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Dave Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s and the author of the bestselling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. His latest book, What Is the What, is the 2008 One Book, One Philadelphia featured reading selection. The collaboratively novelized autobiography of Sudanese refugee Valentino Achak Deng, What Is the What has been hailed by the New York Times as “an eloquent testimony to the power of storytelling” and “an extraordinary work of witness, and of art.”