McSweeney's Issue 68 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
By: Daniel Gumbiner
3.91
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
Coming this October, the 68th issue of our National Magazine Award-winning McSweeney's Quarterly fe…
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1. The Refugees
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
3.87
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two g… read more
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- short stories
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"Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth."-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees
"But what does one say to a ghost, except to ask why he was here? I was afraid of the answer, so instead I said, 'What took you so long?"-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees
"I had seen Star Wars a dozen times on video tape, and if anyone was so deprived as to have not watched it even once, then the country in which he lived surely needed a revolution."-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees
"Aren't you afraid of ghosts?" I asked. Over the line, in the silence, the static hissed. "You aren't afraid of the things you believe in," he said. This, too, I wrote in his memoir, even though I had…"-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees
2. Remembering
By: Wendell Berry
4.02
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Remembering takes place in a single day in 1976. Andy Catlett, at the bottom of a deep dark depress… read more
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"They were not going to live again in a time like that."-Wendell Berry, Remembering
"There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot."-Wendell Berry, Remembering
"It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve."-Wendell Berry, Remembering
"We stood and looked and knowed it was all the time we had and from now on we must remember. We must look now forever."-Wendell Berry, Remembering
3. The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
By: Wendell Berry
4.34
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Old Jack, born just after the American Civil War and dying in contemporary times, spends one beauti… read more
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"She mourns for the future, as the past has taught her. And yet there is a rejoicing in her, persistent and unbidden as the beating of her heart."-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
"The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing that cannot be proved, and respect nothing it cannot understan…"-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
"Now when he walked in his fields and pastures and woodlands he was tramping into his mind the shape of the land, his thought becoming indistinguishable from it, so that when he came to die his intell…"-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
"Sitting there, eyes shut, head tilted back, hands at rest upon his cane's crook, he seems to sink immeasurably, to float down into a well of light as warm and red as blood. He has met the sun at its …"-Wendell Berry, The Memory of Old Jack (Port William)
4. Nathan Coulter
By: Wendell Berry
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Nathan Coulter begins Wendell Berry's sequence of novels about the citizens of Port William, Kentuc… read more
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"Oh Lord, make us able To eat all that's on this table, And if there's some we haven't got Bring it to us while it's hot"-Wendell Berry, Nathan Coulter
"Tobacco,' Jig said. 'I used to raise tobacco once. But I quit. I was plowing one morning, and the Lord said, "Jig, how'd you like for your daughter to smoke?" And I said, "I wouldn't like it, Lord. I…"-Wendell Berry, Nathan Coulter
5. The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership
By: Wendell Berry
3.69
Format: None pages, Paperback
Now in paperback for the first time, Berry's popular collection of six interconnected stories trace… read more
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- short stories
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6. Tree of Smoke
By: Denis Johnson
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet Ame… read more
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7. Ploughshares, Fiction Issue (Vol. 29, Nos. 2 & 3, Fall 2003)
By: Alice Hoffman , Don Lee , David Daniel
3.91
Format: 337 pages,
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8. McSweeney's #11
By: Joyce Carol Oates , Denis Johnson , Stephen Elliott , T. Coraghessan Boyle , Dave Eggers , Tom Bissell , Robert Olmstead , McSweeney's Publishing , Samantha Hunt , David Means , Doug Dorst , Brent Hoff , A.G. Pasquella , None , None
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Issue 11 features contributions by many of your favorite McSweeney's writers, as well as a chorus o… read more
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9. The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An exceptional father-son story about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the… read more
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10. Walking The Himalayas
By: Levison Wood
4.43
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Following his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest … read more
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11. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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- fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
12. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
By: Jamie Loftus
3.92
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more
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"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
13. The Eyes and the Impossible
By: Dave Eggers
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The illustrated story of a dog who unwittingly becomes a hero to a park full of animals. Johanne… read more
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- fiction
"What monster would turn up his snout at the thought-through help of all the friends he had?"-Dave Eggers, The Eyes and the Impossible
"Every reasonable creature knows that the worst thing any creature can do all day is think of themselves. If there are troubles in your mind, you should think first of the troubles of others; it is th…"-Dave Eggers, The Eyes and the Impossible
14. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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15. Liberation Day
By: George Saunders
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more
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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."-George Saunders, Liberation Day
16. Boys Weekend
By: Mattie Lubchansky
4.03
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more
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17. The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
By: Sam Wasson
4.09
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelator… read more
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18. McSweeney's Issue 67 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
By: Claire Boyle
3.94
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Fasten your seatbelts. Sound the alarm. Hot on the heels of the best-selling McSweeney's 66 comes t… read more
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19. McSweeney's Issue 65 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
By: Claire Boyle
3.55
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
McSweeney’s 65: Plundered spans the American continent, from a bone-strewn Peruvian desert to inlan… read more
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20. McSweeney's Issue 70 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
By: Claire Boyle
3.60
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
This April, three-time National Magazine Award-winning McSweeney's Quarterly returns with its 70th … read more
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21. McSweeney's Issue 71 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Monstrous and the Terrible
By: Brian Evenson
4.04
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
Our first-ever issue-length foray into horror, and featuring one of our biggest lineups in some tim… read more
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22. The Honor of Your Presence
By: Dave Eggers
3.48
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
In this long short story, or short novella, Dave Eggers gives us an unforgettable duo, Helen and Pe… read more
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23. McSweeney's Issue 72 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
By: Claire Boyle
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly brings your our 72nd issue, a susp… read more
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24. Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
By: Johny Pitts
4.32
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
'Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A cont… read more
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"It's not terrorism when white people plot organised murders in the name of an extreme ideology."-Johny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
"Those unemployed black men I saw loitering all over Europe weren’t inherently lazy, but lost and low on confidence and opportunities, and their crime was that they were visible, unlike the black staf…"-Johny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
"For most black people in Europe, the battle against prejudice is for life, which is why you have to pace yourself to run a marathon instead of exerting all your energy in a spring if you want to surv…"-Johny Pitts, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
25. McSweeney's Issue 66 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
By: Claire Boyle
3.85
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
McSweeney’s National Magazine Award-winning quarterly brings you our 66th issue, an elegant paperba… read more
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26. McSweeney's Issue 68 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
By: Daniel Gumbiner
3.91
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
Coming this October, the 68th issue of our National Magazine Award-winning McSweeney's Quarterly fe… read more
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27. McSweeney's Issue 69 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
By: Claire Boyle
3.65
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Just in time for the holidays, the sixty-ninth issue of our National Magazine Award-winning McSween… read more
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28. The Splendid Ticket
By: Bill Cotter
3.66
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Angie Bigelow has won the jackpot: a $324 million lottery ticket. How will she spend the money? Wil… read more
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29. McSweeney's Issue 74 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): 25th Anniversary Issue
By: James Yeh
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback in lunchbox
None read more
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30. McSweeney's Issue 73 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Manifesto: A Collection of Manifestos
By: Dave Eggers
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly returns with our 74th issue, a per… read more
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