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McSweeney's 50
Title
McSweeney's 50.
ISBN
9781940450100
1940450101
Publication
San Francisco, California : McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, [2017]
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Za Zm45 50: Dust jacket.
Notes
Cover title.
Bugflowers by Tucker Nichols on back of book jacket (23 x 51 cm, unfolded to 65 x 51 cm poster).
Summary
To celebrate our 50th issue, we've put together a guaranteed showstopper, with stories, essays, treatises, manifestos, letters, comics, and illustrated travel diaries from fifty different contributors. There's stunning new work from writers who we've long published--Jonathan Lethem, Lydia Davis, Sherman Alexie, Etgar Keret, Sheila Heti, Diane Williams, Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman, Steven Millhauser (among many others)--and fantastic new writing from authors who we've long admired, including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Thomas McGuane, Kevin Young, and Carrie Brownstein. The physical object that will contain all this great work will be a sturdy and beautiful hardcover book--something to behold and something to keep. Plus, the dust jacket folds out into a poster by Tucker Nichols that can gaze down at you from above your breakfast nook, bathtub, gift-wrapping station, or wherever you'd like to be reminded of 50 glorious issues of McSweeney's Quarterly.--website.
Variant and related titles
McSweeney's fifty
McSweeney's issue 50
McSweeney's quarterly concern. No. 50
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2018
Series
McSweeney's ; 50
Contents
Letters / Zan Khalid, Sarah Vowell, Patton Oswalt, Sean Wilsey, Dan Morey, Eli Horowitz, John Hodgman, John Moe, Aparna Nancherla
One man was so beautiful ... / Sarah Manguso
At night / Etgar Keret
Details / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Thank you for your patience / Steven Millhauser
Nancy, all too Nancy / Jonathan Lethem
To whom ['whom' is lined out] Mr. Julius Craab it may concern / Ismet Prcic
September 14 / Heidi Julavits
Fear of loos tongue ; Opportunistic seed ; Two mayors and a word ; Philosophical question posed by stranger in pamphlet / Lydia Davis
Deliver me / Sherman Alexie
The deaths of Henry King / Jesse Ball & Brian Evenson ; (illustrations by Lilli Carré)
Internal life / Corinna Vallianatos
The lace shirt / Carrie Brownstein
Little Big Horn / Thomas McGuane
The sure cure / Diane Williams
Ten Commandments / Kevin Young
Jordan Teller / Sheila Heit
But don't worry / Matthew Sharpe
Puppet master made the puppets / Vauhini Vara
Hero / Jeff Parker
Self-portrait in an open medicine cabinet / Andrew Leland
On screen / Kevin Moffett
Forty-two reasons your girlfriend works for the FBI, CIA, NSA, ICE, S.H.I.E.L.D., Fringe Division, Men in Black, or Cylon Overlords / Haris A. Durrani
Em Jay / Lucy Corin
Orange Julius / Kristen Iskandrian
Secret room / Benjamin Percy
Please fund me / Rebecca Curtis
The truth / Carson Mell
Endnotes / Valeria Luiselli
The dispersing journeys / Eduargo Berti
(Final appendix)
Humor : Feel free to post these office signs in your workplace / Dan Kennedy ; Caravaggio apologizes for the low lighting / James Folta ; The love song of J. Alfred Trump / Wendy Molyneux ; The six-word sequels to "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" / Keaton Patti ; Geno knows I've got the goods / Sarah Walker
Art & comics : Before I met you / Sophia Foster-Dimino ; New sport / Jesse Jacobs ; Some drawings in Japan / Jason Polan ; Bugflowers / Tucker Nichols
Excerpt : Flowers of anti-martyrdom / Dorian Geisler.
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