Dave Eggers interview on "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" (2000)

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[@RomanDobs]

I was just listening to the smartless podcast and their guest was Michael Lewis, towards the end of the show he spoke about the loss of his daughter Dixie and how Dave Eggers came over with food and refused to let me go through it alone, and it reminded me of his book 'A Heartbreaking work of Staggering Genius" and I realized that He is an author that walks the walk when it comes to lessons learned from loss and grief and that grief is the price we pay for love.

[@joesonza]

Same!

[@mikiallen7733]

Man full of heart before even writer with sharp intellect

[@samuraichilton]

i feel like the 0%of this book was written for someone like the interviewer.

[@laurenr.4858]

love how awkward this interview is.

[@7ru]

"Your parents died within five months of each other." "Uh, about five weeks, yeah." "Five weeks! I'm sorry, five weeks. Um." Oof

[@jessallen1856]

Can’t help but feel Charlie never actually read the book 😅

[@jonahjaye]

He wrote the title as a joke and thought it was hilarious so he kept it. He thought the book had a 50/50 chance to succeed and would be torn to shreds. He doesn't remember what he wrote and doesn't like go back and read it again. He has some weird body language where he scratches/covers his mouth whenever he receives praise. Welcome to postmodernism, where you can write what you personally think is crap, but instead everyone calls you a genius.

[@ombligodeagua]

I don't think he thinks it is crap.He is just humble about it

[@idklol4197]

mald

[@eastwoofer]

It is true genius, this thing, and has nothing to do with postmodernism. It’s called super intelligent humor.

[@Westray-l4y]

The 90s had a lot of thinly veiled autobiography as 'fiction.' Bring back real storytelling for good.

[@bluuum]

write about cancer dave!

[@theswissmiss69]

Is this some joke I don’t get?

[@movielove]

@@theswissmiss69 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is, in part, about cancer (his mom and I think also dad died do cancer, within months of one another)