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McSweeney's Issue 67 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
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Fate brought me to the McSweeney’s experience.
Last spring, we spent a couple of weekends sorting and reshelving all of the books in our home. It was glaringly obvious we were missing many books in our Stephen King collection. Four months later and I had this thought going through my mind as I worked through a difficult reread of a DNF on my list, Infinite Jest. One evening I dipped out on the reading (avoided is more the word) to hunt down missing items. A few clicks in and the short story “Willie the Weirdo� (McSweeney’s 66) popped up. I had never heard of the source so down the rabbit hole I went, which led me to the realization that the founder of McSweeney’s (Dave Eggers) was the person who wrote the foreword to the book I was currently reading. Mind blown. I knew in that moment I had to subscribe to the Quarterly Concern because fate demanded it.
My first delivery contained the following:
A lemon yellow short story collection. This one was the thicker of the three and it contained letters, four short stories and one illustrated story. Not all were great, but most were entertaining.
A pumpkin orange pamphlet. This one contained a few pages of illustrations. The reluctant man caught my eye.
A midnight blue book of poems. This one was written by a bus driver while she lived each day of her life. I absolutely loved it. She plucked the most perfect words out of the sky and placed them expertly where they would have the most impact.
Five stars because fate earned it.
Last spring, we spent a couple of weekends sorting and reshelving all of the books in our home. It was glaringly obvious we were missing many books in our Stephen King collection. Four months later and I had this thought going through my mind as I worked through a difficult reread of a DNF on my list, Infinite Jest. One evening I dipped out on the reading (avoided is more the word) to hunt down missing items. A few clicks in and the short story “Willie the Weirdo� (McSweeney’s 66) popped up. I had never heard of the source so down the rabbit hole I went, which led me to the realization that the founder of McSweeney’s (Dave Eggers) was the person who wrote the foreword to the book I was currently reading. Mind blown. I knew in that moment I had to subscribe to the Quarterly Concern because fate demanded it.
My first delivery contained the following:
A lemon yellow short story collection. This one was the thicker of the three and it contained letters, four short stories and one illustrated story. Not all were great, but most were entertaining.
A pumpkin orange pamphlet. This one contained a few pages of illustrations. The reluctant man caught my eye.
A midnight blue book of poems. This one was written by a bus driver while she lived each day of her life. I absolutely loved it. She plucked the most perfect words out of the sky and placed them expertly where they would have the most impact.
Five stars because fate earned it.
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