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No Time to Read? Go Short

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Short Stories, Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, Kurt Vonnegut, Reading, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Dave Eggers, Leo Tolstoy, Book Groups, Book a Day, Paul Auster, Annie Proulx, Reading All Day, Books, Christmas Carol, Kazuo Ishiguro, Books News
Nina Sankovitch

There is a solution to the time crunch: the beauty and brevity of a short story. For those with circumscribed time, short stories deliver, and deliver big time.

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Hipsters Ironically Boycott Where The Wild Things Are

The Hollywood Ham | Posted 10.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Karen O, Where the Wild Things Are Trailer, Dave Eggers, Where the Wild Things Are, Urban Outfitters, Couples Retreat, The Believer, Spike Jonze, Comedy News
The Hollywood Ham

Those Hipsters who did go to the movies this weekend built on the ironic support for Where The Wild Things Are by seeing Couples Retreat.

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Wild Things: The Book of the Film of the Book

Amy Hungerford | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: New Books, Dave Eggers, McSweeney's, Wild Things, Where the Wild Things Are, Books, Books News
Amy Hungerford

Storytelling -- in words, pictures, film -- is a flexible art in which compelling stories produce unlimited creative responses that can enchant us, can move or madden us.

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Wild Things Is Where the Entertainment Isn't

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Single Mother, Wild Things, Children's Book, Fantasy, Maurice Sendak, Spike Jonze, Movie Review, Where the Wild Things Are, Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Dave Eggers, Catherine O'hara, Chris Cooper, Entertainment News
Jackie K. Cooper

Where the Wild Things Are sounds like a fun film for the kids and an emotional one for adults, but it isn't. The film is much too scary for younger children and much too boring for older ones.

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National Book Awards: What Do You Think? (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Publishing, Lorrie Moore, Books, Fiction, Slidepoll, Biographies, Dave Eggers, National Book Award Nominees, National Book Awards, Publishing, Darwin, University Presses, Book Awards, National Book Foundation, Vanderbilt, National Book Award, Bookslut, Gore Vidal, Non-Fiction, Booker Prize, Literary Prizes, Books News

The National Book Foundation rolled out the nominations for the 2009 National Book Award on Wednesday, and the winners will be announced November 18. ...

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Movie Review: Where the Wild Things Are

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: James Gandolfini, Where the Wild Things Are Movie Review, Dave Eggers, Maurice Sendak, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Catherine Keener, Spike Jonze, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

I don't want to know how Spike Jonze made Where the Wild Things Are. I'd rather simply simmer in the joy of having watched it unfold before my eyes.

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Where The Wild Things Are Creators On Disney And Fear (INTERVIEW)

Newsweek | Ramin Setoodeh and Andrew Romano | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Where the Wild Things Are, Dave Eggers, Books, Wild Things, Maurice Sendak, Interview, Spike Jonze, Books News

To discuss the dark, unorthodox adaptation, Sendak invited us over, along with Jonze and novelist-screenwriter Dave Eggers (who participated via speak...

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Gore Vidal, Dave Eggers To Receive Honorary Awards

AP | Posted 11.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Gore Vidal, Dave Eggers, National Book Awards, Literary Prizes, Media News

NEW YORK — Congratulations, Gore Vidal. The author, playwright and political commentator will receive an honorary National Book Award medal thi...

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A Muslim American Hero: A Conversation With Dave Eggers on Zeitoun

Wajahat Ali | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Dave Eggers Interview, Katrina, Dave Eggers, Zeitoun, Dave Eggers Zeitoun, Bush Administration, Fema, War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, Taliban, Racial Profiling, Al Qaeda, Media News
Wajahat Ali

The Syrian American protagonist of Dave Eggers' new book -- despite his heroic efforts in post-Katrina New Orleans -- is arrested and brutally detained for weeks in a hellish, makeshift prison.

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Please, Dear Novelists - Get Real

Johann Hari | Posted 08.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Fiction, Novels, Tom Wolfe, Dave Eggers, Aravind Adiga, Slumdog Millionaire, Journalism, New Journalism, Between the Assassinations, Booker Prize, Media News
Johann Hari

The Slumdog Kill-ionaire is back, and he is reminding us how exhilarating fiction can be when novelists finally leave their seminar rooms and dive into the real world.

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Lovin' Her: Oscar, Thy Name Be Maya Rudolph

David Wild | Posted 07.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: John Krasinski, Vendela Vida, Maya Rudolph, The Office, Dave Eggers, Oscars, Saturday Night Live, Minnie Riperton, Sam Mendes, Away We Go, Steve Wonder, Richard Rudolph, New York, Entertainment News
David Wild

Let the Academy be officially forewarned: if Maya Rudolph doesn't get an Oscar nomination, then I'm not watching the show.

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Dave Eggers' Zeitoun: New Book About Katrina

The Rumpus | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Eggers Interview, Rumpus Eggers, Zeitoun, Dave Eggers, Rumpus Dave Eggers, Eggers Interviewed, The Rumpus, Rumpus Interview Eggers, Media News

Dave Eggers has a new nonfiction book, Zeitoun, coming out in a few weeks, fast on the heels of Away We Go, a movie he co-wrote with his wife, Vendela...

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An Interview with Maya Rudolph

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 07.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Dave Eggers, Away We Go, Entertainment, Film, Sam Mendes, Entertainment News
Melissa Silverstein

When in LA for the Away We Go junket, I was able to interview Maya Rudolph about the film, SNL and a couple of other things

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Ted@State: A Trip To The Nation's Capitol

Adriana Dunn | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elizabeth Bagley, Jacqueline Novogratz, TED Talks, Stewart Brand, Blaise Aguera Y Arcas, Paul Collier, Elizabeth Gilbert, Dave Eggers, Chris Anderson, Jeff Skoll, Hans Rosling, Clay Shirky, TED@State, Government Reform, Politics News
Adriana Dunn

The U.S. political system is no longer inaccessible and shrouded in secrecy. The prime example of this new attitude was yesterday's TED@State talk.

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HuffPost Review: Away We Go

Marshall Fine | Posted 07.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dave Eggers, John Kraskinski, Sam Mendes, Away We Go, Huffpost Review, Away We Go Review, Maya Rudolph, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

This low-key, sometimes melancholy comedy is a road movie with a twist. While this couple does have a series of misadventures, there's never a moment when they lose each other.

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Novelists in Hollywood: Away We Go

Jed P. Cohen | Posted 07.03.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Maya Rudolph, John Krasinski, Dave Eggers, Away We Go, McSweeney's, Sam Mendes, The Believer, Entertainment News
Jed P. Cohen

What makes Away We Go important is that it got made at all. It is a heartening prospect that as the country reads less and goes to the movies more, the movies continue to read.

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