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A few weeks ago on a bike ride "inspiration struck" for Dave Eggers, reports SFGate...
Without a pen and paper handy, he was stuck texting the idea to himself. The problem? Eggers doesn't own a smartphone. "It takes 20 minutes to write a sentence," Eggers said... It's a funny predicament for Eggers, given that he's arguably the city's biggest proponent of the written word... Now age 56, Eggers' latest book is called "Contrapposto"...
On writing days, Eggers bikes to his sailboat docked near the Golden Gat
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