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Every fourth page is a full-color figurative painting, each one by an excellent artist. The other pages have fiction on them, with only one color but lots of words including punched, pants, and Puerto -- that's actually just the first page. After that, there are stories exploring animal-plant romances, psycho librarians, and passive-agressive ventriloquism. No fewer than two dictators appear as protagonists. And after all that, loosely glued to the inside back cover, there5;s a show more fifty-page booklet containing a harrowing excerpt from Chris Adrian5;s The Children5;s Hospital.. This is a handsome, handsome issue, brimming with fulfilling things. show lessTags
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A beautiful collection of short stories, with this edition featuring a modern painting on every fourth page. You’re never really sure what to expect in the paintings or the stories, and there were some real gems here. It’s hard to call out a favorite with as many hits as there were, but I found the four-page story “Terminal” by J. Erin Sweeney profound and it stuck with me. The quality of the writing and editing had me smiling throughout, and I didn’t want the collection to end.
A beautiful hardcover edition with a cover illustration of colorful organic shapes and growths that playfully obscure the introduction text. The stories are punctuated by full-color, full-page artwork every fourth page. I can't say I remember the stories within this volume, but it included an additional booklet containing an excerpt of Chris Adrian's forthcoming novel, "The Children's Hospital." I was so entranced by the story of doctors, staff, parents, angels (yes, angels), and patients trapped in a children's hospital during an apocalyptic, rapture-like event that I bought the book when it was published.
This one is beautiful. Lots of bright artwork, really nicely designed. The stories were meh, but the volume is a pleasure.
The art mix feels wrong.
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Dave Eggers was born on March 12th, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts. His family moved to Lake Forest, Illinois when he was a child. Eggers attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, until his parents' deaths in 1991 and 1992. The loss left him responsible for his eight-year-old brother and later became the inspiration for his highly show more acclaimed memoir "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius". Published in 2000, the memoir was nominated for a nonfiction Pulitzer the following year. Eggers edits the popular "The Best American Nonrequired Reading" published annually. In 1998, he founded the independent publishing house, McSweeney's which publishes a variety of magazines and literary journals. Eggers has also opened several nonprofit writing centers for high school students across the United States. Eggers has written several novels and his title, A Hologram for the King, was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. His most recent work of fiction, entitled The Circle, was published in 2013. His recent nonfiction books are The Monk of Mokha (January 2018) and What Can a Citizen Do? (Illustrated by Shawn Harris)(September 2018). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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