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McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly brings you our 77th issue, a lovely back-to-basics paperback introducing our new editor: Rita Bullwinkel. Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely…
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McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly returns with our 73rd issue, a guest-edited, year-end themed issue, more details coming soon. Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned…
This June, triple National Magazine Award-winning McSweeney's Quarterly returns with its 71st issue, focussing on Horror.
Inside you'll find stories to delight and terrify, stories which challenge the notion of…
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Three-time National Magazine Award-winning McSweeney's Quarterly returns with its 70th edition, a paperback with a special die-cut cover design with French flaps.
Inside you'll find brilliant fiction - and two…
McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly starts 2024 in style with a thrilling back-to-basics paperback. Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned (there have been hardcovers and…
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McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly celebrates making it three quarters of the way to a hundred by looking forward. Guest-edited by Eli Horowitz, McSweeney's 75 is made up entirely…
Madison McSweeney
Dreaming of a week in paradise, Skylar and her friends book a stay at a beachside resort.
But Skylar's not having fun in the sun.
From the hotel balcony, she…
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Joyelle McSweeney
A record of daily bewilderments and accidental concessions to hope after a momentous loss, featuring John Waters, Divine, and Mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria (the 'Swan King'), in this…
A record of daily bewilderments and accidental concessions to hope after a momentous loss.
In this follow-up to her award-winning collection, Toxicon and Arachne, Joyelle McSweeney proposes a link between…
Lydia Rose McSweeney
I love God and I know he loves me, so why can't I move beyond my past? Many have psychological fractures due to abuse and trauma that can cause conflicts…
Chris Adrian
Because it seemed important to know in advance, we’ve dedicated Issue 32 to an investigation of the world to come–expect a set of near-future stories, written by the likes of…
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Mac (Tom) McSweeney
Today, devoted men of God are in high demand but low supply. Now, more than ever before, guidance is needed for men so they may revive their spirituality and be…
Spanning the franchise's entire history, from Sean Connery's iconic swagger to Daniel Craig's rougher, more visceral interpretation of the superspy, James Bond Will Return offers both academic readers and fans…
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This collection introduces Activity Theory to the current generation of theorists and researchers.
This book examines the ways in which sport for development and peace (SDP) offers an opportunity for entrepreneurship to take place through and within sport, and how innovation in the…
A new release in our popular Author-Illustrator Starter Kit series! Five premium-quality hardcover, unlined blank books in a hard slipcase. Each book is 32 pages, 4.5 square, and ready to…
Issue 16 presents new stories from McSweeney’s regulars like Roddy Doyle and Denis Johnson, and exploits a never-before-seen tripartite format to bring you a hilarious Ann Beattie novella and a…
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Do you find yourself awash in a sea of things to do for work, while the things you need to do for your personal life nip at your heels like…
This collection culls several hundred lists, compiled by their most luminous writers, from McSweeney’s vast archives, and adds a good deal of new material.
From the demented minds who produced Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans and Mountain Man Dance Moves comes a new collection of literary, literate, literal humor–sketches, lists, letters, and spoofs…
Anna Akhmatova translations by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky.
Issue 55 of the ASME Award winning McSweeney’s quarterly.
"Coming this October, the 68th issue of our National Magazine Award-winning McSweeney's Quarterly features stories of duplicity and deception, double lives and secret histories, waiting for you underneath a cover…
McSweeney’s three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly returns with our 69th issue, a year-end themed issue featuring an exciting guest-editor TBA. Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned…
Collecting some of the best stories from the first ten issues of McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, this volume counts Jonathan Lethem, Glen David Gold, A. M. Homes, David Foster Wallace, Dave…
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Featuring letters by Maria Bamford, Sally Wen Mao, and Melissa Febos; brand-new stories by Brandon Hobson and Salvador Plascencia; three separate full-color art features from Gabrielle Bell and others; five…
McSweeney’s multi-award-winning quarterly returns with 67th issue, pressed inside a brilliant metal cover. A three-time winner and eight-time finalist of the National Magazine Award for fiction, each issue of the…
Issue56 delivers new work from Michelle Tea, Jose Antonio Vargas, T. C. Boyle,Dantiel W. Moniz, Genevieve Hudson, Jincy Willett, to name a few, and asection of staggering…
McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly returns with our 72nd issue, a perfect cube of a hardcover. Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned (there have been…
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…
Barthelme said that “The Novel of the Soil is dead, as are Expressionism, Impressionism, Futurism, Imagism, Vorticism, Regionalism, Realism, the Kitchen Sink School of Drama, the Theatre of the Absurd…
Even beyond Edmund White’s youthful hustler, Joyce Carol Oates’s fatherly killer, and Roddy Doyle’s Rwandan refugee, Issue 18 will not stay at home. Bears, clouds, assassinations, and demons lurk in…
Joshuah Bearman leads a daring investigation into the enigmatic Great Gerbil of central Asia, uncovering signs of an impending disaster. The issue also includes strange and wonderful stories from T.C…
McSweeney’s ever-changing Quarterly Concern returns with our 63 issue featuring a tribute to (and previously unpublished stories by) the acclaimed late author Stephen Dixon.
Ever changing, each issue of the…
McSweeneys 4 is a box containing fourteen booklets. The booklets feature fiction and nonfiction, from Denis Johnson, Haruki Murakami, Sheila Heti, George Saunders, Jonathan Lethem, Rachel Cohen, Lawrence Weschler, Rick…
Records burn in strip mall parking lots, a young woman is sacrificed, and something sinister awakens in the woods.
Evil finds a scapegoat in Adam Lloyd, a teen delinquent who…
Phil McSweeney
AngelThink gives business founders and startups a distinct competitive advantage when it comes to raising funds or getting business angels to invest. Founders need to make investors love them; to…
Terence McSweeney
Poems and Thoughts is a collection of original art coupled with poems and commentary about life, love and nature. Each writing delves into the elegance and fury of the natural…
Terence A McSweeney
Little One’s Big day was written during the pandemic when all the world shut down. The author missing his only grandchild one night sat down and wrote a poem remembering…
James Aranas has been named Archivist after the former Archivist's death. As he takes on his new duties, he is immediately confronted with a threat that jeopardizes all mankind. He…
Rae McSweeney
Based on true events, the story begins when a young baby doe with two broken legs is brought into a small town veterinary clinic by a local farmer. The kind…
