It Was a Work of Staggering Genius—and a Sensation. Then It Went Away. What Happened?

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 def... See more