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McSweeney's Issue 20 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's Issue 20 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's has grown to be one of the country's best and largest-circulation literary journals. The journal is committed to finding new voices, publishing work of gifted but underappreciated writers, and pushing the literary form forward at all times. We have no idea what Issue 20 will be.

McSweeney's Issue 19 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's Issue 19 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney’s began in 1998 as a literary journal that published only works rejected from other magazines. Today, it has grown to be one of the country’s best and largest-circulation literary journals, attracting works from some of the finest writers in the country, including David Foster Wallace, Ann Cummins, Rick Moody, Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Lethem, William T. Vollmann, and many new talents. McSweeney's ... (more)

McSweeney's Issue 18 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's Issue 18 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's began in 1998 as a literary journal, edited by Dave Eggers, which published only works rejected from other magazines. But after the first issue, the journal began to publish pieces written with McSweeney's in mind. Soon after, McSweeney's attracted works from some of the finest writers in the country, including David Foster Wallace, Ann Cummins, Rick Moody, Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Lethem, William... (more)

McSweeney's Issue 21 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's Issue 21 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney’s began in 1998 as a literary journal that published only works rejected from other magazines. Today, it attracts work from some of the finest writers in the country, including David Foster Wallace, Ann Cummins, Rick Moody, and William T. Vollmann. McSweeney's Issue 21 includes work by Roddy Doyle and Stephen Elliott, as well as the triumphant return of Arthur Bradford. There's also new stories... (more)

McSweeney's Issue 22

McSweeney's Issue 22 is a three-part exercise in inspired restriction — of author, of content, and of form. In section one, poets (yes — poets!) including Mary Karr, Denis Johnson, C. D. Wright, and D. C. Berman initiate poet-chains, picking a poem of their own and one by another poet. The next poet will then do the same, and then again, and again, and so on. In section two, Fitzgerald (yes — F. Scott... (more)

McSweeney's Issue 17 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's Issue 17 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney’s began in 1998 as a literary journal, edited by Dave Eggers, that published only works rejected from other magazines. But after the first issue, the journal began to publish pieces written with McSweeney’s in mind. Soon after, McSweeney’s attracted works from some of the finest writers in the country, including David Foster Wallace, Ann Cummins, Rick Moody, Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Lethem, William... (more)

McSweeney's Issue 23

McSweeney's Issue 23 includes ten stories from ten excellent writers, including Wells Tower, Chris Bachelder, Ann Beattie, and other agile talents bringing visions of the Dallas/Fort Worth fake-watch trade and Papua New Guinea in the 1960s. Every story gets its own front and back cover drawn, collaged, or embroidered by the polymathic Andrea Dezsö. The whole thing is wrapped in a jacket that unfolds into five... (more)

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 13 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 13 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13 is all comics. It is edited by Chris Ware (author of Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth), and features so many artists to know and love: R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, Lynda Barry, Los Bros Hernandez, Adrian Tomine, Julie Doucet, and on and on. The issue also includes essays from Michael Chabon, Ira Glass, John Updike, Chip Kidd, and others. A hardcover, clothbound... (more)

McSweeney's Issue 15 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's Issue 15 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's began in 1998 as a literary journal, edited by Dave Eggers, which published only works rejected from other magazines. But after the first issue, the journal began to publish pieces written with McSweeney's in mind. Soon after, McSweeney's attracted works from some of the finest writers in the country, including David Foster Wallace, Ann Cummins, Rick Moody, Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Lethem, William T.... (more)

McSweeney's 7 (McSweeney's Quarterly, Volume 7)

The seventh edition of this American literary quarterly includes stories by nine authors: Kevin Brockmeier, Michael Chabon, Ann Cummins, Courtney Eldridge, A.M. Homes, Heidi Julavits, JT Leroy, Allan Seager, William T. Vollmann, and Chris Ware. Each story is published separately in booklet form, held together by a blue and grey hardboard clamshell. McSweeney's features some of the most innovative writing on the... (more)

McSweeney's Issue No. 9 (McSweeney's Issue, Volume 9)

McSweeney's Issue 24

by Dave Eggers, Shann Ray, Rachel Sherman, Andy Lamey, Wythe Marschall, Ben Ehrenreich, Steve Stiefel, John Henry Fleming, Andrea Deszo, Champ Simpson

With a special section on Donald Barthelme, including remembrances from Ann Beattie, David Gates, and Oscar Hijuelos, and some of Barthelme’s barely published and never-collected early work, and a highly theoretical but potentially amazing Z-binding that we can’t describe very well here, or even to each other, McSweeney’s 24 will never be mistaken for anything else. (Except possibly the June 1978 issue of... (more)

McSweeney's Issue 11 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's Issue 11 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

Issue 11 will feature contributions from many of your favorite McSweeney’s contributors, as well as a chorus of new voices. This issue returns to the classic McSweeney’s format last seen in Issue 5, complete with a letters section and an interview with a prominent scientist, in this case with those investigating the recently found collossal squid, the largest known to man. Aside from that, Issue 11 features... (more)

McSweeney's Issues One Through Three

Dave Eggers launched Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern in 1998 as an outlet for writings by himself and his friends, such as David Foster Wallace, who had been rejected by other, established journals. Eggers’ irreverent approach included a pioneering design that incorporated chapbooks, drawings, and all manner of cultural confetti previously unseen in the lit-mag format. McSweeney’s became an instant hit,... (more)

McSweeney's Issue 31 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's Issue 31 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern)

Barthelme said that "The Novel of the Soil is dead, as are Expressionism, Impressionism, Futurism, Imagism, Vorticism, Regionalism, Realism, the Kitchen Sink School of Drama, the Theatre of the Absurd, the Theatre of Cruelty, Black Humor, and Gongorism." But he left out, pointedly, the Biji, the Nivola, the Graustarkian Romance, the Consuetudinary, the Whore's Dialogue, the Fornaldarsaga, and the eighties, which... (more)

Fourteen Hills: The San Francisco State University Review Vol.13 No.1Maria Suarez; Ed.

Fourteen Hills: The San Francisco State University Review Vol.13 No.1

by Maria Suarez; Ed.

Literary Journal featuring poetry, prose, and art by Karen Carissimo, Jeffrey Douglas, Deborah Eshenour, Keya Mitra, Matthew Modica, Raymond Nolan, Miriam Parker, Andrew Touhy, Kirsten Andersen, Andrea Baker, Jasper Bernes, e. bojnowski, Claudia Burbank, Lindsay Faber Chiat, Adam O. Davis, Bronwen Densmore, Linh Dinh, Jacob I. Evans, K. Goodkin, Noah Eli Gordon, Mercedes Lawry, Joanne Lowery, Farah Marklevits,... (more)

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