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M C S W E E N E Y ' S N E W S This page will be updated occasionally, notifying readers of developments, special offers, etc. from McSweeney's. All offers are real, unless they are obviously not real. - - - - AUGUST 23 Minor correction: Today, nine, not eleven, copies of Issue No. 2 were brought, by a junior McSweeney's Representative (M.R.Jr.), to Gotham Book Mart. We had promised eleven, but then the M.R.Jr. refused to carry more than nine, so there are only nine. All of these copies feature, on their first page, original drawings of the one-of-a-kind kind. A list of the featured drawings:
Thank you. Our apologies for any confusion this might have caused. - - - - AUGUST 20 Three days days ago, nine copies of Issue No. 2 were brought to Community Bookstore, on 7th Ave, in Park Slope, Brooklyn. On the first page of each of these issues, there is an original, one-of-a-kind drawing. They include:
Under or over most of these drawings, something clever has been written. These copies are priced the usual way, at $8 per. On Monday, August 23, eleven copies of Issue No. 2 will be brought to Gotham Book Mart, in midtown Manhattan. All of these copies will feature, on their first page, original drawings of the one-of-a-kind kind. They will include:
These copies will be priced at $8. On Wednesday, August 25, seven copies of Issue No. 2 will be brought to St. Mark's Book Shop, On 3rd Avenue and St. Mark's, in Manhattan. Between the covers and first pages of these copies will be affixed a portion of a color printer's proof used for Issue No. 3. These printer's proofs include images of Newt Gingrich, Slobodan Milosevic, the moon, the paintings of Mark Rothko and Georges de la Tour, and a picture of Hannah Wilke crouched in a corner. These images, or portions thereof, have been printed, for test purposes, on top of a guide to Icelandic geothermal activity. The copies of McSweeney's featuring these printer's proofs will cost a buyer $8. Two weeks later, five such copies will also be sent to The Regulator, a bookstore in Durham, NC, run by nice people. McSweeney's Issue No. 3 should hit bookstores by the end of the month. Subscribers should be receiving their copies before that. Thank you for your patience and understanding. - - - - AUGUST 11 When we returned from Reykjavik on Sunday -- it all went well, thank you; the boxes board this Friday's boat, and will be in bookstores at the end of the month -- we were greeted by a strange thing: two boxes of McSweeney's, returned from two Midwestern bookstores -- one in Chicago, one in Iowa City, Iowa. Each box contained about 12 pristine copies of Issue No. 1. Now, we will not cast aspersions as to why copies of No. 1 have sold out basically everywhere in the country but Iowa City and this particular Chicago bookstore, but either way, their patrons' loss is your gain. Those who have recently signed up for lifetime subscriptions, and those who do so very soon, will be sent one of these copies of Issue No. 1, each personally inscribed with some kind of cryptic drawing. Speaking of which, on Thursday, four copies of No. 1 will be made available at Community Bookstore in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Inscribed in these copies are:
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