McSweeney's National Magazine Award-winning
Quarterly Concern
celebrates our first quarter century of being an occasionally actually quarterly publication as so many mid-twentysomethings do (drenching ourselves in a sea of nostalgia for our misbegotten youth and looking forward into the promise of the future) with one of our most dazzling issues to date! Coming to you housed inside a deluxe tin lunchbox illustrated by the legendary
Art Spiegelman
,
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features a portfolio of pareidolia art by Spiegelman himself, wherein he teases out images from random watercolor inkblots; original pieces by
Lydia Davis
Catherine Lacey
, and
David Horvitz
printed onto pencils and whose meaning is designed to change throughout the pencil's lifespan; and three packs of collectible author cards, packaged in real tear-away baseball-card packaging and featuring some of the finest writers of our time, including
Sheila Heti
Hanif Abdurraqib
George Saunders
Sarah Vowell
Michael Chabon
Eileen Myles
, and many more.
Find all this plus the official
McSweeney's Anthology of Contemporary Literature
: a book composed of some of the greatest works of McSweeney's past decade, with a new introduction by longtime editor
Claire Boyle
. Here you'll find award-winning, shortlisted, anthologized, and otherwise feted and beloved stories from
Lesley Nneka Arimah
T.C. Boyle
Mimi Lok
Kevin Moffett
Adrienne Celt
Bryan Washington
Samanta Schweblin
C Pam Zhang
Eskor David Johnson
Julia Dixon Evans
, and more! Dive in with us, readers, as we bathe in the warmth of the past, and get ready for our next quarter century of always thrilling and unexpected literary work.
Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned (there have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an issue with two spines, an issue with a magnetic binding, an issue that looked like a bundle of junk mail, and an issue that looked like a sweaty human head), but always brings you the very best in new literary fiction.