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Dave Eggers on generosity, charity and giving it away:

Dave Eggers has made an empire out of generosity, and on the cheap as well. The earliest issues of McSweeney’s, his eccentric literary quarterly, look today as if they were printed on paper bags. His 826 Valencia (www.826valencia.org) writing lab, a charitable venture to develop literacy among six to 18-year-olds in San Francisco, was staffed by volunteers.

After six years, though, there are now six “chapters” of the 826 writing lab - from Seattle to Brooklyn - and Eggers’ publishing projects grow bigger and ever more complicated (one issue of McSweeneys included a comb).

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