After the reading, he settled into one of the plush desk seats of Science Center C and made witty conversation with about 100 students who remained behind for Eggers to sign copies of his books.
One undergraduate enthusiastically summed up the night’s multifarious events.
“After watching Dave’s reading, after watching him kick his coat against the lectern, carve out a pair of breasts in the air with his hands, pick at a piece of tape on the stand at least once every five minutes for the duration of the reading…I came away feeling like I knew the guy much more than the other authors I’ve seen this fall,” said Ryan M. Riley ’06.
—Staff writer Emily S. High can be reached at high@fas.harvard.edu.
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