The best of McSweeney's
By: edited by Dave Eggers and Jordan Bass
Contributors: McSweeney's (Firm)
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9781938073595; 9781938073601
Subjects: American literature; Literature; Collections
Other titles: McSweeney's
Description: "A comprehensive collection of some of the magazine's most remarkable work."--Back of jacket.
Notes: Anthology of fiction and nonfiction.

Selections originally published in McSweeney's quarterly, 1998-2013.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Dave Eggers; title: Letters from Mike Sacks [and fifteen others] --; title: The ceiling  -- Kevin Brockmeier; title: New boy  -- Roddy Doyle; title: Statistical abstract for my hometown, Spokane, Washington  -- Jess Walter; title: Phantoms  -- Steven Millhauser; title: Do not disturb  -- A.M. Homes; title: from the Introduction to McSweeney's 13  -- Chris Ware; title: from Optic Nerve no. 9  -- Adrian Tomine; title: The Darlington Sundays  -- Daniel G. Clowes; title: We'll sleep in my old room  -- Chris Ware; title: The fixer  -- Joe Sacco; title: A child's book of sickness and death  -- Chris Adrian; title: They all stand up and sing  -- Julie Hecht; title: Oral history with hiccups ;; title: A mown lawn  -- Lydia Davis; title: from the introduction to McSweeney's 10  -- Michael Chabon; title: The bees  -- Dan Chaon; title: Retreat ;; title: Retreat #2  -- Wells Tower; title: Mr. Squishy  -- David Foster Wallace; title: Gentlemen, start your engines  -- Andrew Sean Greer; title: Can a paper mill save a forest?  -- Nicholson Baker; title: The girl with bangs  -- Zadie Smith; title: Bored to death  -- Jonathan Ames; title: There is no time in Waterloo  -- Sheila Heti; title: The double zero  -- Rick Moody; title: K is for fake  -- Jonathan Lethem; title: Further interpretations of real-life events  -- Kevin Moffett; title: Fire : the next sharp stick?  -- John Hodgman; title: Benjamin Bucks  -- Jennie Erin Smith; title: The unwritten stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald : introduction  -- Michelle Orange; title: Peasley  -- Sam Lipstye; title: Girl and giraffe  -- Lydia Millet; title: Stay where you are  -- Deb Olin Unferth; title: Hot pink  -- Adam Levin; title: Four institutional monologues  -- George Saunders; title: How to sell  -- Clancy Martin; title: Fathers and daughters  -- Lawrence Wechsler; title: (Notes from the Middle World)  -- Breten Breytenbach; title: Two by two  -- Gunnhild Øyehaug; title: The bastard  -- Nyuol Lueth Tong; title: S&J  -- Ellen Van Neerven-Currie; title: The new, abridged dictionary of accepted ideas  -- Edwin Rozic and Aleksandar Hemon; title: Twenty-minute stories  -- by Laird Hunt, Aleksandar Hemon, Glen David Gold, Peter Orner, and Jennifer Egan; title: Pantoums -- by Jennifer Michael Hecht, Bill Tarlin, and Ben Jahn.