The Best of McSweeneys

ISBN 10: 1938073592 / ISBN 13: 9781938073595

Published by McSweeney's, 2013

About this Item

624 pp. SIGNED by numerous contributors. Crisp edition, entirely sound. Fifteenth anniversary commemoration collection from journal. Includes substantial section of comic-style illustrations, as well as publication-typical playful typographic idiosyncracies.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Best of McSweeneys
• Publisher: McSweeney's
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1938073592
• ISBN 13: 9781938073595
• Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
• Condition: VERY GOOD
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 64 ounces
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

To commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the journal called ?a key barometer of the literary climate” by The New York Times and twice honored with a National Magazine Award for fiction, here is The Best of McSweeney’s?a comprehensive collection of the most remarkable work from a remarkable magazine. Drawing on the full range of the journal thus far?from the very earliest volumes to our groundbreaking, Chris Ware?edited graphic novel issue to our most popular project yet, the full-on Sunday-newspaper issue known as San Francisco Panorama, The Best of McSweeney’s is an essential retrospective of recent literary history. With full-color contributions from some of the pioneering artists and illustrators featured in our pages over the years (Marcel Dzama, Art Spiegelman, and many more) and a breathtaking array of first-rate fiction (and some incredible nonfiction, too), this is a book to be pored over, and lasting proof that the contemporary short story is as vital as ever.

About the Author

McSweeney’s began in 1998 as a literary journal that published only works rejected by other magazines. That rule was soon abandoned, and since then McSweeney’s has attracted work from some of the finest writers in the country, including Denis Johnson, Jonathan Franzen, William T. Vollmann, Rick Moody, Joyce Carol Oates, Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Chabon, Ben Marcus, Susan Straight, Roddy Doyle, T. C. Boyle, Steven Millhauser, Gabe Hudson, Robert Coover, Ann Beattie, and many others. At the same time, the journal continues to be a major home for new and unpublished writers; we’re committed to publishing exciting fiction regardless of pedigree.