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The Best Books For The Armchair Traveler

flavorwire.com | Posted 06.27.2011

Read More: The Travel Book, David Farley, Armchair Traveler, Zeitoun, National Geographic, Lonely Planet, An Irreverent Curiosity, Radio Shangri-La, Armchair Traveler Books, Planet Earth, Dave Eggers, Elizabeth Bard, Vagabonding, Lunch in Paris, Books News

Skiing in the Alps, laying back in roomy, first-class seats, shopping in Milan — it’s the life, isn’t it? Unfortunately, it’s not the life tha...

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L.A. Times Book Prizes: Dave Eggers Wins Big

Los Angeles Times | Carolyn Kellogg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Author Dave Eggers was the surprise big winner Friday night at the L.A. Times Book Prizes when he was awarded the current interest prize for his book ...

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The New Yorker's Best Books Of The Year

The New Yorker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reviewers' favorites from 2009....

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The 10 Best Books of 2009

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Daniyal Mueenuddin, East Bay Grease, Philip K. Dick, The Fire Gospel, Paul Starobin, Christopher Miller, Syrian Immigrants, Chloe Aridjis, Michael Faber, Home Boy, In Other Rooms Other Wonders, Dave Eggers, The Naked Eye, Azhar Abidi, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, Brownsville: Stories, Torsten Krol, A Good Fall: Stories, Cardboard Universe: A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank, Steve Hely, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, Melissa Kwasny, Zeitoun, Book of Clouds, Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk Museum of Innocence, Yoko Tawada, Kamila Shamsie, Oscar Casares, The Thing Around Your Neck, Joyce Carol Oates, Ha Jin, H. M. Naqvi, Chris Hedges, Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever, Carolyn Chute, A Free Life, Barbara Ehrenreich, Walter Kirn, Eric Miles Williamson, After America: Narratives for the Next Global Age, Ali Sethi, Franz Wright, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, Amigoland, Callisto, Books News
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Anis Shivani picks his top 10 books for 2009.

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

Wajahat Ali | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Dave Eggers' Zeitoun: New Book About Katrina

The Rumpus | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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UN: Probe Israeli shelling of Gaza building

AP | DIAA HADID | Posted 05.25.2011

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JERUSALEM — With fighting all around them, Israeli troops knocked on the door of the Samouni clan in Gaza City last weekend and told them to lea...

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