Got the latest McSweeney's today. Sort of bland. Missing the usual introduction page that I joyously re-type here for easy reference. Couple of authors in there that I recognize, most I don't. I'll paste in the blurb from the website in lieu of anything more fun to read:
"Issue 38 is a real beauty, with stories pulled in from all over the world—a grand tour, in prose, of a dozen places you have perhaps neglected to visit, up to now! There is Ariel Dorfman in Paris, with one eye on Chile, Bisi Adjapon in Ghana, Chanan Tigay with the Israeli Arabs of the Desert Scouts Brigade, Nathaniel Rich exploring the Northeast Kingdom, Steven Millhauser somewhere far away, deep, deep in the woods, and new fiction from Dave Eggers—and more stories, besides, plus a comic and color photography and a cover that'll earn you admiring glances in whatever environment you're in." (It goes on a bit, but I think you get the idea...)
Not too sure how impressed I am that Dave Eggers (who I will admit I tend to admire very much) put "Chapter One" of his as-yet-untitled (and presumably unfinished) "forthcoming novel" in the pages of his own literary magazine. Maybe he's done that before and I never noticed. Now I'm going to have to go back through the back issues and look.
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