A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius

by Dave Eggers

Recommended in 3 interviews and reading lists

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Who recommends it

1. Tim KasherInterview

   Sure, I also love Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth, Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson, Lawd Today! by Richard Wright, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion and…

2. Dominique ChristinaInterview

   I, Tituba by Maryse Condé was essential to me. Stupid Hope by Jason Shinder. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers another. Too many to name, seriously.

3. Alun CochraneInterview

   Writers I think important to my comedy without necessarily being visible influences are Dave Eggers (I loved A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius), Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole books, and then someone like Nick Hornby whose stuff is so accessible as to seem easy to do and therefore perhaps doesn’t get all the…

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