McSweeney's Issue 35 (Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern)

by Dave Eggers

Paperback, 2010

Status

Available

Call number

810

Publication

McSweeney's (2010), Paperback, 256 pages

Description

With tremendous new stories from Steven Millhauser and Roddy Doyle, an epic, genre-shattering novella from Hilton Als, and a really excellent special section on Norway's finest writers (featuring not just Per Petterson but also Kid Icarus and a woman named Blind Margjit)--along with, probably, correspondence from a man we can't yet name and an unbelievable disappearing-ink cover done by Jordan Crane--Issue 35 is a full-to-bursting edition in the tradition of the best ones we've ever done. For several hundred pages of unrivaled summer reading, this is your book.

User reviews

LibraryThing member RobertOK
One of the secrets of this issue is that the cover is thermo-active. If heated by the warmth of your finders, or leaving the book in a sunny spot (or running a hair dryer over it), the black portion of the cover changes to a body of water filled with koi and shadowy people caught in the current.
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The book also contains a little booklet with an advance peek at John Brandon's novel, "Citrus Country," published by McSweeney's.
I can't remember too much about this issue's content, except I did not enjoy Hilton Als' entry, a surprise after Egger's rave in his introduction. I very much enjoyed artist Robert Barnes's selection of brown paper bags bags he drew art on for his daughters to carry their lunch to school. Charming and sweet.
About 100 pages of the issue are devoted to fiction by Norwegian writers.
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Physical description

256 p.; 8.24 inches

ISBN

193478172X / 9781934781722

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