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The house is a factory.

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I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.

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People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

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I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

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I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

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But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

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But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.

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I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

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They took my mother's stomach out six months ago.

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You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.

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Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think you need to invest in the aesthetics.

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To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.

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McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

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It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

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But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

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I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

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And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.

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I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.

Dave Eggers

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experience

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I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

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government

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Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think you need to invest in the aesthetics.

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paper , uniquely , beautiful

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I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

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teacher

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Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

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But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.

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home

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McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

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business

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I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.

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To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.

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I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.

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I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

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I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

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You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.

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