I received my copy of Huck Magazine #38 in the mail a few days ago, straight from the Church of London.  It’s not often that I order a British skateboarding magazine, but then it’s not often that Dave Eggers graces the cover of even the most American of magazines, either.¹  But arrive it did, in gray plastic bagging and with a sheet of skateboard decals and a nifty, miniature notebook to make lists of things.  The Eggers article and comments alone were worth the postal fee.

Perhaps my favorite image from Eggers’s A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is that of “the lattice.”  The lattice is this sense of the connectedness of people, of things, this thing of people that will catch us when we fall, where we will catch others when they fall.  The article is titled “Beyond the Lattice,” and in it you get a glimpse of Eggers past, present, and future.  You find out about his next book (his first biographical book since AHWOSG), about how he connects writing with helping others, and about his love for books and stories.  Quality quote about the lattice and young adult life:

In a way, in your twenties in a new city when no one’s from here, we’re all sort of orphans.  The only people that you can count on are a bunch of people that you work with and that you know.  You’re only as good as the reliability of that latticework.  If it holds it can feel very good.  And if there are any weak links it can be very heartbreaking . . .

You can check out the first part of the article here.  And you can order the whole magazine here.  It’s well-made.  It has an interview with Judd Apatow in it.  You get at least one book recommendation from Eggers that I myself have taken and am almost halfway done with.  Plus you get some decals and a notebook.  You have to love that.

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¹ It’s more than just a skateboarding magazine, really.  It’s about “radical culture.”  So there’s skateboarding and surfing and literary stuff and craftsmen content.  A nice collection of good things.