
In eight illustrated books, elegantly held together in a single beribboned case, McSweeney's Issue 28 explores the state of the fable. For the next two days, it's $5 off. - - - - |
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
Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (VIII),
by David Foster Wallace
R.W. Apple Is Prejudiced (An Open Letter to R.W. Apple), by Zev Borow
The Discovery of El Dorado, City of Gold, by Marc Herman
J.H.C., by Tom Junod
Attack of the Fabulons, by Mark O'Donnell
Mollusks, by Arthur Bradford
On "The Yule Log," by Rick Moody
Young Professionals, by Courtney Eldridge
Frank and Pico, A New Screenplay by Morgan Phillips
Have You Ever *Been* to Portland, Maine? By Mary Gallagher
"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
Old Dogs, New Tricks: The Twilight of Modernism, and the Dawn of the
Neo-Senilists, by Komar & Melamid and Mia Fineman
DJ & Emma, by Randy Cohen
Haole Go Home! (Small Gestures from the Hawaiian Secessionist Movement),
by Zev Borow
Also: contributions from Chris Harris, Marny Requa, Paul Tullis, Sarah Vowell, Todd Pruzan, Tim Carvell, Phillip Ryan
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