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Dave Eggers' The Wild Things is available for preorder, in regular hardcover and
limited-edition fur-covered.

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D O N E   I N   P E N : T H E   P O E M S   O F N E W   Y O R K   T I M E S P U Z Z L E   E D I T O R W I L L   S H O R T Z . BY KEVIN GUILFOILE - - - - SONNET, MAYBE? Start of verse, More of verse, More of verse, More of verse, More of verse, More of verse, More of verse, More of verse, More of verse, More of verse, More of verse, with "The" More of verse, More of verse, End of verse. - - - - HAIKU, E.G. What the wind will do The noise a frog makes, sometimes A non-sequitur - - - - ODE TO A CRUTCH Ara, always Ara, Never Woody, Bo, nor Bear. When I'm boxed into a corner Coach, I know you're always there. - - - - HOMOPHONE NO. XXXIV This 911 is no joke Destitute George B., or Quint at the end of Jaws Jan Brady's lament, in Merchant of Venice:           "________! ________! ________!" - - - - DOES ANYONE DO THE JUMBLE? Does anyone do the Jumble? Are they so lacking skill and wit? If you must know what I think it is, You can just unscramble THIS. - - - - LIKE SOME LIMERICKS Tim Daly on Wings, for instance York or Sargent, capable of reaching one's mouth Clean one's mentum Speak gaily Intimacy with one's own auditory canal, colloq.     OTHER McSWEENEY'S STORIES: - - - - A Report on the Habits of the Sexually Ravenous Single Women of New York, Who Also Have Jobs By Neal Pollack Back-to-School Week: Ideas For Yet More Film Adaptations of Classic Novels, Updated and Set in a High School By Keith Bunin Back-to-School Week: Hazing Rituals to Be Inflicted by Me, Assuming That I Now Attend a British Boarding School By Mike Sacks Back-to-School Week: The Goddamned Trial By Ben Greenman Back-To-School Week: Errata By Andrew Grossman

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