Seven-year-old Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf. In any other era, he would be considered a boy. In 2007, he is considered willful and deranged. His home life is problematic. His parents are divorced; his father, immature and romantic, lives in the city. His mother has taken up with a younger man who steals quarters from the change bowl in the foyer. Driven by a series of pressures internal and external, Max leaves home, jumps in a boat and sails across the ocean to a strange island where giant beasts reign. The "Wild Things" is from Maurice Sendak's visionary classic. This is an all-ages adventure, full of wit and soul, that explores the chaos of youth while Max explores the chaos of the world around him. The live-action film, co-written by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers, and directed by Jonze, is due this autumn.

Wild Things

Eggers, Dave.

Teen & Young Adult

McSweeney's Books

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. Good Samaritan Abdulrahman has stayed on in the city, traversing its deeply flooded streets by canoe, feeding trapped dogs and rescuing survivors, as New Orleans becomes a disaster zone. But nothing could prepare him for the wholly unexpected nightmare that follows...

Zeitoun

Dave Eggers

History

The New Sins is the longest work of prose David Byrne has ever published. It is singularly simultaneously profound, bizarre, hilarious, beautiful and deadly serious. In addition to his elucidation of the qualities that are considered sins in contemporary life, the book contains approximately eighty color photographs taken by the author

The New Sins: Translated Out of the Original Tongues with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised

DAVID BYRNE

Religion & Spirituality

In 1855, when Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino wrote an English phrasebook for Portuguese students, they faced just one problem: The didn't know any English. All they had was a Portuguese-to-French dictionary, and a French-to-English dictionary. The linguistic train wreck that ensued is a classic of unintentional humor, now revived in the first newly selected edition in a century.

English As She Is Spoke: The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English, in Two Parts (English and Portuguese Edition)

Humor & Entertainment

Carolino, Pedro

Fonseca, José da

Humor

The Alternative Version of the author's debut novel. Called "Hand's Revised Edition", this is, in effect, a new work, not just another edition as some have called it. Limited Edition of 2000 signed copies. Hard boards with the first paragraph of the novel on the cover, as issued. Text by Dave Eggers. Without DJ, as issued. Eggers' novel is, in many ways, a further exploration of the themes of his breakthrough memoir, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius". Eggers's ears are keenly attuned to the malaise as well as the redeeming possibilities of contemporary American life. Not surprisingly, he is also a convincingly charming, playful, self-styled iconoclast who, in this book and in his McSweeney's Quarterlies Series, is clearly making fun of collectors: Their obsession with a book's condition and the very notion of "first edition". The book is deliberately produced as a cheap book (but beautifully so, with handsome red cloth spine) and two editions were published simultaneously, one with and one without the indication, "First Edition". Now comes yet another version: "This one is about 60 pages longer, the added pages having been written by the book's other primary character, Hand. His insertion, which occurs two-thirds of the way through the book, in many ways refutes the way the story was originally told. The new version of the book has a new title and many more photographs, all in color" (Publisher's blurb). Ironically, all this Rashomon-style variant storytelling has made the book and Dave Eggers much more collectible than it or he would have been had he followed hallowed publishing conventions. A work of staggering ambition. © 2005, ModernRare.com

SACRAMENT. Known Previously as You Shall Know Our Velocity.

Eggers, Dave, and Frances "Hand" Wisneiwski (Editor)

This book was conceived by Safran Foer Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Dave Eggers as a way to bring over a hundred authors together to promote progressive causes in the November 2004 election. The book is an imagining of what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when all of the world's problems are solved and our current president is a distant memory. The book is by turns funny, outraged, utopian, and dyspeptic. 
Over 150 writers contributed to the book, including: Stephen King, Robert Olen Butler, Glen David Gold, Richard Powers, Susan Straight, Sarah Vowell, Billy Collins, C.K. Williams, Colson Whitehead, Donald Antrim, Jonathan Franzen, Edwidge Danticat, Edward Hirsch, Joyce Carol Oates, Katha Pollitt, Padgett Powell, Paul Auster, Anthony Swofford, Julia Alvarez, Susan Choi, Jim Shepard, Aimee Bender, and Art Spiegelman. 
Hardcover editions of the book will also include a CD compilation, with all new songs by the best musicians working. Among them: David Byrne, R.E.M., Death Cab for Cutie, Moby, Sleater-Kinney, Flaming Lips, Tom Waits, Yo La Tengo, Bright Eyes, They Might Be Giants, Elliott Smith, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

The Future Dictionary of America

Eli Horowitz

Jonathan Safran Foer

NICOLE KRAUSS

Reference

The fourth issue of Wholphin will feature Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard lying to one another; the FBI mistaking an artist for a bioterrorist; Scottish 9-year-olds singing "Satan Rocks" at their country fair; an episode of the Russian "Married... with Children" re-scripted; an Academy Award nominated short; nuns; retired chimpanzees; plaster casters; and films from France, Morocco, New Zealand and the U.K. This issue will also include a bonus disc featuring the final installment of Adam Curtis¹s The Power of Nightmares. Part Three: "The Shadows in the Cave."

Wholphin No. 4

Hoff, Brent

The third issue of Wholphin features a brilliant student film by Alexander Payne (Sideways, Election), Dennis Hopper's legendary performance art piece "The Russian Suicide Chair," the second installment in Bob Odenkirk's (Mr. Show) hilarious Derek and Simon series, unforgettable scenes of after-school Dada in the Japanese film "Funky Forest," documentation of the trap-jaw ant's record-breaking predatory strike, newfound talent abroad in France and Sweden, a Yemeni documentary following the bravest thirteen-year-old girl in the world as she refuses to wear the veil, and more. Issue No. 3 also includes Part II: "The Phantom Victory" of Adam Curtis' riveting documentary, The Power of Nightmares.

Wholphin No. 3: DVD Magazine of Rare and Unseen Short Films

Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (Or "Gegenshein"), Autumn 1998

Literature & Fiction

Eggers, Dave, ed

United States

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