Creative Nonfiction

Dave Eggers

FROM ISSUE #38: IMMORTALITY

GORDINIER: You’ve said you got your start in newspapers. What did you learn from that experience?

I recommend journalism courses and/or writing for newspapers to every young writer I meet. I think there’s a discipline—that

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