McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (10 books in series)
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review 1: McSweeney's 43 is another fantastic collection of short fiction and nonfiction. My favorite story from this collection was TC Boyle's "Burning Bright," a piece filled with foreboding and a slow-building dread. There's also a great essay by a young woman whose father was caught up...
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review 1: This is a collection of 'crime' stories from several Latin American countries. Few if any of the authors will be familiar to American readers, although a couple have novels translated into English (e.g. Alejandro Zambra). In several stories, it was hard to figure out what the cr...
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review 1: More a 2.5. I didn't really enjoy this issue. The non-fiction was interesting and provided an odd comparison between the uprising in Egypt and whatever the hell the doomed Occupy Protests achieved, mostly because there were essays about both.The fiction mostly wasn't my cup of ...
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review 1: A lot of good stuff -- a nice story from Colm Toibin, a great brief excerpt selected by Paul Collins, an interesting play by Wajahat Ali, and a creepy box, among other things -- but the five stars are for the Michael Chabon booklet.It's the first four chapters of Fountain City, t...
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review 1: McSweeney's 33 takes the form of a one shot newspaper called The San Francisco Panorama, about the size of a sunday paper. Besides the news section (brief), you get sections of investigative reportage, a sports section, a food section, a book review magazine, another magazine of ...
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review 1: I was intrigued by this issues concept: unearthing lost forms of literature and having modern writers create their own take on them. Unfortunately, the idea is stronger than the material, though much of this is borne of the constraints of the genres, not the quality of the writin...
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review 1: One of the coolest McSweeney's issues ever! Consists of eight small, thin hardback books--each a modern fable--that combine to make two paintings, one layered on top of the other, all held in place by little elastic bands. Very creative.It was a quick read, due to each book's sho...
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review 1: This is the first issue of McSweeney's to come out after Bush's presidency and the cover says it all - REJOICE! followed by "It's too late to screw it all up, right?" on the first page. Ah, McSweeney's. A note about the design because McSweeney's has a reputation for innovative d...
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review 1: The 42nd issue of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern is a fascinating experiment in the art of translation. Taking twelve pieces of short fiction and sending them through various translations (English to French to English to Chinese to English again - for one example) shows how much a...
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review 1: McSweeeney's Issue 38 like the other quarterlies is a really unique collection of short stories, essays, and usually other different types of story types. This issue contains a very special essay though titled The special Populations Unit: Arab Soldiers in Israel's Army by Chanan...