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Loading... McSweeney's Issue 6: We Now Know Who (edition 2001)by Dave Eggers (Editor), Breyten Breytenbach (Contributor), Karl Haendel (Contributor), Steve Featherstone (Contributor), Ian Frazier (Contributor) — 28 more, Walter Koenigstein (Contributor), Lawrence Weschler (Contributor), Sean Wilsey (Contributor), Amy Sillman (Contributor), Zadie Smith (Contributor), Candy Jernigan (Contributor), Jeri Coppola (Contributor), Roy Kesey (Contributor), Gina O'Mara (Contributor), Ann Cummins (Contributor), Walker Evans (Contributor), Mia Fineman (Contributor), Barry Blitt (Contributor), John Warner (Contributor), Lydia Davis (Contributor), Chris Ware (Contributor), Saskia Hamilton (Contributor), Samantha Hunt (Contributor), Dave Ford (Contributor), Mark O'Donnell (Contributor), Richard Erickson (Contributor), Arthur Bradford (Contributor), Sheila Heti (Contributor), Fritz Swanson (Contributor), Judy Budnitz (Contributor), Tommy Wallach (Contributor), Matt Fagan (Contributor), Ad Reinhardt (Contributor)
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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 idea for this issue is really interesting: A collection of short stories and works of art, each with a companion piece of music on the accompanying CD by They Might Be Giants, with contributions by others including Philip Glass and Mike Doughty. Unfortunately, most of the art included is not very good, but some of it is at least amusing---and the short stories are pretty good for the most part. Likewise for the music, the tracks that accompany the art selections are mostly just okay, but the ones that go along with the stories are generally more substantial, longer and better. no reviews | add a review
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There's still a great deal of artwork in this issue along with pieces analyzing art or artists. Like many of the early McSweeney's, the quality of the work is wildly uneven. The fiction pieces are all very short and the range of topics is huge and unfocused. For the most part, TMBG's music is well-suited to this funhouse ride.
This is a very ambitious issue and I can't say they completely pulled it off. My favorite contributions were
"The Girl with Bangs" by Zadie Smith with a terrific full-length song "Bangs" by TMBG
"Excerpt from 99 Blue Rocks" by Candy Jernigan, which includes about 10 lovely drawings of rocks done by the late Jernigan and is scored by her partner Philip Glass's composition, "Modern Love Waltz"
"Eulogy for Saul Steinberg" by his friend Ian Frazier, a sweet reminiscence of the artist with several of his drawings and a nice song, "West Virginia", by John Linnell of TMBG. ( )