Dave Eggers

2 months ago | hbook.com | Amanda Uhle |Dave Eggers |Lisa Yoskowitz |Alexandra Hightower

WinnerThe First State of Being by Erin Entrada KellyIntermediate, Middle School    Greenwillow    272 pp. 3/24    9780063337312    $19.99e-book ed. 9780063337336    $9.99It’s the summer of 1999. Twelve-year-old Delawarean Michael has worries, chief among them the approach of Y2K. What if everything falls apart? Family finances are precarious, so he’s amassing a stash of groceries acquired through shoplifting. Then he meets an odd new kid.

Nov 12, 2024 | lesen.de | Dave Eggers |George Orwell |Cormac McCarthy |Haruki Murakami

When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency.

Sep 21, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Dave Eggers

The scope of the federal government is vast, and in one corner lies NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, where the search for new planets and new life continues. As part of the Post Opinions “Who is government?” series, author Dave Eggers takes a look at the lab’s latest innovations and gets to know the people who are reaching for the stars. In this special episode, Michael Lewis talks to Eggers about what he learned.

Sep 17, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Dave Eggers

Sorry, a summary is not available for this article at this time. Please try again later. In all likelihood, in the next 25 years, we’ll find evidence of life on another planet. I’m willing to say this because I’m not a scientist and I don’t work in media relations for NASA. But all evidence points to us getting closer, every year, to identifying moons in our solar system, or exoplanets beyond it, that can sustain life.

Aug 16, 2024 | nytimes.com | Dave Eggers

When I was 8 years old, I was given a book called "Giants." Published in 1976, it was an art book filled with spectacular drawings and paintings of giants throughout literature and mythology. Three artists were credited - Julek Heller, Carolyn Scrace and Juan Wijngaard - and the accompanying text, by Sarah Teale, was pseudoscientific, treating the existence of giants as fact and the analysis of their culture and customs as a legitimate branch of anthropology.