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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers ISBN 9785699210497
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Dave Eggers ISBN 9785699210497
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This book by Dave Eggers came up once on Tim Ferriss in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Craig Mod. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
From Wikipedia: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (ISBN 0-330-48455-9) is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000. It chronicles his stewardship of younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers following the cancer-related deaths of his parents. The book was an enormous commercial and critical success, reaching number one on The New York Times bestseller list and being nominated as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Time magazine and several newspapers dubbed it "The Best Book of the Year".
“Dave Edgars Pirate Shop, he's got his heartbreaking work of staggering genius comes out. That's an incredible book, right?”— Craig Mod
The guest here is Craig Mod: Writer, photographer, and book designer based in Japan; runs the Special Projects membership and craigmod.com, and authored the Random House book Things Become Other Things about a 600km COVID-era walk on Japan's Kii Peninsula. Craig Mod tells Tim Ferriss how a working-class kid from Connecticut became a Japan-based bookmaker, writer, and walker.
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