[Yale-readings] Eggers Reading

[Nancy Kuhl]

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>A reading by novelist Dave Eggers
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>with Valentino Achak Deng
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>Tuesday, February 27, 2007, 7 p.m.
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>Sudler Hall (Room 201, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall Street)
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>free and open to the public
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>sponsored by the John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer Fund and 
>Jonathan Edwards College
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>Dave Eggers, author, editor, and designer, is the author of the memoir A 
>Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000); the novel You Shall Know 
>Our Velocity (2002); the story collection How We Are Hungry (2004); and 
>the novel What is the What (2006), about Valentino Achak Deng. Eggers is 
>editor of the annual The Best American Nonrequired Reading series, and 
>co-editor of the Voice of Witness series of oral histories. 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 The Believer; a daily humor website, 
><https://www.mail.yale.edu/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcsweeneys.net%2F>www.mcsweeneys.net., 
>and Wholphin, 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.
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>Susan Bianconi
>Associate Editor
>The Yale Review
>P. O. Box 208243
>New Haven, CT 06520-8243
>203/432-0499
>203/432-0510, fax
>susan.bianconi at yale.edu

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