How We Are Hungry: Stories

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How We Are Hungry: Stories is a collection of short stories by Dave Eggers, originally published by McSweeney's in 2004. It includes the following pieces:

• "Another," an original piece.
• "What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust," a short short story originally published in The Guardian.
• "The Only Meaning of the Oil-Wet Water," a story originally published in Zoetrope All-Story and a sequel-of-sorts to the novel You Shall Know Our Velocity.
• "On Wanting to Have Three Walls up Before She Gets Home," a short short story originally published in The Guardian.
• "Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance," a story originally published in The New Yorker in a slightly different form as Measuring the Jump.
• "She Waits, Seething, Blooming," a short short story originally published in The Guardian.
• "Quiet," an original piece.
• "Your Mother and I," a story originally published in h2s04.
• "Naveed," a short short story originally published in The Guardian.
• "Notes for a Story of a Man Who Will Not Die Alone," a story originally published in altered form in Ninth Letter, a magazine from Eggers' alma mater, the University of Illinois.
• "About the Man Who Began Flying After Meeting Her," a short short story originally published in The Guardian.
• "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly," originally published in McSweeney's #10, also known as McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales.
• "There Are Some Things He Should Keep to Himself," an original piece.
• "When They Learned to Yelp," an original piece.
• "After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned," a story originally published in the anthology Speaking with the Angel.

The ISBN of the hardback first edition is (ISBN 1-932416-13-7). The cover is ornately debossed with a hippogriff.