The Online Books Page Penguin Classics Canada McSweeney’s Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia London Review of Books · 21 August 2014 McSweeney’s: Quarterly & Books TIMOTHY McSWEENEY’SQUARTERLY CONCERN McSweeney’s began in 1998 as a literary journal that published only works rejected by other magazines. That rule was soon abandoned, and since then McSweeney’s has attracted work from some of the finest writers in the country, including Denis Johnson, Jonathan Franzen, William T. Vollmann, Rick Moody, Joyce Carol Oates, Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Chabon, Ben Marcus, Susan Straight, Roddy Doyle, T.C. Boyle, Steven Millhauser, Gabe Hudson, Robert Coover, Ann Beattie, and many others. Each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned. Issue 46 Issue 45 Issue 44 Issue 43 Issue 42 Issue 41 Issue 40 Issue 39 Issue 38 Issue 37 Issue 36 Issue 35 Issue 34 Issue 33 (The San Francisco Panorama) Issue 32 Issue 31 Issue 30 Issue 29 Issue 28 Issue 27 Issue 26 Issue 25 Issue 24 Issue 23 Issue 22 Issue 21 Issue 20 Issue 19 Issue 18Out of stock Issue 17 Issue 16 Issue 15 Issue 14 Issue 13 Issue 12Out of stock Issue 11Out of stock Issue 10Out of stock Issue 9Out of stock Issue 4 Mr. H.P.
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