How We Are Hungry

{{Short description|Book by Dave Eggers}} {{One source|date=December 2015}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox book| | name = How We Are Hungry | image = How We Are Hungry.jpg | caption = | author = Dave Eggers | country = | language = English | genre = Psychological fiction, American fiction | publisher = McSweeney's | published = 2004 | media_type = Print | pages = | isbn = 1-932416-13-7 | isbn_note = (hardcover first edition) | oclc = 812881098 }} '''''How We Are Hungry''''' is a collection of short stories by Dave Eggers, originally published by McSweeney's in 2004.<ref>{{cite web | title=How We Are Hungry | work=the McSweeney's Store | url=http://store.mcsweeneys.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/catalog.detail/object_id/7afd5f72-97a1-45c0-909c-70d110dab4ce/HowWeAreHungry.cfm | accessdate=2008-02-20 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080111183248/http://store.mcsweeneys.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/catalog.detail/object_id/7afd5f72-97a1-45c0-909c-70d110dab4ce/HowWeAreHungry.cfm | archivedate=2008-01-11 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=How we are hungry {{!}} WorldCat.org |oclc=812881098 |language=en}}</ref> The hardcover first edition includes the following pieces:

==Stories== *"Another" *"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," originally published in ''The Guardian'' *"The Only Meaning of the Oil-wet Water," originally published in ''Zoetrope All-Story'' *"On Wanting to Have Three Walls up Before She Gets Home," originally published in ''The Guardian'' *"Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance," originally published in ''The New Yorker'' in a slightly different form as "Measuring the Jump" *"She Waits, Seething, Blooming," originally published in ''The Guardian'' *"Quiet" *"Your Mother and I," originally published in ''h2s04'' *"Naveed," originally published in ''The Guardian'' *"Notes for a Story of a Man Who Will Not Die Alone," originally published in another form in ''Ninth Letter'' *"About the Man Who Began Flying After Meeting Her," originally published in ''The Guardian'' *"Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly," originally published in ''McSweeney's #10'' *"There Are Some Things He Should Keep to Himself" *"When They Learned to Yelp" *"After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned," originally published in ''Speaking with the Angel''

==Publication details== "There Are Some Things He Should Keep to Himself," which consists solely of five blank pages, is not included in the paperback edition.

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