Having a bad day? Dave Eggers can help.
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.5 • 11.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2019
⏱️ 84 minutes
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| 1:04.0 | With the best comedy, it comes from a sense of moral clarity to some extent. |
| 1:11.0 | And the best satire is a form of moral outrage, you know, sublimated into the shape of comedy. |
| 1:24.0 | Hello, welcome to the client show in the box media. |
| 1:34.0 | So I just had the strangest conversation. |
| 1:39.0 | I've wanted to have Dave Egger's on the show forever. Like forever, like for years. |
| 1:44.0 | I've been fascinated by him for years. I've read the harping work of staggering genius when it came out. |
| 1:50.0 | I read a bunch of other novels, but like watching him over time, he created like the 826 series of pirate tutoring centers and McSweeney's and the believer. |
| 1:58.0 | Then he began writing these books like what is the what where he was doing this reportage in very earnestly tongue-a-story of other people's lives. |
| 2:06.0 | And the range of things he's done over time, the circle. |
| 2:10.0 | I'm just so fascinated by people who are able to stay creatively that alive and to start things that remain creatively that distinct. |
| 2:17.0 | So I want to talk to him for years. And he's just bringing out a new book, a satire of Donald Trump called the Captain of the Glory. |
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