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This brilliant collection highlights a bold mix of fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, television writing, and more alternative comics than ever. Compiled by Dave Eggers and students from his San Francisco writing center, contributors include Judy Budnitz, "The Onion, The Daily Show, This American Life, " and George Packer.

Called a three-part exercise in inspired restriction--of author, of content, and of form--this collection features a section of poetry, a list of unused story premises by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and a glimpse into the legendary Oulipians by the president of France.

Featuring new work by Wells Tower, Michael Cera, and Etgar Keret, along with as always a bevy of lesser-known but nonetheless excellent writers investigating everything from mental hospitals to sentient mists, and possibly some kind of poster, Issue 30 warrants every ounce of attention and industry you'll give it, even if you are very important and your time is valuable--even if the fate of nations rests on your weary shoulders. You should sti...

Wat is de Wat is het verhaal van Valentino Achak Deng, een jongen die een vluchteling wordt in het door oorlog verscheurde Zuid-Soedan. Zijn reis, van bijna bijbelse proporties, brengt hem in contact met vijandelijke soldaten, rebellen, hyena¿s en leeuwen, ziekte en hongersnood, en de dodelijke murahaleen ¿ dezelfden die op dit moment Darfoer teisteren. Het biedt een onthullend en ontluisterend portret van een land in staat van bloedige oorl...

Dave Eggers is the author of twelve books, including The Monk of Mokha, The Circle, Heroes of the Frontier, A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award, and What Is the What, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of France's Prix M¿cis Etranger. He is the founder of McSweeney's and the cofounder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center that has inspired similar programs around the world, and of Sch...

The Wild Things"--based loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay co-written with Spike Jonze--is about the confusions of a boy, Max, making his way in a world he can't control.

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 Anthony Doerr, Heidi Julavits, and Salvador Plascencia, each of 'em unearthing a different corner of life in the year 2024. This will be, we are sure, way more entertaining than waiting fifteen years for the real thing.

Millions of people have fled from conflicts and persecution in all parts of the Northeast African country of Sudan, and many thousands more have been enslaved as human spoils of war. Here, in their own words, men and women recount life before their displacement and the reasons for their flight, and provide insight on the major stations of the "refugee railroads" -- the desert camps of Khartoum, the underground communities of Cairo, the humanit...

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, the Theatre of Cruelty, Black Humor, and Gongorism." But he left out, pointedly, the Biji, the Nivola, the Graustarkian Romance, the Consuetudinary, the Whore's Dialogue, the Fornaldarsaga, and the eighties, which are not dead, they are all in M...

»Es ist unmöglich, dieses Buch zu lesen, ohne erleuchtet, verwandelt und demütig zu werden.« Khaled Hosseini, Autor von Drachenläufer Mit sieben Jahren verliert Valentino alles, seine Familie, seine Freunde und seine Heimat, den Sudan. Er flieht mit Tausenden von anderen Kindern über Äthiopien nach Kenia, von wo aus er schließlich in die USA gelangt. Was Valentino dabei erlebt, ist kaum zu beschreiben. Umso erstaunlicher ist, mit wie viel Wär...

A bouillabaisse of nonrequired reading that should be required.--"Publishers Weekly." This brilliant collection highlights a bold mix of fiction, nonfiction, screenplays, television writing, and more alternative comics than ever.

Featuring 15 stories from writers, including Yannick Murphy, Roddy Doyle, Ben Greenman, and Peter Orner, "McSweeney's Issue 29" offers everything a good book should: from jungle warfare and boomerang factories to tragedies and romances.

»Ein herzzerreißendes Werk von umwerfendem Mitgefühl« Felicitas von Lovenberg, FAZ Mit sieben Jahren verliert Valentino alles, seine Familie, seine Freunde und seine Heimat, den Sudan. Er flieht mit Tausenden von anderen Kindern über Äthiopien nach Kenia, von wo aus er schließlich in die USA gelangt. Was Valentino dabei erlebt, ist kaum zu beschreiben. Umso erstaunlicher ist, mit wie viel Wärme, Zuversicht und sogar Humor er davon erzählt. Da...

National Bestseller The true story of one family, caught between America's two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina. Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young children, leaving Zeitoun to watch over the business. In the days following the storm he travels the city by canoe, fee...

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With tremendous new stories from Steven Millhauser and Roddy Doyle, an epic, genre-shattering novella from Hilton Als, and a really excellent special section on Norway's finest writers (featuring not just Per Petterson but also Kid Icarus and a woman named Blind Margjit)--along with, probably, correspondence from a man we can't yet name and an unbelievable disappearing-ink cover done by Jordan Crane--Issue 35 is a full-to-bursting edition in t...

Our laurels went unrested on for this one: Issue 34 features new stories of shipwrecks and kidnappings and bad vacations by (among others) Anthony Doerr, Daniel Handler, and T. C. Boyle, new letters about wine and Hawaii from John Hodgman and Sarah Vowell, twenty-one dead-on self-portraits drawn by the likes of Michael Martone, Michel Gondry, and Sarah Silverman, and, beyond all this, in a standalone volume, Nick McDonell's stunning exploratio...

In his first novel, Dave Eggers has written a moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. It reminds us once again what an important, necessary talent Dave Eggers is.

The debut last year of this newest addition to the Best American series was an instant hit with readers of all ages. Eggers will be editing the volume annually, choosing the finest, most interesting, and least expected fiction, nonfiction, humor, alternative comics, and more.