Dave Eggers at the NYS Writers Institute in 2004

An excerpt from an September 29, 2004 appearance by author and humorist Dave Eggars at the New York State Writers Institute (http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/).

Dave Eggers is the author of the memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000), which chronicles his experience at the age of 21, losing both his parents from cancer within a span of five weeks and become parent to his seven-year-old brother. The book quickly became a New York Times bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and was named Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and Time. You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002), Eggers' first novel, is the story of two young Americans who travel around the world handing out money to very poor people. His latest book is How We Are Hungry (August 2004), a collection of short stories. Eggers is also the editor of The Best American NonRequired Reading, 2002 and 2003, anthologies of offbeat magazine and webzine pieces, and the founding editor of the literary quarterly and publishing house McSweeney's.

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Comedy

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• Humorists