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Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida

Click the Play button (triangle) to listen to the Dave Eggers Introduction and Reading.

Click the Play button (triangle) to listen to the Vendela Vida Introduction and Reading.

Click the Play button (triangle) to listen to the Dave Eggers and Vendela in Conversation with Michael Silverblatt.

Dave Eggers is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, of which the Washington Post said, “Eggers evokes the terrible beauty of youth like a young Bob Dylan, frothing with furious anger.” He is also the author of You Shall Know Our Velocity!, and How We Are Hungry. In 1998, he founded McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house now located in San Francisco.
Dave Eggers Bio and Cross Links

Vendela Vida is the author of Girls on the Verge, a journalistic study of female initiation rituals. She is also the author of a novel, And Now You Can Go, which begins with its narrator, 21 year old Ellis, being forced at gunpoint to sit and talk with a man in a New York City park as he contemplates a murder/suicide. She is the coeditor of the Believer magazine and the editor of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers.
Vendela Vida’s Bio and Cross Links

Michael Silverblatt is the host of the literary talk show Bookworm, which he created in 1989 for KCRW 89.9 FM in Santa Monica. He has participated in numerous Readings & Conversations programs, interviewing Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie, and A.S. Byatt, among others. Bookworm airs locally on KSFR 101.1FM every Sunday at 1:30pm.

Michael Silverblatt Bio and Cross Links