From a reader: "Re: Heidi Julavits and her claim that 'everybody knows everybody in one way or another', here's an old Web site that used to track—in insanely obsessive detail—every Eggers connection and association. The site was run by Gary Baum, a high school student who ran an interview with Eggers' sister Beth (later reprinted in Harper's) in which she complained that her brother took all the credit for raising their little brother, Toph. Keith Gessen, a freelancer, wrote a 10,000-word piece about Baum, his site, Eggers, and Beth for The Atlantic, but the piece got killed when Beth committed suicide and Eggers appealed to the Atlantic to respect his family's privacy. All of this happened like two or three years ago, but the site is good for teasing-out those lit-world connections."
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