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Award-winning features writer and non-fiction book reviewer, writing for @NewStatesman, @thetimes and @guardian
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Dave Eggers: ‘Once you have a machine think and write for you, you’re cooked as a species’

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By Sophie McBain Verified
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‘We’re in such a comical place right now’ … Dave Eggers.Photograph: Benedict Evans/The Guardian (Photograph: Benedict Evans/The Guardian) At Dave Eggers’s suggestion, we’re starting the interview by life drawing together. The novelist dropped out of art school but has been drawing for decades, and his new book is set in the art world. Prudence, our model, stands before us with her palms open, nude but for a pair of black knee-high socks. This, unsurprisingly, is an interview first for me.
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Dave Eggers: ‘Once you have a machine think and write for you, you’re cooked as a species’

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By Sophie McBain Verified
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At Dave Eggers’s suggestion, we’re starting the interview by life drawing together. The novelist dropped out of art school but has been drawing for decades, and his new book is set in the art world. Prudence, our model, stands before us with her palms open, nude but for a pair of black knee-high socks. This, unsurprisingly, is an interview first for me. Eggers shows me how to hold my pencil at arm’s length and use my thumb to measure Prudence’s proportions.
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‘Have you ever been around someone you just know is evil?’ Melinda French Gates on meeting Jeffrey Epstein, giving away billions, and her post-divorce peace

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By Sophie McBain Verified
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Melinda French Gates has entered a new phase of life, and it is "beautiful", she says. It is five years since her painful, public divorce from the Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and two years since she stepped down from their charity, the Gates Foundation, to focus her full attention on Pivotal, the philanthropic organisation she founded in 2015 to promote women's empowerment.
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