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Title Author Publisher Price
McSweeney's 21 Roddy Doyle, Stephen Elliott, Peter Orner, Joyce Carol Oates and more ... McSweeney's $14.40
($16.00 list)
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Read more and comment... 		McSweeney's sez: "With work by Roddy Doyle, Stephen Elliott, Peter Orner, Joyce Carol Oates, Yannick Murphy, and Miranda July, as well as the triumphant return of Arthur Bradford and stories concerning fistfighting Mormons, New Zealand police malfeasance, and a man named Trang, and with all of those works interspersed with heartfelt letters to Ray Charles and storyboards by some of the finest pen-and-ink artists of our day, our twenty-first issue is sure to be one of our best assemblages yet."
McSweeney's 16 Roddy Doyle, Dave Eggers, Denis Johnson, Robert Coover and more ... McSweeney's $21.60
($24.00 list)
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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 15 Steven Millhauser, Roddy Doyle McSweeney's $20.00
($24.00 list)
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Read more and comment... 		official hype - "Issue 15 is also known as The "Icelandic Issue". Printed in Iceland, half of the stories are written by actual Icelandic writers. And the kicker? It also comes with a Icelandic tabloid mini-mag filled with words you won't understand and images that speak for themselves.  Included in this issue are new stories from Roddy Doyle, Steven Millhauser and many exceptional newcomers.  Hardcover, bound in fine cloth. This issue makes us want to sit by a fireplace on a snowy day."
McSweeney's 23 Chris Bachelder, Ann Beattie, Roddy Doyle, Clancy Martin and more ... McSweeney's $17.77
($20.00 list)
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Read more and comment... 		Well, what do you know?  This time around, McSweeney's is a plain old book, containing a nice and neat ten tales by writers known -- such as Chris Bachelder, Ann Beattie and Roddy Doyle -- and, at least to us, unknown -- such as Clancy Martin, Christopher Stokes and Wells Tower.  Well, upon closer inspection, we notice that the cover folds out into a gigantic poster on one side, while on the other is a brain scrambling piece that involves a complicated division of two-dimensional space that is too elaborate to elaborate on here.  And, oh wait, what have we here attached to the inside back cover?  It's a special "trial-size edition" of Comedy by Numbers, a "new manual (that) makes the secrets of comedy accessible..." It is to laugh.
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.)
McSweeney's 33: San Francisco Panorama Geoff Nicholson, J.G. Ballard, Roddy Doyle, Deb Olin Unferth and more ... McSweeney's $14.44
($16.00 list)
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Read more and comment... 		I'm sure that we were not alone in thinking that the last few issues of McSweeney's had not been living up to the high design and content standards that they had set for themselves over the years.  We were beginning to wonder if, perhaps, the enterprise had run out of gas, and that Eggers & Co. had set their priorities elsewhere.  And while the latter may very well have been the case, we are happy to announce that, with, at least, it's thirty-third issue, all those concerned have put McSweeney's back front and center.  This is a knock-your-socks-off issue that asks – and boldly answers – the question, "What's so good about a newspaper, anyway?"  McSweeney's 33 is, more or less, a what-if? fantasy of what the San Francisco Sunday paper could be like in an alternative universe where profit-driven capitalism did not govern all enterprise-related decisions.  Originally published and distributed in San Franciso on December 9, 2009, it is now available to the rest of us.  More or less patterned after the Sunday New York Times (only bigger – a whoppin' 15" x 22"!), this hefty newspaper edition of McSweeney's is filled with engaging, well written articles on all sorts of topics and at all lengths from (rough guess, here) 100 to 10,000 words.  The graphics department has taken full advantage of the oversize "canvas" offered by these large broadsheets, and the printing and paper are excellent for full visual impact.  There is a 96-page book review insert printed on extra high quality paper stock that is not only filled with reviews but also:  interviews with the likes of Junot Diaz, Miranda July and James Franco;  new, original short works of fiction by George Saunders, Deb Olin Unferth, Roddy Doyle and others; a gigantic feature on the work of J.G. Ballard by Geoff Nicholson; pages of letters; and more!  There is an oversize 112-page magazine insert that is printed on an even higher grade of paper stock that is overflowing with in-depth essays on all and sundry as well as columns by Michael Chabon, Chip Kidd and others.  And, of course, we have saved the best for last:  there is an honest-to-God, good-old-fashioned, 16-page, full color comics section, filled with all new work by Dan Clowes, Chris Ware, Alison Bechdel, Adrian Tomine, and plenty more.  And, as if this weren't already enough, there's a bonus Acme Novelty Library, Rocket Sam cut-out by Chris Ware to while away a lazy Sunday afternoon.  Don't miss this vibrant, full-blooded testimonial to the power and glory of newspapers.