The Better of McSweeneys, Volume 1
by By Eli Horowitz, Dave Eggers
Category: Fiction , Anthologies (multiple authors)

This book collects some of the best stories from the first ten issues of  McSweeney's Quarterly Concern,  the literary journal that has become one of the country's most important and influential publications.  McSweeney's  began as a small collection of work rejected by other magazines, but it soon began to publish pieces primarily written for the journal, and to attract some of the finest writers in the country. Contributors to  Best of McSweeney's, Volume One  include Jonathan Lethem, Glen David Gold, A. M. Homes, David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers, Amanda Davis, George Saunders, Paul Collins, and William Vollmann, as well as many talented newcomers. Stories included here have been selected for  The O. Henry Prize Stories  and  The Best American Short Stories,  and one was performed in a regional musical theater.