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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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M c S W E E N E Y ' S H A L L O W E E N   T A L E S . - - - - Welcome to McSweeney's Halloween Tales, guest-edited by Alex Wellen. Alex is an author and a screenwriter at the San Francisco Grotto at work on his first novel for Random House. He is the author of the memoir BARMAN: Ping-Pong, Pathos, and Passing the Bar (Three Rivers Press), published this fall in paperback. He welcomes your comments at alex@alexwellen.com. - - - - Memory of Halloween, Only Slightly Haunted By Andrew Sean Greer (11/1/04) This Is Not the Droid We're Looking For By Alex Wellen (11/1/04) Cinderfella By Po Bronson (10/29/04) A New Motion in Darkness By Amanda Field (10/29/04) Mother By Noah Hawley (10/28/04) The Blue Monkey By John Jay Osborn, Jr. (10/27/04) Anybody Dead? By Jake Morrissey (10/26/04) Regrets By Susan Gerhard (10/25/04) The Great Pumpkin By Norm Augustinus (10/25/04) Halloween: A Love Story By Rodes Fishburne (10/22/04) The Hobo Conundrum By Ethan Watters (10/21/04) Marv, Fawn, and Me By Beth Lisick (10/20/04) Yeah, I'm Muhammad Ali By Mary Roach (10/19/04) Bush Bum By Bob Tedeschi (10/18/04)

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