McSweeney's Issue 20 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

by Dave Eggers (Editor), Dave Eggers (Editor)

• Used

  Illustrated
  2006

  $3.25

  Every fourth page is a full-color figurative painting, each one by an excellent artist. The other pages have fiction on them, with only one color but lots of words including punched, pants, and Puerto -- that's actually just the first page. After that, there are stories exploring animal-plant romances, psycho librarians, and passive-agressive ventriloquism. No fewer than two dictators appear as protagonists. And after all that, loosely glued to the inside back cover, theres a fifty-page booklet containing a harrowing excerpt from Chris Adrians The Childrens Hospital..

  This is a handsome, handsome issue, brimming with fulfilling things.