Hey, it's Kelly, and at the end of every week, I like to share something true and useful,

something I stumbled over that gave me a burst of optimism, something you can share with

friends like an audio greeting card, something to help us all keep our eyes on what's working

and what could be.

So, I'll be right back with this week's For The Good of the Order.

This is Kelly Corgan Wonders.

Hi, everyone.

We have an episode coming next week with Dave Eggers and Nick Hornby.

These are two of my favorite writers.

They've written things that I have studied and shared and probably tried to mimic in my

own writing.

There's something interesting that Dave Eggers did at the end of his book, A Heartbreaking

Work of Staggering Genius, which is how I came to know him, was through those pages

first and then live in person living in the Bay Area.

And it goes to something that we've talked about quite a lot on Kelly Corgan Wonders.

He says the author would also like to acknowledge the maker of comic book villains and superheroes,

those who invented or at least popularized the notion of the normal, mild, mannered person

transformed into mutant by freak accident.

With the mutant thereafter driven by a strange hybrid of the most rancid bitterness and the

most outrageous hope to do very, very odd and silly things.

Many times in the name of good, the makers of comic books seem to be on to something

there.

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