Skylight Books is Proud to Present Dave Eggers
Skylight Bookstore – Los Feliz, CA
8/19/09
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The young critically acclaimed author will be at Skylight Bookstore for a reading and signing of his new nonfiction book, Zeitoun, about the trials of one man, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, during and after Hurricane Katrina. The founder of groundbreaking publishing house, McSweeney’s and novelist will be reading at Skylight for the very first time!

Here’s an excerpt from the glowing review by Timothy Egan in The New York Times:

“In Zeitoun, what Dave Eggers has found in the Katrina mud is the full-fleshed story of a single family, and in telling that story he hits larger targets with more punch than those who have already attacked the thematic and historic giants of this disaster. It’s the stuff of great narrative nonfiction. Eggers…has given us 21st-century Dickensian storytelling–which is to say, a character-driven potboiler with a point. But here’s the real trick: He does it without any writerly triple-lutzes or winks of post­modern irony. There are no rants against President Bush, no cheap shots at the authorities who let this city drown. He does it the old-fashioned way: with show-not-tell prose, in the most restrained of voices.”

Dave Eggers is the editor of McSweeney’s and a cofounder of 826 National, a network of nonprofit writing and tutoring centers for youth, located in seven cities across the United States. He is the author of four previous books: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), You Shall Know Our Velocity, What Is the What, and How We Are Hungry.