The Best of McSweeney's

The Best of McSweeney's

by Dave Eggers (Editor)

Synopsis

The Best of McSweeney's Volume 2 - the second instalment of Dave Eggers's crash course in what McSweeney's is all about - brings together more stories from the first ten issues of the magazine. Jonathan Ames, Judy Budnitz, Glen David Gold, Jonathan Lethem and A.M. Homes are amongst the writers spreading their wings in this fine collection and showing once more why McSweeney's is now a byword for brilliance, innovation and the unexpected.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Edition: 2
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 25 Aug 2005

ISBN 10: 0241142466
ISBN 13: 9780241142462

Author Bio

Dave Eggers (External Editor)
Dave Eggers is the author of twelve books, including The Monk of Mokha; The Circle; Heroes of the Frontier; A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award; and What Is the What, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of France's Prix Medicis Etranger. He is the founder of McSweeney's and the cofounder of 826 Valencia, a youth writing center that has inspired similar programs around the world, and of ScholarMatch, which connects donors with students to make college accessible. He is the winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and is the cofounder of Voice of Witness, a book series that illuminates human rights crises through oral history. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letter. His work has been translated into forty- two languages.

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