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Loading... McSweeney's Issue 35 (edition 2010)by Dave Eggers (Editor), Dan Kennedy (Contributor), Ellie Kemper (Contributor), Kent Woodyard (Contributor), Benjamin Cohen (Contributor) — 25 more, Sarah Walker (Contributor), Jim Stallard (Contributor), Pasha Malla (Contributor), Ben Greenman (Contributor), Teddy Wayne (Contributor), Leon Sanders (Contributor), Brian Beatty (Contributor), Mike Sacks (Contributor), Roddy Doyle (Contributor), Hilton Als (Contributor), Steven Millhauser (Contributor), Patrick Crerand (Contributor), Robert Barnes (Contributor), John Erik Riley (Contributor), Mikkel Bugge (Contributor), Hans Herbjørnsrud (Contributor), Johan Harstad (Contributor), Laila Stien (Contributor), Roy Jacobsen (Contributor), Tor Ulven (Contributor), Ingvar Ambjørnsen (Contributor), Gunnhild Øyehaug (Contributor), Frode Grytten (Contributor), Per Petterson (Contributor), Flamme Forlag (Contributor)
Work InformationMcSweeney's Issue 35 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) by Dave Eggers (Editor)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The newest installment in the McSweeney's canon (Issue 35) is a mostly-delightful hodgepodge. Robert Barnes' lunch-bag art is amusing, and the collection of Norwegian short stories and poems which make up about a third of the volume made for fascinating reading (prepare for snow, drugs, and mosquitoes). I quite enjoyed John Erik Riley and Mikkel Bugge's introduction to the Norwegian stories, in which the authors point out the strong government support writers receive for practicing their craft (allowing them to experiment "in ways that would otherwise be quite difficult in such a small market"). Roddy Doyle's opening story, "Local," about an unlikely candidate standing for political office in Ireland, was very nice; I skipped much of Hilton Als' "His Sister, Her Monologue" because it definitely wasn't up my alley. But the standout piece for me in this volume (by far) was Steven Millhauser's "Phantoms," which was scary and imaginative and completely unnerving (I should not have been reading it late at night). It alone is worth the price for the issue. http://philobiblos.blogspot.com/2010/08/book-review-mcsweeneys-vol-35.html no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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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. ( )