Dave Egger's enviable multitasking abilities
Apparently, Dave Eggers isn't busy enough writing the screenplay for Where the Wild Things Are, Away We Go, being the founder of McSweeney's and heading up the nonprofit 826 because his new book Zeitoun comes out today.
Dave Eggers spent two years interviewing and researching Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a Syrian-American who was arrested when he went out in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to help his neighbors and check on his rental properties. He was detained for over three weeks and refused medical attention, all while being harassed about being a Muslim. Probably not the best beach reading, but goddamn, does Dave Eggers knows how to tell a story.
Also, while less literary titillating, the fur covered edition of Where The Wild Things would make an amazing gift.
