McSweeney's, October 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. The Wild Things -- based very loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritten with Spike Jonze -- is about the confusions of a boy, Max, making his way in a world he can't control. His father is gone, his mother..... More
Simon & Schuster, February 2000. Hardcover. "Well, this was when Bill was sighing a lot. He had decided that after our parents died he just didn't want any more fighting between what was left of us. He was twenty-four, Beth was twenty-three, I was twenty-one, Toph was eight, and all..... More
McSweeney's, July 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing..... More
McSweeney's, July 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing..... More
McSweeney's, November 2013. First Edition. Cloth. To commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the journal called "a key barometer of the literary climate" by The New York Times and twice honored with a National Magazine Award for fiction, here is The Best of McSweeney's--a comprehensive collection of the most remarkable work..... More
Pub Group West, January 2006. Oversized Clothbound. From a cuneiform tablet to a Chicago prison, from the depths of the cosmos to the text on our T-shirts, Lawrence Weschler finds strange connections wherever he looks. The farther one travels (through geography, through art, through science, through time), the more everything..... More
Random House Inc, July 2003. Trade Paperback. More
Random House Inc, July 2003. Trade Paperback. More
Macadam Cage Pub, February 2004. First Edition. Cloth. The Night Face Up is about Theo who learns to associate abuse with affection while growing up in the juvenile detention facilities in Chicago. The second half of the book concerns itself with how Theo's desires play out as an adult. In..... More
McSweeney's, March 2012. Hardcover. Adam Levin's debut novel The Instructions was one of the most buzzed-about books of 2010, a sprawling universe of "death-defying sentences, manic wit, exciting provocations and simple human warmth" (Rolling Stone). Now, in the stories of Hot Pink, Levin delivers ten smaller worlds, shaken snow-globes of..... More
McSweeney's Books, November 2012. Hardcover. Last year Rick Bass traveled to Rwanda, roaming from the bustle of Kigali to the breathtaking volcanic preserves of the last few mountain gorillas. Now he offers an extraordinary portrait of what can be found in that country today?heartbreaking evidence of the genocide that occurred..... More
McSweeney's, June 2011. Trade Paperback. Issue 38 is due to be 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..... More
McSweeney's, March 2009. Trade Paperback. Featuring new work by Wells Tower, Michael Cera, and Etgar Keret, along with as always a bevy of lesser-known but nonetheless excellent writers investigating everything from mental hospitals to sentient mists, and possibly some kind of poster, Issue 30 warrants every ounce of attention and..... More
McSweeney's, January 2005. Hardcover. McSweeney's began in 1998 as a literary journal, edited by Dave Eggers, that published only works rejected from other magazines. But after the first issue, the journal began to publish pieces written with McSweeney's in mind. Soon after, McSweeney's attracted works from some of the finest..... More
McSweeneys, June 2005. Novelty. Issue #16 of our Quarterly Journal! 3 volume set in a wrap around slipcase. Unread, still in shrink wrap. More
McSweeney's, May 2008. Novelty. Plunging straight into the grayish, faintly understood area of the art world that involves oddly drawn objects coupled with uncertainly spelled text, McSweeney's Issue 27 brings together a previously uncategorized cadre of pithy draftsmen, genius doodlers, and fine-artistic cartoonists, and buffets them with articles examining just..... More
McSweeney's, December 2017. Hardcover. Issue 51 features eighteen brand-new stories so compelling that you'll read through the night and far into the next day, until your boss calls and warns you that you're on thin ice, buddy, and better get to the office right the {expletive} now--but we swear it's..... More
McSweeney's, May 2009. Hardcover. Gary Gray marries his first girlfriend, a fellow student from Central Florida Christian College who loves Disney World as much as he does. They are 19 years old, God-fearing, and eager to start a family, but a week before their wedding Gary goes into a rest-stop..... More
McSweeney's, February 2008. Hardcover. On February 27, 2007, during an interview with Amy Goodman, General Wesley Clark described a 2002 Pentagon conversation in which he was told that America was planning to invade Iraq. From the same source, he learned of a classified memorandum listing six other countries the United..... More
McSweeney's, June 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. A novel in the form of linked stories that explores the limitations of memory and the frustrations of the author's life, as he cares for his two daughters and his handicapped wife, whose condition worsens as he struggles with his own sense of mortality..... More
McSweeney's, December 2011. Hardcover. This issue is a two-book package, held together by a cardboard bellyband. Our first issue of 2012 features all kinds of amazing stuff--so much, from so many good people, that we turned it into two beautiful little books. There are new stories from Neil Gaiman and..... More
McSweeney's, 2008, January 2008. Soft Cover. Oblong 12mo. More
McSweeney's, 2008, January 2008. Soft Cover. Oblong 12mo. More
McSweeneys, June 2007. Trade Paperback. This book is perfect for people who are funny and for those who aren't funny (thus it is marketable to 100 percent of the population). As we all know, true creativity comes from simple formulas and the memorization of data. This new bible makes the..... More
McSweeney's Books, January 2002. Trade Paperback. More
