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McSweeney's Issue 67 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (edition 2022)

by Claire Boyle (Editor), Dave Eggers (Editor)

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Fasten your seatbelts. Sound the alarm. Hot on the heels of the best-selling McSweeney's 66 comes the latest issue of our nine-time National Magazine Award-finalist McSweeney's Quarterly. Prepare yourself for McSweeney's Issue 67. Tear open this thrilling three-volume issue to find original stories by John Brandon and Eider Rodríguez; letters from Shelly Oria and Diana Spechler; a collection of poems by bus driver Sasha Pearl, composed on her lunch breaks (and introduced by Samantha Hunt); and so much more, all inside a series of interconnected cover illustrations by French artist Yann Le Bec that culminate in a standalone illustrated booklet. Steady yourself, readers--the time has come for another unforgettable issue of McSweeney's Quarterly. A three-time winner and nine-time finalist of the National Magazine Award for fiction, each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned (there have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an issue with two spines, an issue with a magnetic binding, an issue that looked like a bundle of junk mail, and an issue that looked like a sweaty human head), but always brings you the very best in new literary fiction.… (more)
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Title:McSweeney's Issue 67 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
Authors:Claire Boyle (Editor)
Other authors:Dave Eggers (Editor)
Info:McSweeney's Publishing (2022)
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There are just five short stories that make up issue 67 from McSweeney’s, and while there were no homeruns, all of them were solid reading. The three I liked most were Khadijah Number Two, by Hilal Isler, Vintage, by John Brandon, and What Was Expected of Me, by Eider Rodriguez. I also liked the letter to the editor from writer Leslie Ylinen, and count it among the highlights. Interesting in a Paterson sort of way was the separate booklet Bus Poems and II Plus, by Sasha Pearl, a truck driver by day, but it never rose to the level of the poems of the fictional bus driver and artistry in that movie. Not worthy of separate booklet was the graphic art piece Picnic, by Yann Le Bec. ( )
1 vote gbill | Dec 6, 2022 |
The issue is in the form of three softcover booklets. The main book contains the Letters section and five stories. The second booklet is a graphic story about a couple who picnic at night. The third book is called Bus Poems and it's an extraordinary set of poems by an artist who primarily makes her living driving school buses. She wrote them during her midday breaks between dropping kids off and returning them home.

I liked the stories save for one. They involve a love potion, the fountain of youth, the moral dilemmas of capitalism, and a young woman so unsure of herself she takes a job being the public persona of a best-selling author who wishes to remain unseen.

The star of this issue is Sasha Pearl's amazing Bus Poems. Both funny and depressing, these little sets of words capture the humanity and longing encountered in daily life. I'm not a poetry person at all, but I plan to pull this slim book off the shelf frequently to revisit these small scenes painted by words. ( )
  RobertOK | Nov 1, 2022 |
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Fasten your seatbelts. Sound the alarm. Hot on the heels of the best-selling McSweeney's 66 comes the latest issue of our nine-time National Magazine Award-finalist McSweeney's Quarterly. Prepare yourself for McSweeney's Issue 67. Tear open this thrilling three-volume issue to find original stories by John Brandon and Eider Rodríguez; letters from Shelly Oria and Diana Spechler; a collection of poems by bus driver Sasha Pearl, composed on her lunch breaks (and introduced by Samantha Hunt); and so much more, all inside a series of interconnected cover illustrations by French artist Yann Le Bec that culminate in a standalone illustrated booklet. Steady yourself, readers--the time has come for another unforgettable issue of McSweeney's Quarterly. A three-time winner and nine-time finalist of the National Magazine Award for fiction, each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned (there have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an issue with two spines, an issue with a magnetic binding, an issue that looked like a bundle of junk mail, and an issue that looked like a sweaty human head), but always brings you the very best in new literary fiction.

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