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31 Songsby Nick HornbyISBN 0670914266 (0-670-91426-6)
Hardcover, Viking
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Arboretumby David ByrneISBN 1932416579 (1-932416-57-9)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arboretum'Book summary:For over twenty-five years, David Byrne has focused his unique genius upon forms as diverse as disco, architectural photography, and PowerPoint. Now he presents what may be his most personal work to date, a collection of drawings and diagrams mapping the strange corners of his mental landscape. Its an eclectic blend of faux science, automatic writing, satire, and an attempt to find connections where none were thought to exist a sort of self-therapy, allowing the hand to say what the voice cannot. Irrational logic, its sometimes called. It's the application of logical scientific rigor and form to basically irrational premises. To proceed, carefully and deliberately, from nonsense, with a straight face, often arriving at a new kind of sense. The world keeps opening up, unfolding, and just when we expect it to be closed to be a sealed, sensible box it shows us something completely surprising.[via]
Byrnes enigmatic, enchanting collection teaches us that there is absolutely no reason to discount anything, of any type, anywhere.More editions of Arboretum:
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Baby, Mix Me a Drinkby Lisa BrownISBN 1932416455 (1-932416-45-5)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baby, Mix Me a Drink'Book summary:Many people are parents, and many parents are thirsty. Yet too many parents allow their infant sons and daughters to lie about idly: napping, drinking milk, and whatnot. Why not put them to work? Observe how tots enjoy the shapes and colors, all the while learning how to mix a variety of basic cocktails. Thanks, Baby![via]More editions of Baby, Mix Me a Drink:
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The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writersby Vendela VidaISBN 1932416366 (1-932416-36-6)
Softcover, McSweeney's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers'Book summary:This book is a collection of conversations between writers and their mentors, taken from the pages of The Believer, along with previously unpublished conversations. The term mentors is used loosely to suggest an informal kinship between a younger writer and a more experienced one. These conversations are not limited to issues of writing and craft, but instead offer unfettered exchanges on a wide range of topics from Buddhism to infinity, politics to mountain climbing. The interviews feature the serious-yet-casual Believer approach to the standard, often formal, interview format. David Foster Wallace, for example, fields the question, Do you want to talk about your history with various forms of tobacco? while George Saunders reflects upon this oft-pondered mystery: Whats up with the crows in Syracuse? Interviews include Zadie Smith talking with Ian McEwan; Jonathan Lethem talking with Paul Auster; Adam Thirlwell talking with Tom Stoppard; Susan Choi talking with Francisco Goldman; ZZ Packer talking with Edward P. Jones; Dave Eggers talking with David Foster Wallace; Julie Orringer talking with Tobias Wolff; and Ben Marcus talking with George Saunders.[via]More editions of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers:
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The Better of Mcsweeney'sby Dave EggersISBN 1932416331 (1-932416-33-1)
Softcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Better of Mcsweeney's'Book summary:This book collects some of the best stories from the first ten issues of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, the literary journal that has become one of the country's most important and influential publications. McSweeney's began as a small collection of work rejected by other magazines, but it soon began to publish pieces primarily written for the journal, and to attract some of the finest writers in the country. Contributors to Best of McSweeney's, Volume One include Jonathan Lethem, Glen David Gold, A. M. Homes, David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers, Amanda Davis, George Saunders, Paul Collins, and William Vollmann, as well as many talented newcomers. Stories included here have been selected for The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Short Stories, and one was performed in a regional musical theater.[via]More editions of The Better of Mcsweeney's:
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The Children's Hospitalby Chris AdrianISBN 1932416609 (1-932416-60-9)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Children's Hospital'Book summary:A hospital is preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water. Inside, assailed by mysterious forces, doctors and patients are left to remember the world they've lost and to imagine one to come. At the center, Jemma Claflin, a medical student, finds herself gifted with strange powers and a frightening destiny. Simultaneously epic and intimate, wildly imaginative and unexpectedly relevant, The Children's Hospital is a work of stunning scope, mesmerizing detail, and wrenching emotion.[via]More editions of The Children's Hospital:
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Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney'S, Humor Category 1998-2003by Lee Epstein, Kevin J. Shay, John Warner, Dave Eggers, Suzanne KleidISBN 1400076854 (1-4000-7685-4)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney'S, Humor Category 1998-2003'Book summary:Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's, Humor Category, a collection from the clever young writers that bring us the McSweeney's literary journal and Web site, and co-edited by their leader, Dave Eggers, is funny from the first page. And by "first page," we mean the table contents. Of course not every essay, list, and swatch of dialogue are created equal, but the collection has many tasty morsels that are well worth a read, a read to friends, and then a re-read, after a decent interval has elapsed.
