BlogFlock

An Interview with Dave Eggers About His New Novel, Contrapposto

McSweeney’s
53 posts last month
Feed
Copied!
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/contrapposto-a-novel-dave-eggers/855fec22a73d7bf5?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=dsa_nonbrand&amp;utm_content={adgroupname}&amp;utm_term=aud-1885352274224:dsa-19959388920&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=12440232635&amp;gbraid=0AAAAACfld43lEM53DU8V_hrsN_mXwzyjc&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwoMXQBhDcARIsAH-eEtulY-qqSDh1K_Z34cLcu7sbzD1HMta9nSJZbU6x0ohVjPCmmSg0dooaAvCUEALw_wcB"><img src="https://tendency-prod.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/2wsacwubj8sogjhdtv1ee08h0dwr" alt="" /></a></p> <div class='break'>- - -</div><p>Q: This is a very funny, very moving book about the deepest kind of friendship. It unfolds over many decades, and the novel took shape over decades for you, too. When did you begin thinking about these characters?</p> <p><span class="caps">DAVE</span> <span…

My Typical Day According to My Thirteen-Year-Old

McSweeney’s
53 posts last month
Feed
Copied!
<p>I wake before dawn to coordinate with my vast network of parental co-conspirators. Our agenda this morning is straight fire, as the youth would say, beginning with a vigorous debate about scheduling sunrise for maximum cruelty. We ultimately settle on triggering dawn just a liiiiiitle bit earlier than it was…

Thirteen Ways of Looking at AI

McSweeney’s
53 posts last month
Feed
Copied!
<p style="text-align:center;"><i><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45236/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackbird">With apologies to Wallace Stevens.</a></i></p> <div class='break'>- - -</div><p><strong>I</strong><br /> Meeting with the academic dean<br /> I asked him to share with faculty<br /> How admin are using AI.</p> <p><strong>II</strong><br /> A colleague shares a short story:<br /> Kafka sitting in a sales meeting<br /> For AI.</p> <p><strong><span…

Nature Cam

McSweeney’s
53 posts last month
Feed
Copied!
<p><em><a href="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/underground-artists"><strong>Underground Artists</strong></a> is an ongoing comic by Ali Fitzgerald (<a href="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/hungover-bear-and-friends"><strong>Hungover Bear &amp; Friends</strong></a>) that follows woodland creatures as they create art and search out whimsy in a bleak forest.</em></p> <div class='break'>- - -</div><p style="text-align:center;"><img src="https://tendency-prod.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/ya4m85qom5i1rcdoy9lkd4xozl77" alt="" /></p>

Epidurals, for Him

McSweeney’s
53 posts last month
Feed
Copied!
<p>You&#8217;ve had a long, hard nine months. Your wife&#8217;s been pregnant, and in month nine, she was so uncomfortable in bed that she made you sleep on the futon. Twice.</p> <p>And yet, you survived. At long last, the big day is upon you. A baby&#8217;s birth is a significant medical…

Corruption Has Gotten Way Too Lazy

McSweeney’s
53 posts last month
Feed
Copied!
<p><i>&#8220;President Donald Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service on Monday in exchange for a settlement deal to launch a $1.8 billion fund to pay claims made by his friends for purported unfair prosecution.&#8221; &#8212;</i> <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/trump-irs-settlement-slush-fund-doj/">Mother Jones</a></p> <div class='break'>- - -</div><p>This used to be a…

Scenes from The Baltimore Beefcake, an Edgar Allan Poe Biopic in Which He is Totally Jacked

McSweeney’s
53 posts last month
Feed
Copied!
<p><strong><span class="caps">SCENE</span> 1.<br /> <span class="caps">EXT</span>. A <span class="caps">BOULEVARD</span>. <span class="caps">MIDNIGHT</span>.</strong></p> <p><span class="caps">POE</span> drops his frock coat, loosens his cravat, and tears open his shirt, buttons flying, to reveal his body, which is totally jacked. His nipples glisten in the moonlight.</p> <p>A <span class="caps">BLACK</span> <span class="caps">CAT</span>, in the process of…

Comedic Stuff
Editing List

Created by
swrogers

Followers

Blogs