The Eyes and The Impossible

Dave Eggers is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of a number of books including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, The Museum of Rain, and the #1 US bestselling A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. He is the cofounder of 826 National, a network of youth writing centers, and Art + Water, a nonprofit visual art hub on San Francisco’s waterfront. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Eggers has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is the recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the American Book Award. In 2024, his New York Times bestseller The Eyes and the Impossible was awarded the Newbery Medal. Eggers lives in Northern California with his family and his latest book is Contrapposto (2026).

Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, author and film director. He has his breakthrough film performance in Dead Poets Society. Hawke has received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Training Day and Boyhood and two for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing Before Sunset and Before Midnight. He is also the author of titles such as Rules for a Knight, The Hottest State and Ash Wednesday.