Dave Eggers

It means you have work to do, maybe.

Well, I think it depends on how many sort of themes can fit into that vessel, you know?

I'm writing a short story about hang gliders and Kitty Hawk right now, which is something I researched.

I didn't know what I was going to do with this research, but I know it's a short story because there's only so much about it that I'm interested in and

But for a novel, I mean, let's say, pull a number out of that air and say maybe there's like five major themes in a short story, like a novel you're talking about, 25.

You know, there's a scale and a scope of it, for me at least.

But then you do have that blurry line between short stories, novellas, short novels, like

But at this point, I'm working on a series of books that are called The Forgetters.

They're like short stories, but they're part of a much larger thing, like thousands of pages eventually that all get all in place and nobody will read it.

But for me,

i know the mosaic i can see it and they work as individual pieces yeah you don't have to know anything about the rest of it to make it work is that the case in the new book when you're writing in sections yeah do each of those sections stand alone and work i think so that was the hope the hope was that obviously you get to know them when they're eight and nine and so you when you are reading about them when they're 50 or all of that history is part of your

your understanding of them, but if you were to pick up and start on page 300 and when they're however old, I think it would make perfect sense.

You don't have the benefit of all of that sort of like that shared history, but...

I do really like that, the jumping ahead.

So it's like 10 years, you have to fill in the gaps and where would they have been in between?

But that's the pleasure of being participant in it as a reader.

I can't tell you exactly where they were and it doesn't matter to me, but like you can sort of fill in those gaps.

And we all know that

We do so many drastic things, most of us, I think, in our lives.

Like, more and more I meet older people.