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Dave Eggers on TED about 826 Valencia, a pirate supply store and youth tutoring centre

Here’s a great video from the very addictive Ted talks. In this talk, we meet Dave Eggers, the founder of independent publishing house, McSweeney’s, who along with publishing great contemporary novels also put out The Believer magazine, Wholphin DVD series, Voice of Witness, and the McSweeney’s Quarterly. All of these publications are unique in their [...]

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Post Author: Tessa Smith

Published on: August 7th, 2008

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Dave Eggers and Yann Martel in Montreal

The McGill Undergrad Book Club is publicizing a reading series being put on by Paragraphe Bookstore:
Paragraphe Bookstore, in conjunction with the Montreal Gazette, has published its list of authors for the “Words After Dark 2007″ lecture series. Authors, dates and times are given below. For more information or for tickets, please visit Paragraphe bookstore (corner [...]