What is this a picture of? Wrong! While this dude definitely needs some styling techniques, this is not a photo still from Bio-Dome 2: Global Munchies. This is in fact a photo of Dave Eggers. Are you still clueless? Well Dave here writes books, screen plays, edits an online magazine, and runs a non-profit tutoring center in conjunction with a pirate supply store (don't tell the Somalian pirates - not a baseball team).I have up to this point read one and a quarter books of this mans work. The first one being A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and the second being You Shall Know Our Velocity. His writing provides a fresh voice to literature and one that is able to keep me interested enough to continue reading. That can not be easily said for other authors. AHWOSG offers a glimpse into what it was like for Eggers at the age 21 to raise his brother age 8. YSHKOV is about a man ,Will, who comes into money but for one reason or another decides to travel around the world in a week and give away the money along with his friend Hand (thats all I got on this one, just started reading it). You should read these books but don't take my word for it ( I gave what felt like a Reading Rainbow review so it needed a RR ending. Miss you Lavar)
Now the main reason he has me all excited is that there are two movies coming out that he has written/co-written the screen play for. First Away We Go starring John Krasinski (Jim from the office) and Maya Rudolph (SNL, Idiocracy). John and Maya play a young couple expecting their first child and the cross-country journey they take in order to find a place to raise the young one. Second Where the Wild Things Are ( Eggers is also writing a nevel inspired by the book) and if you have not seen the trailer - it is one epic (and I try very hard not to use that word) trailer. They don't use much dialog during the trailer but if it's as good as his other work then there should be no let down.
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