How We Are Hungry

"How We Are Hungry" is a collection of short stories by Dave Eggers, originally published by McSweeney's in 2004. [cite web | title=How We Are Hungry | last= | first= | work=the McSweeney's Store | url=http://store.mcsweeneys.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/catalog.detail/object_id/7afd5f72-97a1-45c0-909c-70d110dab4ce/HowWeAreHungry.cfm | date= | accessdate=2008-02-20 ] The hardcover first edition (ISBN 1-932416-13-7) includes the following pieces:

tories

*"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"
*"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" 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"
*"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"
*"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"

Publication details

The cover of the hardback is ornately impressed with a hippogriff.

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

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