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Publisher
McSweeney's Books
Language
English
Pages
361

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The better of McSweeney's.
2005, McSweeney's Books
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Table of Contents

The ceiling / Kevin Brockmeier --
Saint Chola / K. Kvashay-Boyle --
The tears of Squonk, and what happened thereafter / Glen David Gold --
Do not disturb / A.M. Homes --
The man from out of town / Sheila Heti --
Fat ladies floated in the sky like balloons / Amanda Davis --
Eulogy for Saul Steinberg / Ian Frazier --
The observers / Paul La Farge --
Mollusks / Arthur Bradford --
The bees / Dan Chaon --
Three meditations on death / William T. Vollmann --
Yet another example of the porousness of certain borders (viii) / David Foster Wallace --
The Republic of Marfa / Sean Wilsey --
Flush / Judy Budnitz --
A mown lawn / Lydia Davis --
Banvard's folly / Paul Collins --
Cross-dresser / Gabe Hudson --
The girl with bangs / Zadie Smith --
The hypnotist's trailer / Ann Cummins --
Four institutional monologues / George Saunders --
The double zero / Rick Moody --
K is for fake / Jonathan Lethem --
The days here / Kelly Feeney --
Solicitation / Rebecca Curtis --
The Kanders case / Aleksandar Hemon --
Tedford and the megalodon / Jim Shepard.

Edition Notes

"Stories and letters"--Cover.

Published in
San Francisco
Other Titles
McSweeney's, McSweeney's.

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS648.S5

The Physical Object

Pagination
361, [7] p. ;
Number of pages
361

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23090769M
Internet Archive
betterofmcsweene0000unse_j5w8
ISBN 10
1932416331
OCLC/WorldCat
62311112
Goodreads
15590

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