Ebook {Epub PDF} Stories Upon Stories by Dave Eggers

 · Mission: To inspire and collect the stories of private citizens engaged in improving their local public schools. Background: Once Upon a School was developed in response to a wish by author (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) and publisher Dave Eggers, a winner of the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) prize. Each year, three individuals are granted a wish at the TED .  · Stories Upon Stories. by. Dave Eggers, Alessandro Baricco, Yiyun Li, Umberto Eco, A.B. Yehoshua. it was amazing · Rating details · 2 ratings · 1 review. Stories Upon Stories is an epic re-imagining of ten classic tales: Dave Eggers rewrites Jules Verne’s rollicking “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” Ali Smith reconceives Sophocles’ tragedy “Antigone,” Umberto Eco reimagines the 5/5.  · Dave Eggers' new novel "The Every" is set in a not-so-distant future where a ubiquitous tech giant called The Every is reaching deeper and deeper into people's lives. To publish and distribute the book, Eggers said he tried to skirt one of today's giants, but that was no easy feat.

Dave Eggers first caught the world's attention with the semi-autobiographical "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius." With the release of "How We Are Hungry," we get to see Eggers in a slightly new light -- these stories possess his usual postmodern skill and pensive intelligence, but lack the gentle humor and wit. Dave Eggers has been partly responsible for a rejuvenation of short fiction in the USA, and these short stories are as original and witty as any of his longer works. Contents. "You Know How to Spell Elijah". "This Certain Song". "What the Water Feels Like to the Fishes". "The Weird Wife". Reviewed by Scott Doyle I had to fight myself to give the very short stories in One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box (a handsome McSweeney's set of stories by Dave Eggers, Deb Olin Unferth, and Sarah Manguso) a fair chance. For me, the play of language and ideas is important, but not sufficient; I need story and character and dramatic tension.

By Dave Eggers. Vintage ($) Advertisement. Just how would a person who believes that the Every, an all-powerful tech company (essentially Google after having bought out Amazon), is destroying. Stories Upon Stories (), anthology of short stories, editor and contributor; Some Recollections from a Busy Life: The Forgotten Story of the Real Town of Hollister, California by T.S. Hawkins () (Eggers provides the introduction to a reprint of an autobiography by his great, great grandfather originally published in ) Screenplays. Stories Upon Stories is an epic re-imagining of ten classic tales: Dave Eggers rewrites Jules Verne’s rollicking “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” Ali Smith reconceives Sophocles’ tragedy “Antigone,” Umberto Eco reimagines the mind-bending Italian classic “The Betrothed,” along with seven more equally inspired pairings of timeless masterpieces with contemporary lite.