About Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers, author of the phenomenal bestseller A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and editor of McSweeney's, is inaugural guest editor. He is the founder of 826 Valencia, a San Francisco writing lab for city youth.
Novels
You Shall Know Our Velocity: Or, Sacrament (2002)
What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006)
The Wild Things (2009)
What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (2006)
The Wild Things (2009)
Collections
How We Are Hungry (2004)
The Small Box of Short Stories (2007) (with Sarah Manguso and Deb Olin Unferth)
The Small Box of Short Stories (2007) (with Sarah Manguso and Deb Olin Unferth)
Plays
Anthologies edited
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 (2002)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 (2003)
The Burned Children of America (2003) (with Zadie Smith)
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales: Comics Issue (2004) (with Chris Ware)
Best of McSweeney's Volume 1 (2004)
Created in Darkness By Troubled Americans: The Best of Mcsweeney's, Humor Category: 1998-2003 (2004)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004 (2004)
Best of McSweeney's Volume 2 (2005)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 (2006)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 (2007)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 (2009)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010 (2010)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 (2011)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 (2003)
The Burned Children of America (2003) (with Zadie Smith)
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales: Comics Issue (2004) (with Chris Ware)
Best of McSweeney's Volume 1 (2004)
Created in Darkness By Troubled Americans: The Best of Mcsweeney's, Humor Category: 1998-2003 (2004)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004 (2004)
Best of McSweeney's Volume 2 (2005)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 (2006)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 (2007)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 (2009)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010 (2010)
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 (2011)
Non fiction
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based On a True Story (1999)
Zeitoun (2009)
America: Now and Here (2010) (with Eric Fischl)
It Is Right to Draw Their Fur (2010)
David Shrigley: Brain Activity (2012)
Zeitoun (2009)
America: Now and Here (2010) (with Eric Fischl)
It Is Right to Draw Their Fur (2010)
David Shrigley: Brain Activity (2012)
Dave Eggers recommends
 Sam the Cat: And Other Stories (2000) Matthew Klam "His stories... pierce and leap, are always bitingly funny, and are so, so alive... Klam is telling the truth while almost no one else is." |  Red Ant House (2001) Ann Cummins "I devour anything Ann Cummins does, she's as good as we have." |  Dear Mr. President (2002) Gabe Hudson "Beyond their great narrative propulsion and their astonishing but always balanced surreality and humor, Gabe Hudson's stories have a crucial and rare thing: soul. He's an important writer." |
 Lost Joy (2002) Camden Joy "I know of no one who writes with more passion and more soul." |  Things You Should Know (2003) A M Homes "Insanely good... huge meaty stories." |  The Seas (2004) Samantha Hunt "One of the most distinctive and unforgettable voices I have read in years. This book will linger . . . in your head for a good long time." |
 The Coast of Akron (2005) Adrienne Miller "One of the wittiest and most humane writers we have." |  Don't I Know You? (2006) Karen Shepard "Riveting and deeply felt and true." |  No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007) Miranda July "Incredibly charming, beautifully written, frequently laugh-out-loud funny." |
 Travel Writing (2008) Peter Ferry "Totally captivating and page-turning on one level, completely soulful and honest on another level, beautifully written." |  Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction (2009) Kurt Vonnegut Jr "Relentlessly fun to read." |  What He's Poised to Do (2010) Ben Greenman "One of the most versatile, consistently surprising writers at work today." |
 Memory Wall (2010) Anthony Doerr "Doerr has set a new standard for what a story can do." |  Luminarium (2011) Alex Shakar "Luminarium is dizzyingly smart and provocative, exploring as it does the state of the present, of technology, of what is real and what is ephemeral. But the thing that separates Luminarium from other books that discuss avatars, virtual reality and the like is that Alex Shakar is committed throughout with trying, relentlessly, to flat-out explain the meaning of life. This book is funny, and soulful, and very sad, but so intellectually invigorating that you'll want to read it twice." |  Jack Holmes and His Friend (2012) Edmund White "Edmund White is one of the three or four most virtuosic living writers of sentences in the English language." |
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