SF News 'We Can't Keep Living Like This': Dave Eggers Offers Firsthand Account of the Early Hours of the Glass Fire One of the Bay Area's most renowned writers, Dave Eggers, has offered up his own account of the Glass Fire for The New Yorker.
Arts & Entertainment Hermione Works At Google In New, Full Trailer For 'The Circle' Okay, so maybe Emma Watson didn't really go to Hogwarts like her famous Harry Potter character, but she did get her degree from prestigious muggle school Brown University and could totally work at
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For The Film Adaptation Of Dave Eggers' 'The Circle' Starring Emma Watson Dave Eggers' dystopian 2013 novel The Circle, a timely take on TwitterFaceGoogle and **bong rip** the implications of, like, technology and mass surveillance, was a pretty good movie script and not even a
SF News Peruse Dave Eggers' Latest, A Children's Book About How The Golden Gate Bridge Got Its Color In Pixar's Inside Out, which beautifully illustrates not just the inner workings of a child's mind but the sights of San Francisco, a voice in a young girl's head exclaims, "The Golden Gate
Arts & Entertainment Emma Watson Lands Tech Job... In Film Adaptation Of 'The Circle' With Brown, Oxford, and Hogwarts degrees to her name, Emma Watson would be a welcome addition to any number of powerful Bay Area tech companies. But for now, Watson is content to play
Arts & Entertainment McSweeney's Launches Kickstarter With Loopy Prizes Like Notes From Spike Jonze And Insults From The Onion “For 15 years now, it’s been a break-even operation,” founder Dave Eggers said of his small, Mission District-based publishing house McSweeney's, in an interview with the New York Times last October. “I’
Arts & Entertainment The 14 Best San Francisco-Set Novels We live in a relentlessly beautiful place that has inspired many over the years. This has always been a city brimming with artists, writers, and musicians and SF's bohemian streak will hopefully not
Arts & Entertainment Regarding Dave Eggers, BuzzFeed, And Our Culture Of Smarm Maybe finally, O Internet, there will be a hearty intellectual backlash against the Great Snark Backlash of The Early 2010s, as we're now going to call it. At least essayist, blogger, and overall
Arts & Entertainment Dave Eggers Will Discuss <em>Zeitoun</em>, Himself at One City, One Book Event Did everyone remember to do their One City, One Book homework and read local media do-gooder Dave Eggers' latest nonfiction work? For those of you late to class, the program intends to foster
Arts & Entertainment Dave Eggers Reveals Identity of the Real Timothy McSweeney Assuming you've given any thought at all to such things, you may have believed, as we did, that the Timothy McSweeney who figures in the name of Dave Eggers' ten-year-old literary journal and
SF News McSweeney's Bay Bridge Investigative Report Released As promised, as part of their San Francisco Panorama broadsheet newspaper, the one-time printing of which is available today at various local booksellers for the special price $5, McSweeney's investigative report on the
Arts & Entertainment <em>Where the Wild Things Are</em> Party & Film Review Well, would you look at that. SFist landed an invite to a VIP party at the Contemporary Jewish Museum for a fete honoring Spike Jonze's re-telling of Where the Wild Things Are. Actually,
misc Photo du Jour 468 Dave Eggers wearing a hat indoors (grumble, grumble) while signing copies of his latest effort, , today at Books Inc on Van Ness.Zeitoun
Arts & Entertainment Dave Eggers Goes Back to His Journalistic Roots One of San Francisco's favorite writers in residence, Dave Eggers, was on KQED's "Forum" this morning discussing his new book Zeitoun. It's a non-fiction work, just out from McSweeney's press as of last
Arts & Entertainment Dave Eggers Book Signing Tomorrow Although some claim to dislike local scribe Dave Eggers -- probably because he is successful, something writers and alleged writers hate like holy hell -- you should read his new book. It's a
Arts & Entertainment New Film With Script by Eggers and Vida Gets Scathing Review The new film Away We Go, directed by Sam Mendes and with a script by local literary it-couple Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, received a gut-punch of a review by A.O. Scott
Arts & Entertainment Dave Eggers Insists Print Not Dead 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
SF News Day Around the Bay Your Black Muslim Bakery women treated like "slaves." (Hot fish sandwiches don't make themselves, ladies.) [Oakland Tribune] Dan Noyes sticks it to Muni again, and not in a good way. Be sure to
misc Photo du Jour 36 (Check out the actual chin scratching occurring, lower right, at an intelligentsia event. Har!) Here we have novelist Dave Eggers at the National Book Critics Circle nominee announcement at City Lights. We're in
Arts & Entertainment Eggers And 826 Get A Little Ketchup Money Dave Eggers, well-known author and tutoring activist via 826 Valencia and its affiliates, has been awarded a grant from the Heinz Family Foundation. $250,000 smackers. Eggers, who had never heard of the
Arts & Entertainment 8/26 Day Festival This Sunday The literary bash will feature live performances, cartooning, Everett Middle School's dance troupe, readings, local writers (pardon me, novelists), paper flower making, haiku writing, bon mots flying to and fro, and much, much,
Arts & Entertainment McSweeney's Has Good Stuff To Read For Cheaper Than Usual We usually keep things pretty simple around here -- so if you want something a little more literary, there's a plethora of clever, quirky, smart, and wonderful writing at McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and
SF News Swells by the Numbers SFist Rita is out of town for work, so we are donning our tiara and gown for this weeks Swells analysis. Tra-la-la! Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column:
misc SFist Contest: Win Tickets To Litquake’s Opening Night! Lineup includes: Dave Eggers and END OF SUFFERING, Mark Eitzel (American Music Club), Jay Farrar (Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt), Dan Hicks, Penelope Houston (The Avengers), Ray Manzarek (The Doors), Dan "The Automator" Nakamura
Arts & Entertainment Musicians, Literature and Little Cable Cars When: Friday, October 6, 2006, 8pm Where: The Regency Center, 1290 Sutter St (Van Ness at Sutter) Call: (415) 673-5716 Admission: $25.00 Purchase Tickets Here SFist Mary Ladd, contributing, is on the
