Soren’s Seventh Song: A Q&A with Newly Minted Newbery Award Winner, Dave Eggers

Now to be fair, when I initially agreed to interview Dave Eggers about his brand new picture book Soren’s Seventh Song (out February 6th and illustrated by Mark Hoffman), he hadn’t yet won his brand new Newbery Award for The Eyes and the Impossible. Turns out, I was intrigued when the title was described to me as, “a deadpan take on creativity and persistence”, since that’s kind of my bag. Sure enough, when I read the book it was precisely that. An entire picture book about the process of . . . ...