Aisha Tyler: Um, hum. Eggers in print McSweeney's, if any of you have ever seen the McSweeney's Quarterly or The Believer, he is an incredible believer, not just in the concept of the printed word,
years in a penal colony for discrediting the Russian army. Let's get more on those two cases from our Russia analyst, Konstantin Eggert. Welcome, Konstantin. Was there any real chance of Yabloko's appeal succeeding?
such miscarriage of justice if you can call it justice in any way. Very sobering assessment. Thanks for that Konstantin DW Russia analyst Konstantin Eggert.
And then also, why I chose this paper is that I used to intern and volunteer at McSweeney's Publishing in San Francisco. So I was there for about five years and I got to work closely with the author Dave Eggers . And on a number of the projects, they're very unique and special binding.
I won't embarrass anyone. So last night, he comes from an event in Southern California with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, BJ Novak, Dave Eggers , and Thandie Newton, who were reading some of these letters.
So we recruit a great group of authors. We've had pep talks from Neil Gaiman, Philip Pullman, Dave Eggers , Sue Grafton, of course Aimee Bender, Nick Hornby. Just all these great authors that send out these messages that tend to hit your inbox just when you are about to die.
Again," a handful of other somewhat seminal works of the late 20th century. It would be a bit of a Herculean task to document his life in such an enthusiastic and exhaustively researched fashion, but I think, as Dave Eggers , put it, we should feel grateful that this story was told by someone as talented and as responsible as D. T. Max, which I agree.
Aisha Tyler: Um, hum. Aisha Tyler: Yeah, the show is sold out, but if I could just say one minute about it, if you guys don't know about 826 Valencia, this is a charity that Dave Eggers , the genius
and if you can see it here is a quixotic journey that was conceived by the renaissance man Tom Corwin who purchased a classic bookmobile, stocked it with thousands of books, and is about to drive it across the country, uh, along with a series of notable authors including Dave Eggers , Michael Pollan, Tom Robbins, Amy Tan, Scott Turow, and many others. Tom actually has two here with him today, the acclaimed author Jane Ganahl and author and Emmy-winning actor Peter
Aisha Tyler: Um, hum. writer, yes, one person reads books. That's awesome. Two people, alright. Hey, and e-readers are really killing us. Uh, so Dave Eggers created this charity called 826 Valencia that