Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Dave Eggers is the founder of McSweeney’s, a quarterly journal and website, and his books include You Shall Know Our Velocity, How We Are Hungry, Short Short Stories, and What is the What. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and Ocean Navigator. He is the recipient of the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Northern California.

Heartbreaking? Certainly. Staggering? Yes, I'd say so. And if genius is capturing the universal in a fresh and memorable way, call it that too