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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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THE RETURN
OF DUD DURDEN:
OUR SECOND
ELECTRANGULATIONS
E-BOOK.

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Following the massive success of our first Electrangulations e-book, Chris Bachelder's Lessons in Virtual Tour Photography, we are pleased to announce that The Case of the Sexy Ladies: A Dud Durden Mystery by Jack Pendarvis is now available as a beautifully designed, easily downloadable electronic book.

When we last left Dud Durden, in McSweeney's Quarterly Issue 20, his spirit had just flown out of his body due to his apparent death. Dud and his employer, the young millionaire and would-be detective Lombard "Three" Cuff III, had been tailing a suspicious French ornithologist through the back roads of Alabama, on a tip from a high-ranking official of the Catholic Church. During the course of their mission, Dud and Three got lost in the woods, where they were bitten by a poisonous snake and died. OR DID THEY? Find out now, only here, in the story that Pendarvis's editor left out of Pendarvis's next book because he deemed it "too silly": THE CASE OF THE SEXY LADIES: A DUD DURDEN MYSTERY!

Today only, Issue 20—which includes the first Dud Durden mystery, "The Big Dud"—is half price in our online store.

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OTHER McSWEENEY'S FEATURES:

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The Return of Dud Durden: Our Second Electrangulations E-Book
Jane Eyre Runs for President By Sean Carman
The Conflicted History of the Wave By Michael Rottman
A Memo to My New Boyfriend Re: Clarification of Offer Pursuant to Securities and Exchange Commission Regulations and Also My Trouble With Monogamy By Jennifer Dziura
Yesterday's Book Reports From Today's Notables By Wayne Gladstone

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