{"id":10,"date":"2004-11-01T22:31:31","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T06:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gen-o.com\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2004-11-02T13:36:34","modified_gmt":"2004-11-02T21:36:34","slug":"new-dave-eggers-collection-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/01\/new-dave-eggers-collection-out\/","title":{"rendered":"New Dave Eggers collection out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Eggers has a new collection of short stories out titled <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com:80\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1932416137\/thelitteinlit-20?creative=327641&#038;camp=14573&#038;link_code=as1\">How We Are Hungry<\/a><\/em>. I picked up signed copy at ACWLP in San Francisco last week, and am just starting to read through it. I recognized some of the stories from their previous incarnations in The New Yorker, Zoetrope, and the Nick Hornby-edited collection <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com:80\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1573228583\/thelitteinlit-20?creative=327641&#038;camp=14573&#038;link_code=as1\">Speaking With the Angel<\/a><\/em>. John Freeman praised Eggers&#8217; book in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/chronicle\/a\/2004\/10\/31\/RVGON9CURQ1.DTL\">The San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> on Sunday. Here is a brief excerpt from his review: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like Lorrie Moore in &#8220;Birds of America,&#8221; Eggers understands how movement from one place to the next can put us off balance and make us kiss the Blarney Stone out of our own neediness. In &#8220;The Only Meaning of Oil-Wet Water,&#8221; a woman flies down to Costa Rica to figure out whether her friend Hand (who reappears from &#8220;Velocity&#8221;) is a lover or merely a friend. It&#8217;s a heartbreaking little story because &#8212; if you&#8217;re the kind of person who takes time seriously &#8212; it reminds you how many near misses you have when searching for the One. What do you do with all those moments so indelibly remembered?<\/p>\n<p>And here is where Eggers takes his writing to a whole new level. In &#8220;A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,&#8221; Eggers&#8217; grief over his parents&#8217; deaths was fried in a vat of irony; in contrast, these stories are raw, unfiltered but have the same quivering texture of lived experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Eggers has a new collection of short stories out titled How We Are Hungry. I picked up signed copy at ACWLP in San Francisco last week, and am just starting to read through it. I recognized some of the stories from their previous incarnations in The New Yorker, Zoetrope, and the Nick Hornby-edited collection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}