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This page will cover news from our happy adventures in book publishing. This page will provide both good news and bad news, and will detail the various issues and problems that arise when trying to print and distribute books. As often as our authors allow, we will be perfectly frank and open about the numbers involved, because part of improving this entire process, and thus the lives of many writers, involves thickening and quickening the flow of information about publishing. - - - - MAY 16, 2002 I. McSweeney's is pleased to announce the arrival of I. The long-awaited novel by master Stephen Dixon, twice a finalist for the National Book Award, I. is a searingly powerful and seemingly autobiographical novel — in the form of linked stories — that explores the limitations of memory and the frustrations of the narrator's life, as he cares for his two daughters and his handicapped wife, whose condition worsens as the narrator struggles with his own sense of mortality. I. will be published in hardcover, with cover art by acclaimed graphic novelist Dan Clowes. For more information about this book and all media queries, contact Lee Epstein. - - - -
MAY 9, 2001
Lots of announcements:
We are happy to announce the coming of four more books which we feel you
will like because they are being created by people you like and we like even
more:
LYDIA DAVIS: SAMUEL JOHNSON IS INDIGNANT
In October we will publish a new collection of work by Lydia Davis. Lydia
Davis is the author of the story collections Break It Down and Almost No
Memory, and the novel The End of the Story. These books have been and still
are extremely important to all of us at McSweeney's, and Ms. Davis has been
a wildly influential writer — a writer's writer, you might say — for many
many years, to many many people. We have had the pleasure of publishing her
in our Issues #4, 5 and 6, and now we are humbled and happy to be able to
Samuel Johson Is Indignant.
DAVID BYRNE: THE NEW SINS/LOS NUEVOS PECADOS
In the summer — this summer will be kind of busy — we will also bring out a
new book by David Byrne, called Los Nuevos Pecados (The New Sins). Byrne,
known first as the head person of Talking Heads, and later as a solo artist,
a photographer, film director and record-label-starter, has written a book
updating the Bible's sins for a more contemporary audience. The project
started with a request from the Valencia, Spain Bienal: artists were asked
to address the idea of sin. Byrne wanted to make a small book, about the
size and shape of a portable Bible, addressing the idea of sin and
elucidating los nuevos pecados -- the new sins. These books will be
distributed around Valencia for the exhibition, and shortly thereafter will
be available in the U.S. through McSweeney's. The book is brilliant and very
funny, contains about ninety of Byrne's photographs and will be available as
he travels the country this summer playing music from his perfect new album,
Look Into the Eye.
The fall will also bring two books by artists we admire.
MARCEL DZAMA: NEW AND OLD WORK (ACTUAL TITLE TO COME)
Marcel Dzama is a very young Canadian artist who might very well change
everything we know about art that involves alligators and men in bear
costumes holding guns. Dzama is from Winnipeg, and his work shows frequently
in New York and elsewhere. He is also the founder of the Royal Art Lodge, a
Canadian art group that gathers around and creates hundreds of drawings in
hours and sells them for $25 each. His book for McSweeney's will be in full
color, on the paper stock he uses for his original work, and will feature
paintings, drawings, sketches and most likely a pop-up or two. It will be
great.
CANDY JERNIGAN: 99 BLUE ROCKS
In the late fall we will present 99 Blue Rocks, by Candy Jernigan. Ms.
Jernigan, who died in 1991, was a celebrated artist whose work involved
meticulous collecting, cataloging and reproduction. For 99 Blue Rocks,
Jernigan reproduced, with stunning fidelity, rocks found on the coast of
Nova
Scotia while there with her husband, Philip Glass. A sampling of these
rocks are viewable in the new issue of McSweeney's, and are accompanied by
music composed by Glass. The book will recreate, exactly, the book of these
drawings Jernigan created in 1984.
That's all for now. Thank you for your time.
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