YOU SHALL KNOW OUR VELOCITY
Dave Eggers
For those who found A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius -- Dave Eggers' previous meditation on loss, grief and metafiction -- on the book table at the neighborhood Costco (go Dave!) or puzzled long and loudly as it appeared without warning in their Christmas stockings, it's time to be confused, and moved, again. You Shall Know Our Veloocity takes Eggers' mind-tripping, heart-wrenching show on the road in an attempt to travel the world in seven short days, yet still manages to cover the same experimental and self-referential territory with the same amount of remarkable humility as its predecessor did. And this guy is no accidental tourist, either. His work with cultural heavies such as They Might Be Giants and Jonathan Lethem (the finest writer working today, bar none) under his independently-produced McSweeney's imprint sets him apart from most Costco writers right off the bat. The rest he makes up with sheer heart and cojones.