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Now available for preorder:
The San Francisco Panorama.
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- - - - "Nobody can add to the absurdity of this book, nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect." We're pleased to announce that English As She Is Spoke has arrived at the McSweeney's store in Brooklyn, and will be made available through the McSweeney's online store. It is the first volume in The Collins Library, a series by McSweeney's Books of unusual out-of-print literary works. Unavailable in the U.S. for decades, English now returns in this newly selected and typeset hardcover, edited and introduced by Paul Collins. It has been produced in a small run of only 1000 copies — and our friends at Oddi Printing have made this a handsome edition indeed. A traveler's phrasebook of, as Twain described it, "miraculous stupidities," English was originally published in 1855 by two Portuguese scholars who apparently could not speak any English. Even worse, they didn't own an English-to-Portuguese dictionary. What they did have, though, was a Portuguese-to-French dictionary and a French-to-English dictionary. The result may be seen in two selections below from their "Dialogues" chapter.
OTHER McSWEENEY'S STORIES:
The Power of Memory Week: How to Remember Names and Faces, Part 8: Interesting Facts and How to Recall Them By Robert H. Nutt The Power of Memory Week: How to Remember Names and Faces, Part 7: How to Remember Numbers By Robert H. Nutt The Power of Memory Week: How to Remember Names and Faces, Part 6: The Student Remembers through High School and College By Robert H. Nutt The Power of Memory Week: How to Remember Names and Faces, Part 5: The Cost of Forgetting the Wrong Things By Robert H. Nutt The Power of Memory Week: How to Remember Names and Faces, Part 4: Case History of a Memory and How It Grew By Robert H. Nutt |
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