Dave Eggers

People Talk, Sing for Space Supply Store/Writing Center

Strange fruit

"It does not seem fair that he should have to explain himself," broods our love-struck protagonist.

Lit Clique

The five women behind Seattle Arts & Lectures are smart, young, and in love with Ira Glass.

State by State

The five women behind Seattle Arts & Lectures are smart, young, and in love with Ira Glass.

Supernova

The five women behind Seattle Arts & Lectures are smart, young, and in love with Ira Glass.

Class Clown

The newest in the "best" shorts competition falls short.

People Talking and Singing

Local lit center has star-studded help

Books Calendar

Local lit center has star-studded help

Who's Cuter: Eggers or Krasinski?

You can decide whether literary hunk Dave Eggers or TV hunk John Krasinski is hotter at a special benefit screening of Away We Go on May 9. Northwest Film Forum is presenting the film; proceeds go to local writing-tutoring center 826 Seattle, part of the national organization founded by Eggers in th ... More >>

Ask an Uptight Seattleite

My coworker wants to listen to Warm 106.9.

Notable Shows

Highlights-and otherwise-from this week's music calendar.

Conservatize Me

In which the KUOW host tries to find his red-state inner self.

Mr. 826

He's famous. He's deservedly acclaimed. And McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers has monkeys to punch—all for a good cause, of course.

Interview With the Word Eater

The Dave Eggers 826 benefit show promises a staged literary feud.

Page and Stage

A Bumbershoot literacy education fund-raiser will surely appeal to McSweeney's readers. But could we find a few more kids for them to teach, please?

William Powhida

A Bumbershoot literacy education fund-raiser will surely appeal to McSweeney's readers. But could we find a few more kids for them to teach, please?

Brian Barr Joins Seattle Weekly

An experienced critic, he replaces Michaelangelo Matos as music editor.

A Stargazer Is Born

Give the gift of the heavens for the holidays.

This Week's Reads

David Rakoff and Benjamin Kunkel.

Bumbershoot Index

David Rakoff and Benjamin Kunkel.

Her Brand of Humor

Local lit mag brings funny women to Bumbershoot stage. No, really.

Cool and Collected

Concealing his ambitions, Dave Eggers treads water better than most can swim.

Choice Cuts

Dave Eggers makes your bus ride that much easier to bear.

Vollmann in One Volume

Just in time for Fallujah, the famously brave, verbose writer has condensed his epic rumination on violence—although hearing him explain it may still be preferable to actually reading it.

Arts Picks

Jumpers, David Banner, The Shining, Howard Dean, and Dave Eggers

Talent Required

Two young, unknown Seattle writers pop up in the Eggers pantheon.

This Week's Reads

Rachel Greenwald, David Quammen, Pete Dexter, and Zoe Trope.

This Week's Reads

Vendela Vida, Larry Watson, Glenn Gaslin, Brendan Halpin, and Robert Macfarlane.

This Week's Reads

Bharti Kirchner, Douglas Coupland, Rupert Isaacson & Tanya Shaffer, Anthony Doerr, and Ann Cummins.

This Week's Reads

Jonathan Wilson, Heidi Julavits, and John Haskell.

High Fidelity

Nick Hornby's 31 favorite songs.

The Best American Edited-Out Writing 2002

Nick Hornby's 31 favorite songs.

Dave Redux

Nick Hornby's 31 favorite songs.

War as Cartoon

Was Desert Storm ironic?

Book picks

Was Desert Storm ironic?

Summer music

Was Desert Storm ironic?

Let them eat cake

Smarty-pants draws stapler.

Strange fruit

"It does not seem fair that he should have to explain himself," broods our love-struck protagonist.

Cackling in Tongues

In a new humor anthology, the wordplay's the thing.

Spring Books Quarterly

In a new humor anthology, the wordplay's the thing.

A Cautiously Enthusiastic Book Review

First book by the editor of McSweeney's touching, gimmicky.

Your Weekend Arts & Chowder Guide

Richard Nixon lives! The disgraced former president (actually portrayed by Stacy Keach) begins a weekend packed with tugboat racing, excellent photography, classical music, and more. First, here's Margaret Friedman on Frost/Nixon: British playwright Peter Morgan does what he must to magnify the ent ... More >>

Away We Go: Dave Eggers’ Movie Not a Work of Staggering Genius

Richard Nixon lives! The disgraced former president (actually portrayed by Stacy Keach) begins a weekend packed with tugboat racing, excellent photography, classical music, and more. First, here's Margaret Friedman on Frost/Nixon: British playwright Peter Morgan does what he must to magnify the ent ... More >>

September DVD Roundup

​The month is over, and let's survey a few notable titles (or casualties?) from the past 30 days. First: Alec Baldwin is stuck in the '70s? Or is it the '80s? Lymelife makes it hard to tell. Baldwin plays the puffy, obverse version to his cutthroat salesman in Glengarry Glen Ross--a spec housi ... More >>

Where the Wild Things Are: Not Terrible, But in Need of Some Terror

​The month is over, and let's survey a few notable titles (or casualties?) from the past 30 days. First: Alec Baldwin is stuck in the '70s? Or is it the '80s? Lymelife makes it hard to tell. Baldwin plays the puffy, obverse version to his cutthroat salesman in Glengarry Glen Ross--a spec housi ... More >>

You Know Your Friend's a Hipster ...

​... when his only copy of Where the Wild Things Are is in French. (But thanks for letting me crash last night, guys!) The movie/Dave Eggers/Spike Jonze version is now in theaters.

Mt St Helens Vietnam Band

​... when his only copy of Where the Wild Things Are is in French. (But thanks for letting me crash last night, guys!) The movie/Dave Eggers/Spike Jonze version is now in theaters.

Swashbuckling Summer Guide 2010

An eye-patched guide to hot, rum-fueled carousing.

Neko Case's Sextastic Middle Cyclone Hot Rod, Angie Dickinson, Could Be Yours

Buy me!​Do you want this car? Of course you do. The above image is, of course, the cover of Neko Case's Middle Cyclone, and the car is a 1967 Mercury Cougar, made eternally even more bad-ass by the fact that a babe with a sword is crouching on it. The car is also a babe; her name is Angie Dick ... More >>

Neko Case's Sextastic Middle Cyclone Hot Rod, Angie Dickinson, Could Be Yours

Buy me!​Do you want this car? Of course you do. The above image is, of course, the cover of Neko Case's Middle Cyclone, and the car is a 1967 Mercury Cougar, made eternally even more badass by the babe with a sword crouching on it. The car is also a babe; her name is Angie Dickinson, and she c ... More >>