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    Dave Eggers in Conversation with KQED's Michael Krasny - What is the What

    Dave Eggers in Conversation with KQED's Michael Krasny - What is the What

    Peninsula Library System

    October 1, 2008

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    Dave Eggers will appear with KQED Public Radio’s Forum host Michael Krasny. Krasny will explore with Eggers the characters and themes of What Is the What. This event includes audience Q & A and book sales and signing by both Eggers and Krasny (Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life). This is a Kick-Off Event for One Book One Community: San Mateo County Reads 2008.

    Born in Boston and raised outside Chicago, Eggers attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He began his writing career in the early 1990s as a contributing editor for Salon.com and as the founder of Might magazine in San Francisco. He has written several fiction and non-fiction books including A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000), You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002), How We Are Hungry (2004) and What Is the What (2006). His writing has appeared in a variety of magazines including Zoetrope, Punk Planet, Esquire, The New Yorker and Spin. A skilled artist, Eggers has designed most of the books and quarterlies published by McSweeney's, a magazine and book-publishing company he founded in 1998 iin San Francisco.

    • Ticket Info

      Tickets: Free

      Info Phone: 650-558-7444

    • Dates & Times

      Dates:
      October 1, 2008

      Times:
      7:30pm

    • Venue Info

      San Mateo Performing Arts Center

      600 North Delaware Avenue San Mateo, CA 94401

      Full map and directions

    • Parking Info

      Free parking available next to Performing Arts Center.

    • Accessibility Info
      • Wheelchair Access

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