This caught me by surprise…pleasantly. Don’t know how many folks out there are fantoids of writer Dave
Eggers, author of Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (which it wasn’t…although it was quite good), but he is
also the mastermind behind the 826 Valencia project as well as the 826NYC version in Brooklyn. Each teach kids how to
write. Eggers is an odd cat, but I have tremendous respect for him.A documentary of Eggers and crew is being shown
tonight at the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. at 372 Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, NY. The film is called As Smart As They
Are: The Author Project, and it documents the collaboration between the McSweeney’s Brooklyn house-band One Ring Zero
and a whole panoply (wait, maybe half a panoply) of award-winning authors including Eggers, Paul Auster, Jonathan
Lethem, Rick Moody, Jonathan Ames, Myla Goldberg, Darin Strauss, Amy Fusselman, Clay McLeod Chapman & Lawrence Krauser.
I may check this out as I%u2019m a fan of many of these folks (at least the ones whose names I know).