Fellow celebrity authors supported Leroy, among them Dave Eggers, Lou Reed and Suzanne Vega.
Eggers, John Hagel and Owen Sanderson in a blog post for Harvard Business Review.
Unlike Mr Eggers's memoir, which hedged every move and revealed every anxiety, these stories are impressively controlled.
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The whimsical title of Dave Eggers's cancer-and-family memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" was catnip to the curious.
William Eggers, of the Reason Public Policy Institute, laments that the mayor privatised hardly anything in his first term.
Backyard farmers focus on texture and taste, and on new breeds of chicken known as Easter Eggers, that lay blue, pink or violet eggs.
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For instance, last year while visiting Afghanistan I found Macedonians (from a military totaling 8000 personnel) manning the gates at Camp Eggers in Kabul.
Jana Eggers, chief executive of Spreadshirt, credits the banner ads with boosting by 20% the number of people who use Spreadshirt to sell their own customized products.
An earnest but shrewd drama of conscience, written by the actors Matt Damon and John Krasinski (from a story by Dave Eggers) and directed by Gus Van Sant.
Based on the their blogs, authors Joann S. Lublin and A. Kelly Eggers have been following this topic for a couple of years, and their conclusion was rather stimulating.
Double back and head up a block to Venice Boulevard to visit the Museum of Jurassic Technology (www.mjt.org), a deadpan collection of genuine fossilized curios and phony artefacts that feels like collaboration between Dave Eggers and David Lynch.
It was through that T1 line that the author became acquainted with Real World reject turned publishing mogul Dave Eggers, on whose Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency Hodgman's deranged authority figure would first begin to take shape.
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Despite some critical indignation over Dave Eggers's "autobiography" of Valentino Achak Deng in "What Is the What, " I had no problem with the writer collaborating with his subject to make a great story even more compelling.
Mr. Perrottet tells of two authors, Dave Eggers ( A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) and Nora Ephron ( I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections), who use a computer program called Freedom that blocks Internet access for up to eight hours.
Mr Eggers puts most of the blame for this, however, not on the mayor but on the unruly city council, which routinely opposes any reform that might upset the public-sector unions and is currently bent on overriding the mayor's veto and securing a minimum wage for city employees.
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