• Internet Tendency
  • The Store
  • Books Division
  • Quarterly Concern
  • The Believer
  • Donate
McSweeney’s
Internet Tendency
Daily humor almost every day since 1998.
Daily humor almost every day since 1998.
McSWEENEY'S INTERNET TENDENCY'S PATREON

Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month and get access to author interviews, content calls, discounts at our store, and more. Help support our writers and keep our site ad-free.

February 23, 2017
The Angry Doodler Reviews

The Story of My Teeth
by Valeria Luiselli

by Siolo Thompson

 

  • Valeria Luiselli
  • Book Reviews
  • Angry Doodler
Please help support our writers and keep our site ad-free by becoming a patron.
Become a patron
Subscribe to McSweeney’s Internet Tendency’s Substack
Subscribe to McSweeney’s Internet Tendency’s Newsletter
➤

Betsy DeVos Delivers the Morning Announcements
➤

A Satirist’s Cheat Sheet to This Year’s Most-Anticipated Blockbusters
Suggested Reads
  • April 16, 2019
    A Template for Every Trump Tell-All Book Review
    by Eddie Small
  • July 17, 2014
    FLIP: A Column About Skateboarding: Column 25: Towards a Literature of Skateboarding: Book Reviews as Well as a Brief Comment from David Foster Wallace on a Supposedly Fun Thing
    by Joel Rice
  • October 29, 2010
    FLIP: A Column About Skateboarding: Column 13: Half of California: Notes for an Unwritten Review of the New Tony Hawk CEO Book
    by Bret Anthony Johnston
  • July 23, 2012
    A McSweeney’s Books Preview of Nick Hornby’s More Baths Less Talking
    by Nick Hornby
Trending 🔥
  1. May 19, 2025
    A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine
    by Amanda Bachman
  2. May 20, 2025
    The Problem with My City Is That It’s a City
    by Devin Wallace
  3. May 9, 2025
    Unsung Heroes of Motherhood
    by Wendi Aarons and Johanna Gohmann
  4. May 8, 2025
    An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy
    by Anaïs Godard
Recently
  • May 30, 2025
    Itinerary of a Parent Chaperoning a Field Trip, as Imagined by Their Middle Schooler
    by Caroline Horwitz
  • May 30, 2025
    Other Trump White House Food Acronyms
    by Andrew Marshall
  • May 30, 2025
    Excerpts from The Believer: Sisyphus in the Capital
    by Eskor David Johnson
  • May 30, 2025
    Bad Kissing Techniques
    by Alex Baia
The greatest graduation gift is this gorgeous deluxe boxed set of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Shockingly affordable!
Dave Eggers silkscreen prints to benefit the new International Library of Youth Writing! Purchase your own unique piece of art and check back regularly for more.
Winner of the 2025 IPPY Award for literary fiction!
Available for a very limited time: Direct from the hands of legendary artist Marcel Dzama, a brand new shirt!
“Brilliant and always surprising.”
—Detroit Free Press
“This is the kind of magazine you keep on your bookshelves with your favorite books.”
— Cece Bell, author of El Deafo
McSweeney’s is an independent nonprofit publishing company based in San Francisco.
As well as operating a daily humor website, we also publish Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Illustoria and an ever-growing selection of books under various imprints. You can buy all of these things from our online store. You can support us today by making a donation.

We are committed to our environment. Each year, we purchase carbon offsets commensurate with our estimate of the impact of the printing, shipping, and travel necessary to publish our books and magazines. We are continually working to minimize our impact on the planet by examining every business decision through a lens of sustainability. To support this effort, or to learn more, please write to executive director Amanda Uhle.
  • Internet Tendency
  • The Store
  • Books Division
  • Quarterly Concern
  • The Believer
  • Donate
  • About Us
  • Events
  • Email Newsletter
  • Advertise
  • Store Policy
  • Contact Us
  • Internships
  • Submission Guidelines
Copyright © 1998–2025, McSweeney’s Literary Arts Fund.
All Rights Reserved.
Search Magnifying Glass
  • Internet Tendency
  • The Store
  • Books Division
  • Quarterly Concern
  • The Believer
  • Donate
 

A year of The Believer, a year of world-class cinema, what could be better?

In honor of the upcoming 150th issue we’ve partnered with our friends at MUBI to have all new and renewed Believer subscriptions this month come with 40% off the cost of an annual membership to their streaming service. Need more? Our core print subscription is $10 off AND all back issues are 30% off to boot! Enjoy. MUBI discount link emailed at checkout. Deal ends June 5.

×