# dave eggers — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover dave eggers. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Specter in the New Hotel](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/the-specter-in-the-new-hotel/) _2026-08-19 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ The next piece in The Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer is also supposed to be a non-fiction article. In actuality, it’s a fanciful embellishment of a real set of events that occurred at an elegant New York residence hotel in 1903. The Specter in the New Hotel, tells the ABSOLUTELY TRUE! story of a sinister \[…\] ## [A traitor to his class wants to upend capitalism](https://the.ink/p/a-traitor-to-his-class-wants-to-upend) _2026-08-18 · Anand Giridharadas · The.Ink_ Nick Hanauer, Amazon’s first outside investor, on Jeff Bezos’s great blind spot, the myths that made the rich richer, what socialism gets right and wrong, and building an economy of human flourishing [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211735963/72e86be00581f3dfef50c584aec34fb6.mp3) ## [Live today at 12:30 p.m. Eastern: Nick Hanauer, traitor to his class?](https://the.ink/p/live-today-at-1230-pm-eastern-nick) _2026-08-18 · Anand Giridharadas · The.Ink_ Join me as I talk to a bona fide member of the super-elite who wants America to put capitalists in their proper place ## [What you weren’t supposed to see](https://the.ink/p/what-you-werent-supposed-to-see) _2026-08-17 · Anand Giridharadas · The.Ink_ As MAN IN THE MIRROR arrives, I want to open the workshop door for the Ink community and share some of what usually disappears along the way. I don’t do this often, so come in before I regret it ## [THE RISE OF AOC: Power](https://the.ink/p/the-rise-of-aoc-power) _2026-08-15 · Anand Giridharadas · The.Ink_ What happens when a movement wins by losing? And what does it take to win outright? ## [THE RISE OF AOC: Outside, in](https://the.ink/p/the-rise-of-aoc-outside-in) _2026-08-14 · Anand Giridharadas · The.Ink_ Can a renegade make peace with the system -- and change it? ## [THE RISE OF AOC: Attention!](https://the.ink/p/the-rise-of-aoc-attention) _2026-08-13 · Anand Giridharadas · The.Ink_ How the youngest woman in Congress learned to leverage sudden, explosive visibility — and what she taught the Democratic Party ## [How a Spirit Corrected the Standard Dictionary](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/how-a-spirit-corrected-the-standard-dictionary/) _2026-08-12 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ The latest contribution to The Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer is an ostensibly non-fiction article, from the June 1929 issue of Ghost Stories. In How a Spirit Corrected the Standard Dictionary, Palmer relates how the ghost of Henry Ward Beecher sent a message to his friend Isaac Funk, during a seance. Funk was co-founder of \[ \] ## [THE RISE OF AOC: The crucible](https://the.ink/p/the-rise-of-aoc-the-crucible) _2026-08-12 · Anand Giridharadas · The.Ink_ How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez came to her very particular theory of persuasion and power. Part two of my portrait of her rise ## [THE RISE OF AOC: Beginnings](https://the.ink/p/the-rise-of-aoc-beginnings) _2026-08-11 · Anand Giridharadas · The.Ink_ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shook up American politics when she landed on the political scene -- and continues to shake it up. In part one of my in-depth report on her ascent, we look back at her origins ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ITdjogzE8LCL) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Connect your repo and deploy instantly — Railway handles config, scaling, and monitoring. ## [I didn’t like my friend’s intervention. He was right](https://the.ink/p/i-didnt-like-my-friends-intervention) _2026-08-07 · Anand Giridharadas · The.Ink_ I became a reporter because I wanted to understand people different from me. Then I gave in to a culture that tells us to reduce others. One day, my friend called me out ## [Dave Eggers to lonely Americans: Leave your house](https://the.ink/p/dave-eggers-to-lonely-americans-leave) _2026-08-07 · The Ink · The.Ink_ In our second conversation with the author, he offers a deceptively simple remedy to a loneliness epidemic in an age of screens [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208999974/f1ad21d508fe10d663d5308ba26deaab.mp3) ## [The Red Curse of the Mummy](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/08/04/the-red-curse-of-the-mummy/) _2026-08-04 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ I ve posted the next story in my Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer project. In The Red Curse of the Mummy, Ted Orchards joins a family friend, Professor Beames, on an expedition to the Valley of the Kings. The object: to unearth the tomb of the Pharoah Amenophis. But something out there seems to have other \[ \] ## [A Budget of Book Reviews: The Uncanny in Translation Edition](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/a-budget-of-book-reviews-the-uncanny-in-translation-edition/) _2026-07-29 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ It’s been a while since I’ve done a Budget of Book Reviews! So for this post, I’ll be discussing three anthologies that I’ve recently read: translations of non-Anglophone uncanny stories. Nordic Visions: The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction edited by Margrét Helgadóttir Solaris Books, 2023 The term “Finnish Weird” used to be a thing some \[ \] ## [There is Only One of You](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/there-is-only-one-of-you/) _2026-07-27 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ I ve been keeping a sort of commonplace book for a while now. It s almost entirely for my online reading, a place to keep quotes from blog posts and articles that strike a chord with me, along with links to the entire article. The very first quote that I entered was not an online quote, but \[ \] ## [Seven Gray Wolves](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/seven-gray-wolves/) _2026-07-22 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ I ve just posted