What Is the What writes: "Over the course of many years, Dave and I have collaborated to tell my story... I told [him] what I knew and what I could remember, and from that material he created this work of art." The book is typical of Eggers' style: blending non-fictional and fictional elements into a non-fiction novel or memoir. By classifying the book a novel, Eggers says, he freed himself to re-create conversations, streamline complex relationships, add relevant detail and manipulate time and space in helpful ways—all while maintaining the essential truthfulness of the storytelling. However, not all critics were impressed. Lee Siegel sees
Suffer This: A Compilation of Boston's Backwash up all month, crank up Suffer This...Jerkwater's cover of 'The Rose'...could be the soundtrack to Sid Vicious' eulogy"" -- "Boston Phoenix" ""Suffer This employs six bands for the purpose of exposing the teeming, festering underworld of the Boston music scene, and rubbing all its glorious excess in your face."" -- "CMJ New Music Report" Sean Slade - Engineer Suffer This: A Compilation of Boston's Backwash Suffer This: A Compilation of Boston's Backwash was a collaboration of five boston punk\post punk\noise rock bands in the late 1980s. The five bands include The Five, Hullabaloo, Slaughter Shack, Hectic Heyday and Feeding Frenzy.