This week we're delighted to present this late night, transatlantic phone chat with the legendary Dave Eggers! Dave is the author of many books including The Circle, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Museum of Rain. His latest if the tech satire The Every. He's also the founder of publishing house McSweeney's and co-founder of 826 National, a network of youth writing and tutoring centres around America. We talked to him about avoiding The Plague, deep-diving into Melville, timeless kids books and who the funniest writer in the world happens to be.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Dave Eggers - Heartbreaking Work...

Dave Eggers - The Every

Dave Eggers - The Circle

Albert Camus - The Plague

Herman Melville - Selected Writing

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Frank Herbert - Dune

Walter Wangerin - Book of the Dun Cow

Richard Adams - Watership Down

Jason Reynolds - Long Way Down

L Frank Baum - Wizard of Oz

Hugh Lofting - Dr Dolittle

Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island

Florence and Richard Atwater - Mr Poppers Penguins

SE Hinton - The Outsiders

Beverley Cleary - Beezus and Ramona

Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows

EB White - Trumpet of the Swan

EB White - Charlotte's Web

Katherine Ryan - The Audacity

EB White - Letters

EB White - One Man's Meat

Kurt Vonnegut - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

John Brandon - Ivory Shoals

Peter Ferry - Old Heart

Vendela Vida - We Run The Tides

Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run Frog Hospital

Lorrie Moore - Birds of America

Richard Russo - Straight Man

Nick Hornby - How To Be Good

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