The Best of Mcsweeney's

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Call Number: 813.01 Be
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Anthology of fiction and nonfiction.
Selections originally published in McSweeney's quarterly, 1998-2013.
Includes index.
Introduction / Dave Eggers -- Letters from Mike Sacks [and fifteen others] -- The ceiling / Kevin Brockmeier -- New boy / Roddy Doyle -- Statistical abstract for my hometown, Spokane, Washington / Jess Walter -- Phantoms / Steven Millhauser -- Do not disturb / A.M. Homes -- from the Introduction to McSweeney's 13 / Chris Ware -- from Optic Nerve no. 9 / Adrian Tomine -- The Darlington Sundays / Daniel G. Clowes -- We'll sleep in my old room / Chris Ware -- The fixer / Joe Sacco -- A child's book of sickness and death / Chris Adrian -- They all stand up and sing / Julie Hecht -- Oral history with hiccups ; A mown lawn / Lydia Davis -- from the introduction to McSweeney's 10 / Michael Chabon -- The bees / Dan Chaon -- Retreat ; Retreat #2 / Wells Tower -- Mr. Squishy / David Foster Wallace -- Gentlemen, start your engines / Andrew Sean Greer -- Can a paper mill save a forest? / Nicholson Baker -- The girl with bangs / Zadie Smith -- Bored to death / Jonathan Ames -- There is no time in Waterloo / Sheila Heti -- The double zero / Rick Moody -- K is for fake / Jonathan Lethem -- Further interpretations of real-life events / Kevin Moffett -- Fire : the next sharp stick? / John Hodgman -- Benjamin Bucks / Jennie Erin Smith -- The unwritten stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald : introduction / Michelle Orange -- Peasley / Sam Lipstye -- Girl and giraffe / Lydia Millet -- Stay where you are / Deb Olin Unferth -- Hot pink / Adam Levin -- Four institutional monologues / George Saunders -- How to sell / Clancy Martin -- Fathers and daughters / Lawrence Wechsler -- (Notes from the Middle World) / Breten Breytenbach -- Two by two / Gunnhild Øhaug -- The bastard / Nyuol Lueth Tong -- S&J / Ellen Van Neerven-Currie -- The new, abridged dictionary of accepted ideas / Edwin Rozic and Aleksandar Hemon -- Twenty-minute stories / by Laird Hunt, Aleksandar Hemon, Glen David Gold, Peter Orner, and Jennifer Egan -- Pantoums / by Jennifer Michael Hecht, Bill Tarlin, and Ben Jahn.
"A comprehensive collection of some of the magazine's most remarkable work."--Back of jacket.

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