![]() ![]() ![]() Set a few years in the future, The Circle introduced the titular conglomerated monopoly–think Google, Facebook, and several other online behemoths rolled into one–through the eyes of one Mae Holland, a small-town born 20something striver desperate to please. Press play to hear a narrated version of this story, presented by AudioHopper. This is a long way of saying that he is cleverly insufferable, insufferably clever, and the perfect bard to build out the brave nu-1984 world of 2013’s The Circle and 2021’s The Every. ![]() There is often a sense, reading Eggers, that he’s looking down at his audiences, and he doesn’t help this impression with his loopy linguistic curlicues and a tendency to frame the world in fairy-tale terms. In memoir, in fiction, and in service of a peculiar brand of cultural semi-intellectualism? Less so. In the California-based author’s earliest years–fronting Might, a satirical magazine and McSweeney’s, a somewhat serious journal–these qualities were strengths. A light pompousness and a wan nobility inform Dave Eggers’ writing, a knowingness, a self-consciousness. ![]()
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