How We Are Hungry is a collection of short stories by Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is known for the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and for his more recent work as a screenwriter. He is also the co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia.-Life:Eggers was born in Boston, Massachusetts,...

, originally published by McSweeney's

McSweeney's

McSweeney's is an American publishing house founded by editor Dave Eggers.Apart from its book list, McSweeney's is responsible for four regular publications: the quarterly literary journal,...

 in 2004. The hardcover first edition (ISBN 1-932416-13-7) includes the following pieces:

Stories

• "Another"
• "What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust," originally published in The Guardian
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• "The Only Meaning of the Oil-wet Water," originally published in Zoetrope All-Story
• "On Wanting to Have Three Walls up Before She Gets Home," originally published in The Guardian
• "Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance," originally published in The New Yorker
  The New Yorker
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  in a slightly different form as "Measuring the Jump"
• "She Waits, Seething, Blooming," originally published in The Guardian
• "Quiet"
• "Your Mother and I," originally published in h2s04
• "Naveed," originally published in The Guardian
• "Notes for a Story of a Man Who Will Not Die Alone," originally published in another form in Ninth Letter
  Ninth Letter
  Ninth Letter is a literary magazine that publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. It is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the and the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ninth Letter exists in two related but distinct forms: a biannual print...
  
  
• "About the Man Who Began Flying After Meeting Her," originally published in The Guardian
• "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly," originally published in McSweeney's #10
  Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
  Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern is a literary journal, first published in 1998, edited by Dave Eggers. The first issue featured only works rejected by other magazines, but thereafter the journal began to include pieces written with McSweeney's in mind. McSweeney’s has since published works by...
  
  
• "There Are Some Things He Should Keep to Himself"
• "When They Learned to Yelp"
• "After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned," originally published in Speaking with the Angel
  Speaking with the Angel
  Speaking with the Angel is a collection of short stories edited by Nick Hornby and published by Riverhead Trade in 2001...
  
  

Publication details

The cover of the hardback is ornately impressed with a hippogriff

Hippogriff

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"There Are Some Things He Should Keep to Himself," which consists solely of five blank pages, is not included in the paperback edition.