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Title:

The best of McSweeney's / edited by Dave Eggers and Jordan Bass.

Publisher:

McSweeney's,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

624 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates (folded) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Subject:

American literature--21st century.
American literature--20th century.
Literature--Collections.

Other Authors:

Eggers, Dave, editor of compilation.
Bass, Jordan, editor of compilation.
McSweeney's (Firm)

Other Titles:

McSweeney's (Series)

Notes:

Anthology of fiction and nonfiction. Selections originally published in McSweeney's quarterly, 1998-2013. Includes index.

Contents:

Pantoums / by Jennifer Michael Hecht, Bill Tarlin, and Ben Jahn. 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 Øyehaug -- 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.

Summary:

"A comprehensive collection of some of the magazine's most remarkable work."--Back of jacket.

ISBN:

1938073606 (pbk.)
9781938073601 (pbk.)
1938073592 (hc.)
9781938073595 (hc.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)837957322

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)