Most appealing in the book's starting lineup is J.M. Tyree's "On the Implausibility of the Death Star's Trash Compactor." Humorous as well as thought-provoking, this essay makes the perfect amuse bouche for what is arguably the collection's main course of hilarity, "Fire: the Next Sharp Stick?", "Candle Party," and "Unused Audio Commentary by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002, for the Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring DVD (Platinum Series Extended Version), Part One," all to be found in the early middle. Though a familiarity with candle parties, Howard Zinn, sharp sticks, and other topics satirized in this book is helpful, it's not necessarily required for understanding the jokes. The biggest risk here is binge-reading, as you may exchange audible laughter for the feeling that you are being force-fed an ice cream sundae. If you pace yourself--say no more than four to six pieces at a time--you should have the energy for the final third, including the funny list marathon at the end. Or save a few portions for later when you are really starving for a good laugh. --Leah Weathersby [via]
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Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc - Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney'S, Humor Category 1998-2003: ISBN 1400076854 (1-4000-7685-4)
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End of Iby Stephen DixonISBN 1932416536 (1-932416-53-6)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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English As She Is Spokeby Pedro Carolino, Jose Da Fonseca, Paul CollinsISBN 1932416110 (1-932416-11-0)
Softcover, McSweeneys Books
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Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergencesby Lawrence WeschlerISBN 193241634X (1-932416-34-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences'Book summary: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 seems to converge at least, it does if you're looking through Weschler's giddy, brilliant eyes. Weschler combines his keen insights into art, his years of experience as a chronicler of the fall of Communism, and his triumphs and failures as the father of a teenage girl into a series of essays sure to illuminate, educate, and astound.[via]More editions of Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences:
The Facts of Winterby Paul Lafarge, Paul PoisselISBN 1932416161 (1-932416-16-1)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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Fractured English As She Is Spokenby Jos±E Da FonsecaISBN 0486223299 (0-486-22329-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Future Dictionary of Americaby Dave Eggers, Nicole KraussISBN 1932416420 (1-932416-42-0)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Future Dictionary of America'Book summary:This book was conceived by Safran Foer Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Dave Eggers as a way to bring over a hundred authors together to promote progressive causes in the November 2004 election. The book is an imagining of what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when all of the world's problems are solved and our current president is a distant memory. The book is by turns funny, outraged, utopian, and dyspeptic.
Over 150 writers contributed to the book, including: Stephen King, Robert Olen Butler, Glen David Gold, Richard Powers, Susan Straight, Sarah Vowell, Billy Collins, C.K. Williams, Colson Whitehead, Donald Antrim, Jonathan Franzen, Edwidge Danticat, Edward Hirsch, Joyce Carol Oates, Katha Pollitt, Padgett Powell, Paul Auster, Anthony Swofford, Julia Alvarez, Susan Choi, Jim Shepard, Aimee Bender, and Art Spiegelman.
Hardcover editions of the book will also include a CD compilation, with all new songs by the best musicians working. Among them: David Byrne, R.E.M., Death Cab for Cutie, Moby, Sleater-Kinney, Flaming Lips, Tom Waits, Yo La Tengo, Bright Eyes, They Might Be Giants, Elliott Smith, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. [via]
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Giraffes? Giraffes!by Doris Haggis-On-Whey, Benny Haggis-On-WheyISBN 1932416048 (1-932416-04-8)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Giraffes? Giraffes!'Book summary:For many years the scientific and educational community has wondered and worried about the possibility that semi-sane scholar pretenders would find the means to put out a series of reference books aimed at children but filled with ludicrous misinformation. These books would be distributed through respectable channels and would inevitably find their way into the hands and households of well-meaning families, who would go to them for facts but instead find bizarre untruths. The books would look normal enough, but would read as if written by people who have eaten too many lead-based paint chips.
