0:00
/
Preview

Dave Eggers didn't want to give Trump another four years of his life

The author on creativity in a time of crisis, doing the work you love versus the work that the times demand, and the AI threat

So many of us can relate to Dave Eggers’s struggle in the Trump era. What do you do when the times demand constant attention, reaction to, outrage by events — and yet there is beauty in the world, there is joy and magic in your family and community, there are things you want to do and make that are outside of the political fight? Do you drop everything and report for the duty in the required reaction-outrage mode? Or do you insist on the right to do what you want to do, make what you want to make?

Don’t miss that and much more in our conversation with Eggers, above.

This post is for paid subscribers