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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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Issue 1 T I M O T H Y   M c S W E E N E Y ' S Q U A R T E R L Y   C O N C E R N (Known also as "Gegenshein") - - - - The debut issue is white, and is 144 pages long. This issue is out of print. Apart from a healthy number of errors and oversights, issue No. 1 contains: Learning to Love Again: A Story in Three Parts, by Neal Pollack [Mr. Pollack's signature stuff, including the world-shaking "This Albanian Life"] Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (VIII), by David Foster Wallace [About spiders and plastic surgery] R.W. Apple Is Prejudiced (An Open Letter to R.W. Apple), by Zev Borow [Borow indemnified us] The Discovery of El Dorado, City of Gold, by Marc Herman [Journalism, and a parallel fictional treatment] J.H.C., by Tom Junod [Short fiction about Jesus running a circus] Attack of the Fabulons, by Mark O'Donnell [A teleplay about aliens with impeccable taste] Mollusks, by Arthur Bradford [Award-winning fiction about a slug] On "The Yule Log," by Rick Moody [Killed by the NY Times] Young Professionals, by Courtney Eldridge [Cats, and young women, and neuroses = goodness] Frank and Pico, A New Screenplay by Morgan Phillips [Optioned for $1.5 mil] Have You Ever *Been* to Portland, Maine? By Mary Gallagher [Story told in floorplans] "Impressions" of a Life Very, Very Different from Our Own, Half a World Away, if Not Farther, Depending on Where You Leave From: An Egyptian Remembrance (Or, Notes and Complaints from a Colicky Child) by Stephen Shalit [Tricolumned story about a failed journalistic junket] Old Dogs, New Tricks: The Twilight of Modernism, and the Dawn of the Neo-Senilists, by Komar & Melamid and Mia Fineman [Those two, at it again] DJ & Emma, by Randy Cohen [Family life] Haole Go Home! (Small Gestures from the Hawaiian Secessionist Movement), by Zev Borow [Killed by Civilization magazine, when Bill Blass became editor] Also: contributions from Chris Harris, Marny Requa, Paul Tullis, Sarah Vowell, Todd Pruzan, Tim Carvell, Phillip Ryan

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