Well, sadly, that day is upon us. We offer to you the first in a proposed series of 377 reference books, all written by a couple, Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey, married 50 years and now getting their chance to twist and tickle the brains of the impressionable.
Giraffes? Giraffes! is the first in the series, and puts forth the following novel theories: that giraffes were not part of any evolutionary chain, but came here from Neptune, by way of very long (but convenient and fast) escalators; that giraffes are expert dancers, but they become angry if you ask them about their dancing; that giraffes control over 90% of what we see in mirrors; that the Giraffe Navy is as strong as ever, contrary to recent claims in the popular press.
This is a book to be feared. If you have young people in your life, keep it far away from them.
Giraffes? Giraffes! is a 9" x 12" hardcover reference book, with 64 lavishly-illustrated pages, and includes a set of giraffe trading cards carefully attached to the inside back cover. Cover is blue faux-leather, de-bossed with gold foil detail and a special 4-color illustration.
Doctor-approved for all age groups. [via]
H. P. Lovecraft: Against The World, Against Lifeby Michel Houellebecq, Stephen KingISBN 1932416188 (1-932416-18-8)
Softcover, McSweeneys Books
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Geniusby Dave EggersISBN 1568959095 (1-56895-909-5)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'Book summary:National Bestseller The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is an instant classic that will be read in paperback for decades to come. The Vintage edition includes a new appendix by the author. [via]
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius : A Memoir Based on a True Storyby Dave EggersISBN 0684863472 (0-684-86347-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius : A Memoir Based on a True Story'Book summary:Dave Eggers is a terrifically talented writer; don't hold his cleverness against him. What to make of a book called A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Based on a True Story? For starters, there's a good bit of staggering genius before you even get to the true story, including a preface, a list of "Rules and Suggestions for Enjoyment of This Book," and a 20-page acknowledgements section complete with special mail-in offer, flow chart of the book's themes, and a lovely pen-and-ink drawing of a stapler (helpfully labeled "Here is a drawing of a stapler:").
But on to the true story. At the age of 22, Eggers became both an orphan and a "single mother" when his parents died within five months of one another of unrelated cancers. In the ensuing sibling division of labor, Dave is appointed unofficial guardian of his 8-year-old brother, Christopher. The two live together in semi-squalor, decaying food and sports equipment scattered about, while Eggers worries obsessively about child-welfare authorities, molesting babysitters, and his own health. His child-rearing strategy swings between making his brother's upbringing manically fun and performing bizarre developmental experiments on him. (Case in point: his idea of suitable bedtime reading is John Hersey's Hiroshima.)
The book is also, perhaps less successfully, about being young and hip and out to conquer the world (in an ironic, media-savvy, Gen-X way, naturally). In the early '90s, Eggers was one of the founders of the very funny Might Magazine, and he spends a fair amount of time here on Might, the hipster culture of San Francisco's South Park, and his own efforts to get on to MTV's Real World. This sort of thing doesn't age very well--but then, Eggers knows that. There's no criticism you can come up with that he hasn't put into A.H.W.O.S.G. already. "The book thereafter is kind of uneven," he tells us regarding the contents after page 109, and while that's true, it's still uneven in a way that is funny and heartfelt and interesting.
