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One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box Dave Eggers, Sarah Manguso, Deb Olin Unferth $21.25
($25.00 list)

Read more and comment... 		• How the Water Feels to the Fishes • Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape • Minor Robberies These three hardcover books are snugly enclosed together in an illustrated (by Jacob Magraw-Mickelson) slipcase and bring you together the 145 short (generally very short) stories of the overarching title; from the fine folks at McSweeney's.
Surviving Justice: America's Wrongly Convicted and Exonerated Dave Eggers, Lola Vollen McSweeney's $12.00
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Read more and comment... 		This is the first volume in the Voice of Witness series, which will "allow those most affected by social injustice to speak for themselves" by providing oral histories to "illustrate human rights crises through the voice of its victms."  Surviving Justice presents the cases of thirtreen men and women who were unjustly incarcerated for crimes they did not commit and who managed through a combination of lengthly struggle, outside legal assistance and/or sheer luck to prove their innocence and finally be realeased from prison -- usually after ten years or more served.
The Better of McSweeneys Jonathan Lethem, Glen David Gold, A. M. Homes, David Foster Wallace and more ... McSweeney's $15.75
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Read more and comment... 		This is a jam-packed assortment culled from the now out-of-print first ten issues of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern.  Editor David Eggers has written plenty of fresh commentary specifically for this volume, so even if you are one of the tiny minority who already posses the first ten issues of MQC, you still might want to consider this one.  Authors whose work grace this collection include Jonathan Lethem, Glen David Gold, A. M. Homes, David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers, Amanda Davis, George Saunders, Paul Collins, and William T. Vollmann, as well as many talented newcomers.
McSweeney's #27 Leonard Cohen, Paul Hornschemeier, Jeffrey Brown, David Shrigley and more ... McSweeney's $21.50
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Read more and comment... 		This time out we have a tripartate, slipcased edition, thus:  a 196-page softcover fiction anthology featuring the writings of Larry Smith, Jim Shepard, Ashlee Adams, Liz Mandrell, Mikel Jollett and Stephen King that sports a swell, architectronic wraparound cover and interior illustrations by Scott Teplin; a 72-page horizontally formatted collection of "Art" cartoons by the likes of Jean Michel Basquiat, Kenneth Koch, Raymond Pettibone, David Shrigley, Jeffrey Brown, Paul Hornschemeier, Leonard Cohen, David Mamet and others, in full color and black & white;  an 80-page sketchbook executed between March 12 and May 26, 2007 by Art Spiegelman, titled "Autophobia," which Spiegelman created to overcome his "fear of drawing."
The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers Vendela Vida, Dave Eggers, Adam Thirlwell, Tom Stoppard and more ... McSweeney's $15.75
($18.00 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Twenty-Three conversations and correspndences between a host of today's most engaging authors, including Zadie Smith talking with Ian McEwan; Jonathan Lethem talking with Paul Auster; Adam Thirlwell talking with Tom Stoppard; Susan Choi talking with Francisco Goldman; ZZ Packer talking with Edward P. Jones; Dave Eggers talking with David Foster Wallace; Julie Orringer talking with Tobias Wolff; and Ben Marcus talking with George Saunders.  An excellent book for the morning commute and/or the lunchroom. 
McSweeney's 28 Danica Novgorodoff, Nathan Englander, Ryan Bodinot, Dave Eggers and more ... McSweeney's $21.50
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Read more and comment... 		This time around, Mcsweeney's presents us with "eight individual books, fully illustrated, which resurrect and reinvent the art of the fable -- simple, suprising, and morally direct.  More or less."  Each of these books is a snappy little hardcover, the cover illustration of each of which join together (and are held together in this cleverly designed package) to form two large painted images by Danica Novgorodoff.   The books are:  Poor Little Egg-Boy Hatched in a Shul by Nathan Englander, illustrated by Jordan Isip; The Book and the Girl by Brian Evenson, illustrated by Philip Fivel Nessen; The Guy Who Kept Meeting Himself by Ryan Boudinot, illustrated by Genevieve Sims; LaKeisha and the Dirty Girl by Tayari Jones, illustrated by Morgan Elliot; The Thousands by Daniel Alarcón, illustrated by Jordan Awan; Two Free Men by Sheila Heti, illustrated by Liz Lee; Virgil Walker by Arthur Bradford, illustrated by Jon Adams; and The Box by Sarah Manguso, illustrated by Louie Cordero.
McSweeney's 16 Roddy Doyle, Dave Eggers, Denis Johnson, Robert Coover and more ... McSweeney's $21.60
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Read more and comment... 		This is one of the craziest designs yet -- a sort of cloth covered fold-out folio in which the contents are then inserted.  You'll have to see it for yourself to understand.  Here's what McSweeney's has to say:  "Issue 16 presents new stories from McSweeney's regulars like Roddy Doyle and Denis Johnson, and exploits a never-before-seen tripartite format to bring you a hilarious Ann Beattie novella and a special deck-of-cards story from Robert Coover, one of the great masters of American experimental fiction. This issue uses more cloth than any issue to date. Also, it comes with a comb."
McSweeney's 18 Edmund White, Joyce Carol Oates, Dave Eggers, Roddy Doyle and more ... McSweeney's $19.80
($22.00 list)
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Read more and comment... 		It's here.  Here's what they have to say about it:  "Even beyond Edmund White's youthful hustler, Joyce Carol Oates's fatherly killer, and Roddy Doyle's Rwandan refugee, Issue 18 will not stay at home. Bears, clouds, assassinations, and demons lurk in a high-concept labyrinth of stories."  In addition, this issue comes complete with a deluxe slip-cased edition of the first issue of Wholphin, the new DVD quarterly, about which you can learn more at http://www.wholphindvd.com/.  (Please note that this is the same issue of Wholphin -- albeit with deluxe packaging --  that comes with Believer #30 -- see below.)
Zeitoun Dave Eggers McSweeney's $20.00
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Zeitoun
Read more and comment... 		"Zeitoun is an instant American classic carved from fierce eloquence and a haunting moral sensibility.  By wrestling with the demons of xenophobia and racial profiling that converged in the swirling vortex of Hurricane Katrina and post-9/11 America, Eggers lets loose the angels of wisdom and courage that hover over the lives of the beleaguered, but miraculously unbroken, Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun.  This is a major work full of fire and wit by one of our most important writers." – Michael Eric Dyson
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010 George Saunders, Sherman Alexie, Lilli Carre, David Sedaris and more ... Houghton Mifflin $7.47
($14.95 list)
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Read more and comment... 		And, while we're at it, we should bring to your attnetion the fact that, as always, we feel comfortable in recommending this year's installment of Best American Nonrequired Reading to Copacetic customers everywhere.  There's something for everyone here, and quite a lot for most, from Lilli Carré's full color career high (so far), "The Carnival," to Sherman Alexie's "War Dances," to the relentless reportage of George Saunders in "Tent City, U.S.A.," and much more – including over a dozen Best American lists, among which we will bring your attention to "Fast-Food Related Crimes" and "Gun Magazine Headlines."  And, just for the record, we are also stocking The Best American Short Stories 2010, edited by Richard RUsso and The Best American Essays 2010, edited by Christopher Hitchens, all at the same price point.
Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 Jonathan Franzen, Dave Eggers, Marjane Satrapi Houghton Mifflin $4.95
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Read more and comment... 		Jonathan Franzen on David Foster Wallace.  The awesome Million Year Boom by Tom Kaczynski.  Another great comic by Emile Bravo.  Stories by Rivka Galchen and others.  Denis Johnson on Iraq.  Best of lists.  All for a crazy great price.  Don't pass this up!