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Nick Hornby

In conversation with Dave Eggers

Thursday, October 8, 2009 |  Herbst Theatre, 8pm

English writer Nick Hornby made his debut in 1992 with the autobiographical Fever Pitch, which humorously chronicles his exploits as an obsessed fan of the Arsenal Football Club. Since then, he’s written four other books of nonfiction, numerous articles and critical pieces, and five novels, including High Fidelity and About a Boy, both made into major motion pictures. Hornby infuses his characters with passion and verve – whether through the musical “top-five” lists constructed by a record shop owner in High Fidelity, or 16-year-old Sam Jones’ idolization of skateboarder Tony Hawk in the novel Slam. In “Stuff I’ve Been Reading,” Hornby’s long-running column for The Believer magazine, the author discussed books he bought and what he’d read that month – often two completely different lists. Hornby’s influences range from David Gates’s novel Jernigan to the stories of Lorrie Moore, and his reading habits proved fertile ground for musings on lit culture and the manifold pleasures of a good book. Hornby’s sixth novel, out this fall, is Juliet, Naked, named for an album by musician Tucker Crowe, one of the novel’s main characters. The book tackles themes of love, loneliness and music – all strong suits in Hornby’s writings.

Dave Eggers is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity!, How We Are Hungry, and What Is the What. He co-founded the San Francisco-based writing center 826 Valencia, which now has chapters in New York, Los Angeles, Michigan, Seattle, Chicago and Boston. In 2008, he won the prestigious TED award for his efforts to educate and enrich the lives of underprivileged children. Eggers and his wife, the writer Vendela Vida, recently wrote the screenplay for “Away We Go,” a film directed by Sam Mendes. His forthcoming novel, The Wild Things, is inspired by the Maurice Sendak classic Where the Wild Things Are. It will be released alongside the Spike Jonze-directed film version of the book this fall, for which Eggers wrote the screenplay.

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