McSweeney's Issue 79 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) [Paperback]

Coming to you at the intersection of book and tapestry, the seventy-ninth issue of our National Magazine Awardwinning quarterly is embroidered from head to toeusing precisely 133,095 stitches of threadwith the art ofMarta Monteiro. Inside this tactile, textile, tangerine-backdropped, cloth-bound art object are nine new stories, three fresh novel excerpts, six timely letters, an essay as sharp as a blade, a stunningly surreal slice of a graphic novel byPatrick Keck, and a shockingly beautiful, hot-pink suite of Mary Magdalenes painted byLeanne Shapton.

As your fingers caress the raised topography of this issues beyond-belief weave, marvel at a story byJoseph Earl Thomasin which time stops mid-dunk; a novel excerpt byHelen DeWittandIlya Gridneffin which invented languages make a play; a story byAhmed Najithat circles Cairo rap clashes; a captivating, climate-terror portrait of a story byT.C. Boyle; three totally crisp, sentence-gem-adorned stories byDiane Williams; dazzling letters byJac Jemc,Meng Jin,Rebekah Bergman, and so much more!

Blow a kiss goodbye to summer, and brush your hands over the neon-threaded landscape ofIssue 79to feel a magazine that, both inside and out, is truly like no other.


Ever changing, 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 a bundle of junk mail, and an issue that looked like a sweaty human head), but always brings you the very best in new literary fiction.

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