McSweeney's Issue 38 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

Issue 38 is due to be a real beauty, with stories pulled in from all over the world a grand tour, in prose, of a dozen places you have perhaps neglected to visit, up to now. There is Ariel Dorfman in Paris, with one eye on Chile, Bisi Adjapon in Ghana, Chanan Tigay with the Israeli Arabs of the Desert Scouts Brigade, Nathaniel Rich exploring the Northeast Kingdom, and Steven Millhauser somewhere far away, deep, deep in the woods and more stories, besides, plus a comic and color photography and a cover that'll earn you admiring glances in whatever environment you're in. Don't even think about missing this one.

Here comes yet another collection of award-winning fiction in the most unique packaging in the book industry today. "McSweeney's" began in 1998 as a literary journal, edited by Dave Eggers, that published only works rejected by other magazines. But after the first issue, the journal began to publish pieces primarily written with "McSweeney's" in mind. Since then, "McSweeney's" has attracted works from some of the finest writers in the country. Today, "McSweeney's" has grown to be one of the US' best-read and widely circulated literary journals, with an expanding, loyal subscriber base and strong independent bookstore following. As a small publishing house, "McSweeney's" is committed to finding new voices - Gabe Hudson, Paul Collins, Neal Pollack, J.T. Leroy, John Hodgman, Amy Fusselman, Salvador Plascencia, Wells Tower, and Sean Wilsey are among those whose early work appeared in "McSweeney's" - and promoting the work of gifted but underappreciated writers, such as Lydia Davis and Stephen Dixon. "McSweeney's" has attracted works from some of the finest writers in the country, including Denis Johnson, William T. Vollmann, Rick Moody, Joyce Carol Oates, Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Chabon, Ben Marcus, Susan Straight, Roddy Doyle, T.C. Boyle, Steven Millhauser, Gabe Hudson, Robert Coover, Ann Beattie, and many others.