the next story in my series The Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer, over at Dark Tales Sleuth. In Seven Gray Wolves, Frank Meadock runs a small sheep ranch in a remote area of Montana. It s a dangerous life, both for Frank s family and for his flock. But Frank s beloved collie Duke stands \[ \] ## [Two Short Mexican Folktales](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/two-short-mexican-folktales/) _2026-06-26 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ Here are a couple of short folktales from Max Leopold Wagner s 1927 paper Algunas Apuntaciones Sobre el Folklore Mexicano. As usual, I ve posted my translations to Ephemera. The Innocent Little Old Lady (La viejecita inocente): Shades of Jack and the Giant Beanstalk! A little old lady climbs a cabbage stalk all the way to heaven, \[ \] ## [A Sleeper Bewitched](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/a-sleeper-bewitched/) _2026-06-23 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ The next entry in my Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer series is the first of two (possibly three) stories about Max Brandt, “ghost layer.” A Sleeper Bewitched: Mr. Crane has been asleep for a month. No one knows why; no one can wake him up. And there’s a strange, disembodied hand hovering over his bed. Mrs. Crane \[ \] ## [The Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/the-supernatural-writings-of-stuart-palmer/) _2026-06-11 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ Announcing a new literary excavation project: ghost stories, articles, and an occult investigator mini-series! (A version of this article also posted at Dark Tales Sleuth.) Stuart Palmer (1905-1968) was a prolific writer, active in the crime fiction community from the 1930s into the 1960s. He was a well-regarded practitioner of the detective story, even serving \[ \] ## [Figures of Speech from Folktales](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/figures-of-speech-from-folktales/) _2026-06-01 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ Not too long ago, I translated/retold a Mexican fairy tale called “Ya mero la besa un pobre” (A Poor Man Nearly Kissed Her). As I mentioned when I introduced the translation, Ya mero la besa un pobre is a Mexican saying similar in meaning to the English expression So close, and yet so far…. You \[ \] ## [Meet Claude, an AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/kt4x4UlyZU8I) _2026-06-01 · **Sponsored**_ Chat with Claude at claude.ai — a conversational AI assistant. ## [How Hummingbird Brought Fire: An Ohlone Folktale](https://multoghost.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/how-hummingbird-brought-fire-an-ohlone-folktale/) _2026-05-30 · Nina Zumel · Multo (Ghost)_ After a decade, I m adding another tale to my Hummingbird Folklore series. Yesterday, I caught one of the last days of an excellent exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California: Good Fire: Tending Native Lands. The exhibit explored cultural burning, i.e. the traditional controlled burn practices of the Native Communities of Northern California, and discussed \[ \] ## [What constitutes art in a world with AI?](https://bigandimportant.substack.com/p/what-constitutes-art-in-a-world-with) _2026-03-25 · Lindsey · Big & Important_ Is art ART because of its creator, or its beholder? ## [Introducing Humdrum!](https://bigandimportant.substack.com/p/introducing-humdrum) _2026-03-12 · Lindsey · Big & Important_ A creative space that turns writing into play, and play into a habit. ## [Humdrum: Writing is Thinking](https://bigandimportant.substack.com/p/humdrum-writing-is-thinking) _2026-02-18 · Jacob · Big & Important_ Why we're building a creative writing space for kids ## [Crafting Experiences vs. Ideas](https://bigandimportant.substack.com/p/crafting-experiences-vs-ideas) _2026-02-11 · Lindsey · Big & Important_ Like many readers, I’m one who’s “sad” when I finish a good novel, sad that the ride is over. ## [Books as Stars](https://bigandimportant.substack.com/p/books-as-stars) _2026-02-03 · Lindsey · Big & Important_ “A book, too, can be a star, ‘explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,’ a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” —Madeleine L’Engle, Newberry Medal Acceptance Speech, August 1963 ## [Getting Started](https://bigandimportant.substack.com/p/getting-started) _2026-01-29 · Lindsey · Big & Important_ The hardest part about writing, for me, is getting started. ## [Thoughts on Writing and Noticing](https://bigandimportant.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-writing-and-noticing) _2025-07-11 · Big & Important · Big & Important_ Notice. Wonder. Then notice more. This is what reading and writing does for us. ## [Words I love](https://bigandimportant.substack.com/p/words-i-love) _2025-06-13 · Lindsey · Big & Important_ An inconclusive (ever growing) list of words I like ## [What We're Reading: The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers](https://bigandimportant.substack.com/p/eyes-and-the-impossible) _2025-05-14 · Lindsey · Big & Important_ I just finished reading Dave Egger’s recent novel, The Eyes & The Impossible. Though technically written for a middle grade audience, I’d recommend it to readers of any age. Told from the perspective of a lovable, wild dog named Johannes living in an urban park, this story gives readers a unique look at the nature of self-discovery and perception, and our unique roles in the equilibrium of our… ## [Every Channel. One Login. (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/lNyiT1cCcHXh) _2025-05-14 · **Sponsored**_ 17,000+ live channels, movies and sports on any device. Free trial, no IP lock. ## [What are we doing?](https://bigandimportant.substack.com/p/what-are-we-doing) _2025-05-06 · Jacob · Big & Important_ Why am I writing a Substack post to no one? ## [Why should we write?](https://bigandimportant.substack.com/p/why-should-we-write) _2025-05-06 · Lindsey · Big & Important_ Why Should We Write? ## [Getting the first post out of the way](https://bigandimportant.substack.com/p/getting-the-first-post-out-of-the) _2025-05-06 · Big & Important · Big & Important_ Ok, here’s our first post, to no one.