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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