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"Before you know it as the years go by, you're just like other people you have seen, with all those peculiar human ailments. Just another vehicle for temper and vanity and rashness and all the rest. Who wants it? Who needs it? These things occupy the place where a man's soul should be." -- Henderson the Rain King

Friday, January 27, 2006

McSweeney's #18

Book #5 of my reading list this year was McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #18.

In this issue McSweeney's toned down the packaging a bit and got back to the basics of delivering a high quality set of great short stories. Taken as a whole, I'd have to say that this is one of the best issues they've delivered in quite awhile. My personal favorites in the issue were Daniel Orozco's excellent 'Somoza's Dream', Roddy Doyle's 'New Boy', Adam Levin's 'Hot Pink', Yannick Murphy's 'In a Bear's Eye', Nelly Reifler's 'The Railway Nurse', and Edmund White's fascinating 'My Hustlers'.

The book came with a copy of Wholphin, McSweeney's new DVD magazine of unseen things. I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but I know it contains Miranda July's excellent short 'Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody?', so I have high hopes.

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posted by Jamie at 11:06 PM

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's good to see someone plugging this book. It's a good issue from McSweeney's.

We're discussing Nelly Reifler's "The Railway Nurse" and Yannick Murphy's "In a Bear's Eye" as well as other stories from McSweeney's on Pettifog.net

Members have access to download the McSweeney's 18 stories we're discussing. Membership is free.

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