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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. - - - - MAY 25 About us: Timothy McSweeney's Worldwide Fondness (née Internet Tendency, née Electronic Newspaper) is an offshoot of a quarterly journal, Timothy McSweeney's Blues-Jazz Odyssey (née Quarterly Concern). (Note: As of Monday, May 31, the web site will be renamed Timothy McSweeney's Web Indication, and as of July 13, the quarterly will be known either as Timothy McSweeney's Implausible Adventure, or as Timothy McSweeney's Unsuccessful Inward.)Though the quarterly and the web version share a name, or at least a portion of a name, bear in mind that there is no overlap of content between the two arms of McSweeney's. Nothing that runs on the web has run in the journal, and vice-versa. In other words, these arms do not ever cross. One arm does not, you might say, know what the other is doing. Actually, sometimes it does. But it shouldn't. There have been two issues of the quarterly, and both are available. The current issue, called Timothy McSweeney's Blues-Jazz Odyssey, is in bookstores now. Elsewhere on the site, many retailers, in this country and Canada, are listed -- though the list should not be considered complete, or always accurate. The first issue (albeit slightly tarnished copies thereof) is still available via mail-order, and also, while they last, through three New York retailers: St. Mark's Bookshop (downtown); Gotham Book Mart (midtown); and the Community Bookstore in Brooklyn (7th Avenue, in Park Slope). Each of these stores has a small portion of the maybe 40 copies left of the first issue. McSweeney's HQ has about 20, though many of them are in poor shape, they having been offered for sale in the Northwest, coolly ignored, and sent back. Prospective subscribers can specify, with their order, that they would like to receive numbers One and Two. We will send both, while they last. ISSUE ONE INCLUDES: Komar & Melamid (with Mia Fineman) on Neo-Senilism; a short story by David Foster Wallace; Rick Moody on "The Yule Log"; Pushcart-Prize nominated stories by Courtney Eldridge and Arthur Bradford; along with work by Zev Borow (about Hawaiian secession efforts), Marc Herman (about gold mining), Neal Pollack, Stephen Shalit, Mary Gallagher, Mark O'Donnell (about alien invasions), Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman, Tim Rogers, Marny Requa, and many others. There is a story about a slug. ISSUE TWO INCLUDES: fiction by Arthur Bradford, Amanda Davis, Laurence Krauser (about a love affair with a lemon), Paul Maliszewski, and short essays by David Shields, Daniel Radosh (on musicals), Neal Pollack, Jonathan Lethem (on the roles turned down by Jerry Lewis), Jon Langford (of the Mekons, on Lester Bangs), and Ana Marie Cox. Also, a huge story about the goings-on in Marfa, Texas, by Sean Wilsey. Not to mention oddities by Colleen Werthmann, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Heidi Julavits (outtakes from The Mineral Palace), Sarah Vowell, Tim Rogers, Marny Requa (a one-act play based on Titanic-related Congressional testimony), and much, much more. There is a story where a monkey talks to a snake. ISSUE THREE is due in July. Issue Three will be good. You will see. When ordering a subscription to McSweeney's, please, please indicate which, if any, of the first two issues you would like. If there is no indication, you will be automatically sent #2, on which will be a post-it note with a drawing of an angry face. McSweeney's 394A Ninth Street Brooklyn NY 11215
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