Dave Eggers: The Last Book I Loved, Destiny Disrupted

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July 28, 2009

I’m in the middle of Tamim Ansary’s Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes, and it’s incredibly illuminating. Ansary pretty much covers the entire history of Islam in an incredibly readable and lucid way. I’ve been recommending this book to everyone I know. Especially when people are looking for a comprehensive-but-approachable way to look at world history through the lens of Islam, there’s no better book.

(Check out The Rumpus Long Interview with Tamim Ansary)

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Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He is founder of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, and a journal of new writing, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. McSweeneyâ€™s also publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. Eggers is the co-founder of 826 National, a network of youth writing and tutoring centers around the United States.

2 responses

Nate

August 31, 2009

Only Dave can get away with having a bio longer than what he submitted!
Stephen Elliott

August 31, 2009

That’s not fair. I wrote the bio. Don’t blame Dave.