by Dave Eggers

In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2007

by Dave Eggers

A respected magazine editor/founder and onetime spokesman for Generation X offers a satiric, eloquent, and thoroughly tradition-shattering memoir that discusses the deaths of his parents from cancer, his raising of...Read More

Publication Date: Feb 2001

by Dave Eggers

From 'Q & A' by Dave Eggers A group of senators and assemblypersons were pressing The Best American Nonrequired Reading on a number of questions relating to the collection, so...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2007

by Dave Eggers

This 'great volume' highlights the 'very best of this year's fiction, nonfiction, alternative comics, screenplys, blogs and more' ('OK ).' Compiled by Dave Eggers and students from his San Francisco...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2009

by Dave (EDT)/ Shay, Kevin J. (EDT) Eggers

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Publication Date: Aug 2004

by Dave Eggers

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, the very best pieces...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2003

by Dave Eggers

Now more than ever, Americans are troubled by questions. As sweaty modernity thrusts itself upon us, the veil of ignorance that cloaked our nation hangs in tatters, tattered tatters. Our...Read More

Publication Date: Jun 2005

by Dave Eggers

The eclectic new volume in the annual series presents the finest literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals, including fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, TV writing, and alternative comics by Judy Bud...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2006

by Dave Eggers

McSweeney's began in 1998 as a literary journal, edited by Dave Eggers, that published only works rejected from other magazines. But after the first issue, the journal began to publish...Read More

Publication Date: Nov 2005

by Dave Eggers

Issue 14 features a return of the hard-hitting journalism that has made McSweeney's our nation's preeminent source of Whys and Wherefores: Joshuah Bearman leads a daring investigation into the enigmatic...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2004

by Larry Dark

Established early in the last century as a memorial to the great American short story master O. Henry, throughout its history this annual collection has consistently offered a remarkable sampling...Read More

Publication Date: Aug 2002

by Donald Barthelme

William H. Gass has written of Donald Barthelme that "he has permanently enlarged our perception of the possibilities open to short fiction." In Forty Stories, the companion volume to Sixty...Read More

Publication Date: Feb 2005

by Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and You Shall Know Our Velocity, presents his first collection of short stories. The characters are roaming, searching, and often...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2004

by Dave Eggers

This collection of 15 of Dave Eggers's stories includes some that have been highly acclaimed and several that have never been published before. 'Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance'...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 2004

by Dave/ Blanco, Victoria Alonso (T Eggers

Publication Date: Jan 2009

by Dave Eggers

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do...Read More

Publication Date: Jun 2012

by Dave Eggers

Inside this 275-cubic-inch full-color head-crate, there are all the things you'd hope for: a 100-page annotated fragment of Michael Chabon's lost novel, incredible new stories from John Brandon and Colm...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 2011

by Dave Eggers

When their friend Jack is killed in a bizarre accident, Will and Hand--lifelong friends, both 20-somethings, both from Milwaukee--go off on a trip that takes them to Senegal, Morocco, and...Read More

Publication Date: Jul 2003

by Dave Eggers

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Publication Date: Mar 2004

by Dave Eggers

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Publication Date: Sep 2008

by Dave Eggers

The Wild Things— based very loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritten with Spike Jonze — is about the confusions of a boy, Max, making his...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2009

by Kurt Vonnegut

NATIONAL BESTSELLERForeward by Dave EggersThese previously unpublished, beautifully rendered works of fiction are a testament to Kurt Vonnegut’s unique blend of observation and imagination. Here are stories of men and....Read More

Publication Date: Jan 2012

by Mark Twain

In 'A Tramp Abroad,' Mark Twain's unofficial sequel to 'The Innocents Abroad,' the author records his hilarious and diverse observations and insights while on a fifteen-month walking trip through Central...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2003

by Saul/ Eggers, Dave (INT) Bellow

Publication Date: Aug 2010

by Dave (EDT) Eggers

Issue 11 will feature contributions from many of your favorite McSweeney's contributors, as well as a chorus of new voices. This issue returns to the classic McSweeney's format last seen...Read More

Publication Date: Jul 2003

by Dave Eggers

Because it seemed important to know in advance, we've dedicated Issue 32 to an investigation of the world to come--expect a set of near-future stories, written by the likes of...Read More

Publication Date: Aug 2009

by Dave Eggers

Featuring new work by Wells Tower, Michael Cera, and Etgar Keret, along with as always a bevy of lesser-known but nonetheless excellent writers investigating everything from mental hospitals to sentient...Read More

Publication Date: Mar 2009

by Dave Eggers

Barthelme said that "The Novel of the Soil is dead, as are Expressionism, Impressionism, Futurism, Imagism, Vorticism, Regionalism, Realism, the Kitchen Sink School of Drama, the Theatre of the Absurd,...Read More

Publication Date: Jun 2009

by Dave Eggers

With our biggest line-up in quite a while – fifteen stories from writers like Yannick Murphy, Roddy Doyle, Ben Greenman, and Peter Orner – McSweeney's 29 offers everything a good...Read More

Publication Date: Dec 2008

by Dave Eggers

If issues were anniversaries, this one would have to be printed on silver plates. You could melt it in some sort of forge and then pound it on an anvil...Read More

Publication Date: Feb 2008