These include two unflinching looks at man’s inhumanity to man, in Africa and America respectively- What Is the What and Zeitoun-and the novel A Hologram for the King, which glances at the decline of America’s international clout through the eyes of a sad salesman. Then there’s the writing: the screenplays, the journalism, and, of course, the books. He has continued along a multibranched road that has included the founding of McSweeney’s magazine and publishing house, and an associated monthly, The Believer of 826 Valencia, a youth literacy charity and of ScholarMatch, connecting non-rich college-age kids in the San Francisco Bay Area with donors. By that time he was already active in the underground worlds of comic strip writing, small-magazine founding, and columnizing in the then-embryonic realm of online magazines. The Circle is Dave Eggers’s tenth work of fiction, and a fascinating item it is.Įggers’s first major book was the much-acclaimed semifictional memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000), which recounts the struggles of Eggers to raise his younger brother after the death of their parents. Robert Gumpert/NB Pictures/Contact Press Images
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