All this self-consciousness could have become unbearably arch. It's a testament to Eggers's skill as a writer--and to the heartbreaking particulars of his story--that it doesn't. Currently the editor of the footnote-and-marginalia-intensive journal McSweeney's (the last issue featured an entire story by David Foster Wallace printed tinily on its spine), Eggers comes from the most media-saturated generation in history--so much so that he can't feel an emotion without the sense that it's already been felt for him. What may seem like postmodern noodling is really just Eggers writing about pain in the only honest way available to him. Oddly enough, the effect is one of complete sincerity, and--especially in its concluding pages--this memoir as metafiction is affecting beyond all rational explanation. --Mary Park [via]
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Here They Comeby Murphy YannickISBN 1932416501 (1-932416-50-1)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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Housekeeping Vs. the Dirtby Nick HornbyISBN 1932416595 (1-932416-59-5)
Softcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt'Book summary:In this latest collection of essays following The Polysyllabic Spree, critic and author Nick Hornby continues the feverish survey of his swollen bookshelves, offering a funny, intelligent, and unblinkered account of the stuff he's been reading. Ranging from the middlebrow to the highbrow (with unrepenting dips into the lowbrow), Hornby's dispatches from his nightstand table serve as useful guides to contemporary letters, with revelations on contemporary culture, the intellectual scene, and English football, in equal measure.[via]More editions of Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt:
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How We Are Hungryby Dave EggersISBN 1400095565 (1-4000-9556-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How We Are Hungry'Book summary:How We Are Hungry is a gripping, lyrical, and always intensely soulful group of stories written over the past four years. Though they range from a doomed Irish setter's tales of running and jumping ("After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned") to a bitterly comic meditation on suicide and friendship ("Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance"), the stories share a haunting and haunted sense of mortality. Though full of bursts of levity and humor, the book is deeply informed by the troubled times in which it was written. How We Are Hungry includes many never-before-published stories, along with a number of pieces that first appeared in magazines, both well known (Zoetrope, The New Yorker) and small and independent (h2s04, Ninth Letter). All previously published stories have been significantly revised. The urgency and experimentalism of Eggers's earlier work are still present, but are brought to a new level of precision and craft, injecting fresh life into traditional forms. Narratives are often linear, told by distinct and varied voices, and settings stretch from Egypt to Interstate 5.[via] 
Iby Stephen DixonISBN 0971904707 (0-9719047-0-7)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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Icelanderby Dustin LongISBN 193241651X (1-932416-51-X)
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Jokes Told in Heaven About Babiesby Lucy ThomasISBN 193241603X (1-932416-03-X)
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Lady into Foxby David GarnettISBN 1406831859 (1-4068-3185-9)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady into Fox'Book summary:Wonderful or supernatural events are not so uncommon, rather they are irregular in their incidence. Thus there may be not one marvel to speak of in a century, and then often enough comes a plentiful crop of them; monsters of all sorts swarm suddenly upon the earth, comets blaze in the sky, eclipses frighten nature, meteors fall in rain, while mermaids and sirens beguile, and sea-serpents engulf every passing ship, and terrible cataclysms beset humanity.
But the strange event which I shall here relate came alone, unsupported, without companions into a hostile world, and for that very reason claimed little of the general attention of mankind. For the sudden changing of Mrs. Tebrick into a vixen is an established fact which we may attempt to account for as we will. Certainly it is in the explanation of the fact, and the reconciling of it with our general notions that we shall find most difficulty, and not in accepting for true a story which is so fully proved, and that not by one witness but by a dozen, all respectable, and with no possibility of collusion between them. . . . [via]
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Lady into Fox and a Man in the Zooby David GarnettISBN 0701219238 (0-7012-1923-8)
Softcover, Chatto & Windus
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LemonISBN 0970335512 (0-9703355-1-2)
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Mcsweeney's 17by Dave EggersISBN 1932416315 (1-932416-31-5)
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Mcsweeney's 18by Eggers, Dave (Ed)ISBN 1932416382 (1-932416-38-2)
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Mcsweeney's 19: Old Facts, New Fiction, & A Novella By T.C. Boyleby Dave EggersISBN 193241648X (1-932416-48-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mcsweeney's 19: Old Facts, New Fiction, & A Novella By T.C. Boyle'Book summary:McSweeney's Issue 19, our first issue of 2006, turns toward earlier and equally uncertain years, traveling back by way of pamphlets, info-cards, and letters addressing bygone conflicts and still-constant concerns. Expect, among other recovered works, carefree strategies for insurgencies in Nicaragua, astrological advice for the Nixon/Agnew campaigner, sanguine guidance for the soldier stationed in the Middle East at mid-century, and commonsense reinforcement for the doughboy drifting toward a gonorrhea infection. Also featured is T.C. Boyle's feral child novella and additional quasi-historical work by new writers.[via]More editions of Mcsweeney's 19: Old Facts, New Fiction, & A Novella By T.C. Boyle:
