San Francisco's favorite writer Dave Eggers was honored the other night in New York City for his charity work at 826 Valencia -- the organization that tutors kids in writing skills and now has chapters in six other cities besides SF. He gave a speech, reported in The New Yorker, in which he declared that print was not dead, and that anytime anyone thought it might be, or felt down about the state of publishing in general, they could email him at deggers@826national.org and he would cheer them up, or something. Most of the crowd cheered. As the New Yorker cheekily puts it: "For a night, at least, print lived." more ›