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Dave Eggers' freewheeling autobiography A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (complete with ironic 'Rules and Suggestions for how to Enjoy this Book') put him in the vanguard of American writers at the age of 29. Since then Eggers has published a novel, You Shall Know Our Velocity, and set up McSweeneys, a writing magazine that publishes unknowns alongside the likes of Zadie Smith and David Foster Wallace.

How We Are Hungry is a selection of Eggers' own dazzlingly inventive and knowing short fiction. Some reviewers are impatient with the self-consciousness of the technique, but none doubts his brilliance.

Also just out is Short Short Stories, a pocket-sized book of the razor-sharp mini-stories Eggers has been publishing weekly in The Guardian.

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