McSweeneys is quite brilliant, really, there should be more projects like this floating around. Or perhaps there are and I just don’t know ‘em. Feel free to let me know.
Essentially this is a collection of literature by well respected or up and coming authors. McSweeneys is often packaged in inventive ways with quite exception production for the book world. I only bought issue 18 to get the free DVD; Wholphin, a collection of short films and stuff. More on Wholphin later.
The writing in McSweeneys is quite exceptional. There are 14 stories in this issue ranging in length from 3 pages to 30 and containing a myriad of different writing styles. Very few of the authors were familiar to me before reading this volume but I’ll be sure to check more work by them after reading this. Honestly I can’t recommend this highly enough. They are on volume 23 or so and it really looks as if they’re all worth getting.
McSweeneys have a really playful nature about they way they produce literature. Chris Ware even edited an edition a while back to widespread acclaim. This is a company that does everything right. One to watch.
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