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Do you mind if I ask you a question? -Dave Barry, novelist, journalist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist.

There was a time I fantasized that Dave Eggers and I could be friends. More: I think like many I wanted to be Dave Eggers. His first book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) led the way for a literary career that includes both the hilarious and earnest; he founded 826, a group of nonprofit writing centers, McSweeney’s, a hilarious quarterly journal and publishing imprint, Voice of Witness a human rights nonprofit, and a number of his books feature those that live invisibly at the margins in American society: Sudanese refugees, Syrian- and Yemeni-Americans, etc. Someday he’ll win the MacArthur genius award, and we’ll never had even had a chance to grab a beer.

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Do you mind if I ask you a question? -Dave Barry, novelist, journalist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist.

Dave Barry’s dry wit made a big impression on me in high school. Later, in college, when preparing to move to Japan, I picked up Dave Barry Does Japan (1992). Turns out throughout all his zany humorizing, there was a lot for me to chew on. I wasn’t the only one, in 1988 at the Miami Herald, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his “consistently effective use of humor as a device for presenting fresh insights into serious concerns.”

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