Last week, speaking at an event at the Center for Fiction, the writer David Lipsky recalled his first impressions of a visit to David Foster Wallace’s home. Mr. Lipsky expected the usual decorative trappings of the self-conscious intellectual: a shelf full of impressive books, yes, but also some signature of the Read More
Today Grantland began selling Grantland Quarterly, a print anthology of the best reads from the sports and culture site so far. It is edited by Bill Simmons and Dan Fierman.
ESPN and Grantland have contracted McSweeney’s to handle the production and distribution (which, in retrospect, explains why Dave Eggers is a Grantland contributing editor). Read More
When David Foster Wallace hanged himself with a black belt and his arms bound by duct tape on the patio of his home in Claremont, Calif., on Sept. 12, 2008, he had published a history of the concept of infinity, three collections of short stories, two books of essays and two novels. The last of Read More
- A new study shows that when national election results are announced, those who voted for the winner are more likely to increase their internet porn usage. Who says self-love is for losers?
Now that he’s no longer speaking constantly on behalf of print media, Dave Eggers has some free time to open his first solo art show.
“It Is Right to Draw Their Fur” will be hanging at Electric Works in San Francisco from July 16 through August 14. More than 100 of Read More
The Gist: A coffee-table retrospective of twelve years of McSweeney’s, told issue-by-issue and book-by-book, and, focusing on the text-heavy, deliberately arcane design that marks everything Dave Eggers has ever touched.
Author: The editors of McSweeney’s
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Page Count: 256
Pages Read: 50ish? We were skipping around.
Does It Work? It’s clogged by tepid interviews with the people responsible, Read More
How on earth did this not come to our attention sooner?
It seems that one of the contributors to Dave Eggers’ Panorama is the Transom’s favorite permanent grad student and performance artist, James Franco.
If you can save journalism, James, then your forthcoming appearance in Eat, Pray, Love is Read More
Today, a bicoastal examination of the future of media.
Dave Eggers spoke recently at Berkeley’s J-School about print journalism. He and fellow McSweeney’s leaders took the opportunity to explain the economics of the quarterly’s recent newspaper experiment, the Panorama. Reports SF Weekly:
Many people assumed Dave Eggers’ business model for the next-generation newspaper Read More
In an interview with The Onion‘s A.V. Club, Dave Eggers reminisces about the days when journalism was a clean operation:
To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. The web model is just so much more complicated, Read More
