I have been a Dave Eggers fan ever since reading, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" in 2000. I identified with the early-20's angst in his autobiographical book, and I admired his decision to plow the earnings from his fantastically successful book into children's writing workshops in San Francisco and Chicago.
He also put some of his earnings into creating a literary journal, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. With Egger's characteristic creativity, the journal changes format, topic and genre every quarter. In one quarter subscribers might receive a box of pamphlets, a la Thomas Paine, and a hardbound book of graphic novel comics in the next quarter.
When news came that McSweeney's Winter 2009 edition would be a one-time broadsheet Sunday-format newspaper, The San Francisco Panorama, I got excited. Eggers, who would be editor, had big ambitions. "We're kind of hoping the Panorama becomes a touchstone for folks," Eggers told Media Bistro, "Reminding them, 'Those ideas you had? They are good ideas, and this is how they might look like.'"
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