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Dave Eggers' The Wild Things is available for preorder, in regular hardcover and
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Letters From an Earth Ball to, or Concerning, Sean Hannity. By Ben Greenman - - - - About to Blow Up: An Earth Ball Terminates His Remaining Respect for Sean Hannity (6/3/09) Round and a Bout: An Earth Ball Gets Into It With Hannity, Limbaugh, and Steele (3/6/09) Sphere Today, Gone Tomorrow: An Earth Ball Considers the Future, and Suffers the Recent Past (11/3/08) Roll Me Away: An Earth Ball Considers Love, Loss, Sheer Hypocrisy, and Sean Hannity (8/28/08) Thrown for a Curve: The Earth Ball Gets an Earful and an Eyeful, and Not Just of Sean Hannity (6/26/08) Black and White and Read All Over: Earth Ball Comes in Like a Lamb (3/24/08) Together in Perfect Harmony: An Earth Ball Laments the Distortions of Sean Hannity (1/21/08) Sally Go Round the Roses: A Letter From Earth Ball Mourning a Friend and Remarking Upon Sean Hannity (11/5/07) Balls Deluxe: A Letter From Earth Ball's Summer (8/27/07) Mischance(*) and Melancholy: A Summer Letter From an Earth Ball (7/9/07) Did It Like That With a Baseball Bat: An Earth Ball Resumes His Letter-Writing After a Short Interval (5/14/07) Raining All the Time: An Earth Ball Writes Yet Another Letter (3/15/07) Sean Hannity Takes Care of Business: Another Letter From an Earth Ball (8/30/06) Letter From an Earth Ball (9/19/05)

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