Dave Eggers on What is the What?

Date
2007-12-16
Interviewer: Wachtel, Eleanor
Host: Wachtel, Eleanor
Interviewee: Eggers, Dave
Producer: Stinson, Mary (Producer)
Producer: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Description

This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with Dave Eggers. He achieved fame and recognition for his award-winning memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Now he's written a biography of Valentino Achak Deng, a "lost boy" of Sudan who eventually made his way to America where the complicated story of his life continues. The book is written as an autobiography and entitled What is the What?

Physical description
1 online resource (1 audio file (51 min., 32 sec.))
Location
Toronto (Ont.)
Subject (Geographic)
Sudan
Subject
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. English Networks
CBC Books
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Wachtel, Eleanor. Writers & company
Authorship
Authors, American--Interviews
Eggers, Dave
Eggers, Dave. What is the what
Deng, Valentino Achak--Fiction
Sudanese--United States--Fiction
Sudan--History--Civil War, 1983-2005--Fiction
Refugees--Sudan--Fiction
Refugees--United States--Fiction
Sudan--Emigration and immigration--Fiction
United States--Emigration and immigration--Fiction
Paramilitary forces
Dinka (African people)
Eggers, Dave. Heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Parents--Death--Psychological aspects
Brothers--Biography
Eggers, Dave--Childhood and youth
826 Valencia (Organization)
Davis, Lydia, 1947- Samuel Johnson is indignant
Dixon, Stephen, 1936-2019. I
Kaufman, Millard. Bowl of cherries
Genre
Discussion
Interviews
Literary readings
Sound recordings
Type of resource
Sound recording non-musical
Language
English
Part of
Writers & Company
Identifier
WritersAndCo-2007-12-16
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