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Article: Gen X Literary Phenom Dave Eggers Discusses His Latest Bestseller, Zeitoun
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- The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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Our favorite bookstore, Skylight, informed us online that on Aug. 20 Dave Eggers would be signing his latest book, Zeitoun, at the popular Los Feliz literary landmark. The title-the Arabic word for "olive"-intrigued us. Reading further, we learned that Zeitoun is the true-life account of Syrian-American Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a reputable painter and contractor in New Orleans who remained in the Big Easy to keep an eye on his properties after Hurricane Katrina hit. Seven days later, he vanished.
Hopeful of taking a photo of Eggers and talking to him about his book, we arrived a half hour early and were stunned to see hundreds of people milling around outside the bookstore. We wriggled through ...
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