McSweeney's Issue 82 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly brings you our 82st issue: a stunning double issue featuring a never before translated novella by Alejandro Zambra!The latest issue of McSweeney's National Magazine Award-winning quarterly comes to you housed inside an M-shaped, accordion-style, joined-at-the-back double-hardcover, folding and unfolding with art by Rob Sato to reveal a world that expands when the book is open and contracts when the book is closed. Inside this architectural feat of a book-art object is a stunning work of never-before-translated fiction by Alejandro Zambra; alongside dazzling new literature from Kenan Orhan, Deb Olin Unferth, and Hannah Kingsley-Ma; letters by Halle Butler, John Wray, and Massoud Hayoun; an Odyssean, toad-centric, natural-wine-drunk novella by Tom Bubul; a twelve-page, two-book-wide fever dream of a comic by Matt Panuska that can be read only if and when both books are open at once; a twenty-four-page booklet of additional drawings by Sato; and so much more. Breathe in the sweet late-spring air, and let this mysterious puzzle box of an issue envelop you.<BR><BR>Featuring fiction by:<BR>Alejandro Zambra (translated by Megan McDowell)<BR>Andrew Roe<BR>Avigayl Sharp<BR>Deb Olin Unferth<BR>Hannah Kingsley-Ma<BR>Jean Marc Ah-Sen<BR>Kenan Orhan<BR>Matt Lapata<BR>Paige Cooper<BR>Tom Bubul<BR><BR>Art by:<BR>Jesse Jacobs<BR>Rob Sato<BR><BR>A comic by:<BR>Matt Panuska<BR><BR>Letters by:<BR>Emily Nemens<BR>Halle Butler<BR>John Wray<BR>Massoud Hayoun<BR>Olivia Parkes<BR><BR>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.