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Dave Eggers’ “The Captain and the Glory” Satirizes the Trump Era

KQED's Forum - December 30, 2019 16:30 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings
In Dave Eggers' latest book "The Captain and the Glory," an inexperienced and dishonest man becomes the captain of a storied ship. Hired to "shake things up," the captain discards all of the ship's books and terrorizes its once-welcome refugees. Eggers joins Forum to talk about the book, an alleg...

Books written by Dave Eggers

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers

2 Episodes - 485 pages - ★★★★ - 154K ratings

What Is the What
Dave Eggers

2 Episodes - 475 pages - ★★★★ - 64.1K ratings

You Shall Know Our Velocity!
Dave Eggers

1 Episode - 401 pages - ★★★★ - 25.4K ratings

You Shall Know Our Velocity
Dave Eggers

1 Episode - 350 pages - ★★★★ - 255 ratings

How We Are Hungry
Dave Eggers

224 pages - ★★★★ - 11.8K ratings

Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category
Dave Eggers, Kevin Shay, Lee Epstein, Suzanne Kleid, McSweeney's Publishing

249 pages - ★★★★ - 1.76K ratings

The Tenants of Moonbloom
Edward Lewis Wallant, Dave Eggers

264 pages - ★★★★ - 488 ratings

How We Are Hungry: Stories
Dave Eggers

218 pages - ★★★★ - 486 ratings