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Dave Eggers' The Wild Things is available for preorder, in regular hardcover and
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Issue No. 3
T I M O T H Y   M c S W E E N E Y ' S
W I N D F A L L   R E P U B L I C

(Incorporating Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and Timothy McSweeney's Blues-Jazz Odyssey, and predating Timothy McSweeney's Unsuccessful Inward, Timothy McSweeney's Finicky Corridor, and Timothy McSweeney -- Leprosarium Years.)


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Issue 3 is 288 pages long, and contains three color foldouts. It weighs about eleven pounds.

This issue is out of print.

The issue contains:

In the Kingdom of the Unabomber -- a 23,000-word piece by Gary Greenberg, a Connecticut psychotherapist who has maintained, for almost two years now, a correspondence with Ted Kaczynski. This is a superb essay.

Flush, by Judy Budnitz
[Fiction. A family gets cancer]

Anecdotes, Three of Them, by J. Robert Lennon
[Three tales that surprise, then edify]

Convergences, by Lawrence Weschler
[Seemingly (aren't they always?) random images come together and ignite short essays, and give rise to gatefolds]

Tin Chicken, by Tracy Olssen
[The pages of this story, about a household open to the public, are trifurcated, to encourage the flipping back and forth of their segments, much like those head-torso-leg books enjoyed by children of all ages. Really, this story has been engineered, painstakingly, so that it works, makes sense, whatever permutations applied to it. Try it. We fear few are trying it, but it must be cut with scissors and tried to be believed.]

"Spider Silk Is a Neat Material the World Wants. Can We Make This in Goats?" by Brent Hoff
[The McSweeney's Science Person here explores efforts afoot in Canada to take the properties of spider silk and apply them to building materials, but not without first sending the genes through BELE goats, miniature versions of that animal, found in Madagascar. This is a true story, told in roundtable form.]

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Christmas Story Trilogy:

Hark the Herald, by Magnus Mills
[Mills, whose Restraint of Beasts was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, here tells of a man who heads for the seaside in search of Christmas cheer, but misses it by inches]

Christmas in China {O-E-O-E-O!), by T.Z. Parsa
[A half-dozen interwoven lives, on Christmas Eve, in a city much like your own]

Santa and Son, by Steve Amick
[Santa's lone (legitimate) progeny, Gunta, returns home]
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Confessional Poem, by Rick Moody [Answers all your questions]

A Small Reception, by Mark O'Donnell
[A musical involving catering]

Red Dresses, by Ken Foster
[Fiction, with running commentary by Ana Marie Cox]

Tiny, Tiny, Vibrating Strings, and an Eleven-Dimensional Universe
[Interview with string-theory physicist Brian Greene, by David Steinhardt, who shared an apartment building with him as a child]

The Circus Elephants Look Sad Because They Are, by John Warner
[Hooper Award-winner Warner here discusses Gung Fu and suicidal books in short fictional form]

Banvard's Folly, by Paul Collins
[Continuing his Loser series, Collins here tells the story of John Banvard, a 19th-century showman and inventor of the "Three-Mile Painting." How did the most famous artist of his time die broke and unknown?]

Also in this issue:
- Stories of ol Virginny, by Arthur Bradford
- Desperate and appreciative and sometimes angry letters sent to Fresh Step, an adorable, soulful vocal group created by the writers of The Late Show
- Another irate message to the New York Times, by Zev Borow
- A letter from Paris, about crumbling, from Sarah Vowell
- A letter from Vegas, from Camden Joy
- A short piece of un-illustrated fiction by Tom Tomorrow

Not to mention contributions from:
Paul Maliszewski
Komar & Melamid
David Shields
Lucy Thomas
A.G. Pasquella
Chris Sorrentino
Ed Weinberger
Edwin Rozic and A. Hemon
Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Cynthia Kaplan
Colleen Werthmann
Tim Carvell
Morgan Phillips
Jim Hanas
Christina Nunez
And Jason De Joux, of New Zealand

And on the spine of Issue No. 3 is an original story, by David Foster Wallace, about child abandonment and trucks

 

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