Like many other dramatized conversations in AHWOSG , the Q&A—46 pages long, even longer than the book’s front matter—devours itself, transforming from quasi-realistic representation of an actual event to a meta self-interrogation, in which Eggers describes the comfort of his own upbringing, movingly reveals his late father’s alcoholism, and defends... See more

I don’t know that I’ve ever read a book that is better at dramatizing—embodying—the feckless confidence of one’s early 20s, that feeling that if only you and your genius friends could be set loose upon society you could transform it, terraform the political and cultural and artistic structures of the earth and make a new world, a better one.... See more