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Dave Eggers is the author of The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Museum of Rain, among other books. He is the cofounder of 826 National, a network of youth writing centers, and Art + Water, a nonprofit visual art hub on San Francisco's waterfront. A classically trained artist and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Eggers has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is the recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the American Book Award. In 2024, The Eyes and the Impossible was awarded the Newbery Medal.
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Q: This is a very funny, very moving book about the deepest kind of friendship. It unfolds over many decades, and the novel took shape over decades for you, too. When did you begin thinking about these characters?
Dave Eggers: I've been thinking about Cricket and Olympia for about twenty years, and was writing random passages about them much of that period. Sometimes a certain book takes an especially long time to gestate and make its correct form known, and this was one of those books. When I finally arrived at the idea of having the book in seven sections, each leaping ahead in years, it felt like I'd arrived at the book's right shape. I've always wanted to follow a friendship between a man and a woman over decades, especially one in which there's no question of the two of them remaining close, despite countless trials and troubles. Cricket and Olympia have no choice but to remain in each other's lives, even though they have little in common beyond art, and their undying loyalty to each other.
Q: Cricket and Olympia's relationship overlaps with the art world throughout their lives, and you're a practicing artist yourself. What is it about the milieu of art school, and artists' lives that led you to base the novel in that world?
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