Dave Eggers: “The Every” (Part 1)

Bookworm

KCRW

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

“The Every” is the new book by Dave Eggers, a follow-up to his book “The Circle.”

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:03.7	Boots!
0:08.8	Where would we be without boos?
0:12.7	Where would we be without good?
0:14.9	No, Tintuberg.
0:16.4	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:19.7	But where would we be without books?
0:23.6	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and welcome to Bookworm.
0:31.5	As many of you know, we begin and end the show with a song by the rock group Sparks,
0:38.2	who are one of my very favorite groups in the world.
0:44.2	And now today as a guest, we have Dave Eggers,
0:48.8	who I've been speaking to on again, off again,
0:52.4	since the publication of his first book, a heartbreaking work of
0:57.1	staggering genius. And now his new book has come out. It's called The Every, and it begins
1:05.7	its publication from the home press of Dave Eggers, McSweeney's.
1:14.0	It will be in a paperback version, may even be right now,
1:20.5	but the beautiful hardcover is available from McSweeney's.
1:26.0	This book has three subtitles. The title of the book is
1:33.8	the every. What are the three subtitles? Yeah, the every or at last a sense of order, or the final
1:43.1	days of free will, or limitless choice is killing the world.
1:48.2	I always liked sort of alternate titles as part of the title.
1:53.8	Like I think it was Ada or Arder that was the first one that I loved.
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