Dave Eggers

...courtesy of this frequently beguiling yet oddly frustrating film version by Spike Jonze and the novelist Dave Eggers. The problem is not that Jonze and Eggers have missed the point of Sendak's tale. If anything, they have understood it so...

In this article: Maurice Sendak, Spike Jonze, Where the Wild Things Are, Wolf, Forest Whitaker, and Catherine Keener

...the author wanted to see preserved on the big screen. Recounting their meetings with Sendak, Jonze and the film's scriptwriter Dave Eggers said that the 81-year-old tried to convince them to abandon their idea, and even suggested a...

In this article: Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze, The Guardian, Where the Wild Things Are, and Britain

...winner Gore Vidal envisioned only pulp and dust Wednesday as he contemplated the state of books, while fellow honorary winner Dave Eggers declared that we live in a golden age. The evening's host, Andy Borowitz, joked that the meaning of...

In this article: Colum McCann, Andy Borowitz, Claudette Colvin, National Book Awards, Gore Vidal, and Frank McCourt

Amanda Craig is dismayed by Dave Eggers's verbose reworking of Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak's classic children's picture book The current vogue for rewriting or adding sequels to children's classics, from Winnie-the-Pooh to A...

In this article: Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are, Amanda Craig, Bankruptcy, and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

...longtime friend, presented the award. The Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community was presented to Dave Eggers. In addition to his work as a writer ("A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,"...

In this article: Colum McCann, National Book Award, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin, Andy Borowitz, and NEW YORK

...him on the stage. Two awards were known in advance: Gore Vidal received the Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and Dave Eggers the Literarian Award. Those were presented before dinner -- downsized to chicken from last year's...

In this article: National Book Award, Gore Vidal, New York City, National Book Foundation, and University of California Press

...Stories won; finalists included books by John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Thomas Pynchon and Eudora Welty. Dave Eggers won the 2009 Literarian Award, recognizing "outstanding literary service to the American literary...

In this article: National Book Award, US, McSweeney's, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Complete Stories, and What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng

Author Dave Eggers will be honored next Wednesday at the National Book Awards. After co-writing the screenplay for Where the Wild Things Are and writing a novelization, Dave Eggers has signed a movie deal for Zeitoun, his August book about...

In this article: National Book Awards, USA Today, New Orleans, World Series, McSweeney's, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Sunday New York Times, and Stephen King