
We figured this out.
He did a comic when he was a kid that they featured on the show and sort of fleshed out with everybody in costumes and stuff, all these ridiculous characters.
And I asked him if we could have a copy of it for this international library of young authors.
So we feature books written by well-known people, but when they were under 18, amidst all of our books by young authors.
And he gave us a copy of it.
And it's so ludicrous, but you've got to keep these things.
And that's why we publish so many young authors, because their minds are untethered.
There's no structure.
Characters will pop up and disappear.
No rules.
No rules.
And they're still really fun to read.
You've got to remember how unhinged narratives can and maybe should be because all of the rules and constraints and everything, it's applying sort of an accountant's brain to what should be an anarchic process.
But anyway, but yeah, he was a good cartoonist.
Well, that's why we publish kids.
We have kids that are like 14, and they've been published every year since they were six, and they stand 12 feet tall.
They're not like so grateful.
They really feel like it's the right thing to have happened.
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