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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Like you're either unworthy and cast down.
Or you're Jesus.
And it's like, no.
You're Hemingway.
One of like 10 drafts you're going to do.
We'll get there either way.
No, I've always preferred talking about anything but my life.
Oh, really?
Oh, yeah.
Even though you've written about it?
Did it 26 years ago.
No, it was just like, you know, you find this with a lot of memoirists or somebody that wrote it.
That was like, that was where I wrote it.
So that it's like, it's gone.
You tell it, it's truthful.
And this, again, what we teach for kids that have like chaotic lives in any way, or every kid feels that the world around them is not under their control necessarily.
They're not controlling every part of their experience, but on the page, it's all yours.
And you can write this linear narrative that makes sense and no one can mess with it.
And so once they write these stories out or mini memoirs or just a diary entry, there's like a calm that comes over the kids.
And especially if they've done it every year, those are the sort of most self-possessed, self-knowing kids you'll ever find are the ones that have been asked every year, write your story.
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