A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Banality

Dave Eggers, the San Francisco novelist whose novel A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius helped reshape American fiction, is out with a new short story that seems to endorse California’s secession. The Palm Springs bomber is a uniquely California product. Music by Metalachi.

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Show Notes:

• 25-year-old suspect in fertility clinic bombing left behind ‘anti-pro-life’ writings, officials say
• Woman connected to the Zizians fired the bullet that killed a Vermont border agent, report says
• Is the California Dream a Mirage?
• Dave Eggers: Uncle Patrick’s secessionist breakfast
• GM Is Pushing Hard to Tank California’s EV Mandate
• Newsom says bailing L.A. out of budget crisis is ‘nonstarter.’ Bass remains hopeful
• Got medical debt? LA County may have just paid it off
• She brought ‘teeth’ as juvenile hall watchdog — but claims state defanged her
• Video shows L.A. probation officers letting group beat teen in Los Padrinos juvenile hall
• Gov. Newsom Smears USC Professor Mische for Reporting CA is Facing $8.43/gallon Gas as Refineries Close
• Salman Rushdie as graduation speaker upsets Muslim students at Claremont Colleges

Lance Christensen inside the state capitol:

• Lance Christensen
• Budget Bloat And Blame Games: Inside Newsom’s May Revision
• Newsom spends more to educate fewer kids more poorly
• AB 379 passed out of the Assembly with a 74-0 vote