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<div align="center"><b>A reading by novelist Dave Eggers<br><br>
</b>with Valentino Achak Deng<br><br>
<b>Tuesday, February 27, 2007, 7 p.m.<br><br>
Sudler Hall (Room 201, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall
Street)<br><br>
</b>free and open to the public<br><br>
sponsored by the John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer Fund and
Jonathan Edwards College<br><br>
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Dave Eggers, author, editor, and designer, is the author of the memoir
A<i> Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius </i>(2000); the novel <i>You
Shall Know Our Velocity</i> (2002); the story collection <i>How We Are
Hungry</i> (2004); and the novel <i>What is the What</i> (2006), about
Valentino Achak Deng. Eggers is editor of the annual <i>The Best American
Nonrequired Reading </i>series, and co-editor of the Voice of Witness
series of oral histories<i>.</i> In 1998, he founded McSweeney's, an
independent book publishing house in San Francisco which puts out the
McSweeney’s quarterly literary journal, the monthly magazine <i>The
Believer</i>; a daily humor website,
<a href="https://www.mail.yale.edu/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcsweeneys.net%2F">
www.mcsweeneys.net</a>., and <i>Wholphin</i>, a quarterly DVD collection
of short films. In 2002, he opened 826 Valencia, a writing lab for young
people located in the Mission District of San Francisco; there are now
branches of 826 in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago and Michigan.
<br><br>
Susan Bianconi<br>
Associate Editor<br>
The Yale Review<br>
P. O. Box 208243<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8243<br>
203/432-0499 <br>
203/432-0510, fax<br>
susan.bianconi@yale.edu </blockquote>
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