NEW YORK - SWELLING MASSIVE FEELINGS

It's getting increasingly hard to tell if Dave Eggers is a too-clever ass someone ought to slap in the face with a fine leather glove or if he’s so smart we should sit down with the intent of having a civilized beer but end up so wasted we get busted for stealing Segways and finish our night eating cheese sandwiches in jail together. He's basically the Alan McGee of recent written things, minus the coke-induced crash-and-burn phase (yet). However, since he’s published My Massive Feelings (Fragments from the Diary of a Young Girl), Laurie Weeks’ story from our fiction issue last year, in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, he's in our good books for at least the next few days.