Jim Crace is quite the writer. This being his debut outing, it's even more impressive for its ability to elicit some feeling deep in my core that I don't recall...
Someone somewhere at McSweeney's put a lot of thought into the packaging of Quarterly issue 16. The three separate pieces of literature come in this nicely line...
This, of all the McSweeney's editions I've read, is the least memorable. Despite that, I was actually a little surprised at the quality of the Icelandic stories...
Genre fiction is interesting in that it straddles the line between pulp and the stuff in the glossy matte (an oxymoron in itself) covers that demand premium pri...
These compilations are odd. I mean writing, and what you think of it, are so subjective. That's what makes McSweeney's anthologies both so good and bad at the s...
So, much to Mrs. Hipster's chagrin, I decided to subscribe to McSweeney's literary journal. She thinks all that crap is overly-high-minded, elitist and snobbish...
This guy was probably only a couple classrooms away from me while I was reading Ibsen plays at Syracuse. I never saw the guy, and the only thing I know about hi...
People love this guy for some reason. Maybe it's just dorky sci-fi dudes, but I've never had so many people comment on the book I was reading before. I guess I ...
Short story collections are perfect for those of us with the attention spans of your average sugar-addled ADD five-year-old. They provide a respite every twenty...
