The house is a factory.
From Dave Eggers
They took my mother's stomach out six months ago.
Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.
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.
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.
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.
I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.
Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.
I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.
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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