![]() ![]() The Every has grown to encompass all major search, social media and online shopping companies - think Facebook plus Google plus Amazon. But where “Circle” protagonist Mae Holland wanted to be the best employee possible, Delaney Wells gets herself hired by the company - renamed the Every after a megamerger with an e-commerce site - with the intention of taking it down from the inside. ![]() Set a decade or so after “The Circle,” “The Every” follows a young woman who goes to work at the same Bay Area corporation. Both aspects drive his follow-up, the near-future, nearly 600-page tech satire “ The Every,” out this week - only in independent bookstores. ![]() “I kept on noticing new developments in that realm that were both horrifying and comical,” he said. As life rolled on - four more novels a “Circle” film adaptation starring Emma Watson and Tom Hanks managing both indie publishing house McSweeney’s and the national tutoring network 826 - he continued to add to his stack of stories about technology’s excesses. After Dave Eggers published his 2013 Silicon Valley novel “ The Circle,” he still had an untapped pile of notes and articles about the way new technologies were changing our culture. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]()
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