Mcsweeney's 21by Dave EggersISBN 1932416617 (1-932416-61-7)
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Mcsweeney's 22by Dave EggersISBN 1932416668 (1-932416-66-8)
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McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber Of Astonishing Storiesby Michael Chabon, Michael MignolaISBN 1400078741 (1-4000-7874-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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McSweeney's Issue 12by Dave EggersISBN 1932416064 (1-932416-06-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'McSweeney's Issue 12'Book summary:Issue 12 is made up of three parts. The first and largest section consists entirely of new writers -- new to us, probably new to you, and not even well-known by their own families.Part two is a new story from Roddy Doyle, featuring Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments.Part three is a collection of twenty-minute stories, by which we mean stories written in twenty minutes, from all sorts of people that you know and do not know.[via]More editions of McSweeney's Issue 12:
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Mcsweeney's Issue 20by Dave EggersISBN 1932416528 (1-932416-52-8)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mcsweeney's Issue 20'Book summary:Every fourth page is a full-color figurative painting, each one by an excellent artist. The other pages have fiction on them, with only one color but lots of words including punched, pants, and Puerto that's actually just the first page. After that, there are stories exploring animal-plant romances, psycho librarians, and passive-agressive ventriloquism. No fewer than two dictators appear as protagonists. And after all that, loosely glued to the inside back cover, there¹s a fifty-page booklet containing a harrowing excerpt from Chris Adrian¹s The Children¹s Hospital..[via]
This is a handsome, handsome issue, brimming with fulfilling things.More editions of Mcsweeney's Issue 20:
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McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Talesby Michael ChabonISBN 140003339X (1-4000-3339-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales'Book summary:A Vintage Contemporaries Original
Includes:
Jim Shepard's "Tedford and the Megalodon"
Glen David Gold's "The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter"
Dan Chaon's "The Bees"
Kelly Link's "Catskin"
Elmore Leonard's "How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman"
Carol Emshwiller's "The General"
Neil Gaiman's "Closing Time"
Nick Hornby's "Otherwise Pandemonium"
Stephen King's "The Tale of Gray Dick"
Michael Crichton's "Blood Doesnt Come Out"
Laurie King's "Weaving the Dark"
Chris Offutt's "Chucks Bucket"
Dave Eggers's "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly"
Michael Moorcock's "The Case of the Nazi Canary"
Aimee Bender's "The Case of the Salt and Pepper Shakers"
Harlan Ellison's "Goodbye to All That"
Karen Joy Fowler's "Private Grave 9"
Rick Moody's "The Albertine Notes"
Michael Chabon's "The Martian Agent, a Planetary Romance"
Sherman Alexie's "Ghost Dance" [via]More editions of McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales:
Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern: 15by McSweeney'sISBN 1932416153 (1-932416-15-3)
Softcover, McSweeneys Books
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Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue Number 13by Chris Ware, Eli HorowitzISBN 1932416080 (1-932416-08-0)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue Number 13'Book summary:McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13 is all comics. It is edited by Chris Ware (author of Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth), and features so many artists to know and love: R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, Lynda Barry, Los Bros Hernandez, Adrian Tomine, Julie Doucet, and on and on. The issue also includes essays from Michael Chabon, Ira Glass, John Updike, Chip Kidd, and others. A hardcover, clothbound edition, this quarterly comes with an enormous dust jacket that does much more than guard against dust. This one makes our throats go tight.[via]More editions of Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue Number 13:
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Mountain Man Dance Moves: The Mcsweeney's Book of Listsby McSweeney'sISBN 0307277208 (0-307-27720-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mountain Man Dance Moves: The Mcsweeney's Book of Lists'Book summary:If a mountain man felt compelled to dance, how would he do it? If koala bears could talk, what would they say? And whats the right pickup line, if youre a necrophiliac? (Maybe Im pretty sure Im not going to get you pregnant. )
In the throes of debates like these, were lucky to have the learned people of McSweeneys Internet Tendency, America's best low-budget humor website, and their edifying work. From their best-looking writers comes this collection of over three hundred lists, including...
Signs Your Unicorn Is Cheating on You.
"Errors in Communication Between My Hairdresser and Me, in the Form of What I Said and What He Heard"
"Things This City Was Built On, Besides Rock 'n' Roll"
"Things This One Girl Sitting Near Me in a Movie Theater Said Out Loud When One of the Characters Was Shown Pulling Into a Gas Station"
"Future Winners of the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest"
"Adjectives Rarely Used by Wine Tasters"
"The Collected Apologies of Lawrence H. Summers, President of Harvard"
"Exactly What I Mean When I Say My Ex-Girlfriend Kristin and I 'Wanted Different Things from Life"
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Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, And One Other Stories We Coulby McSweeney's, Eli HorowitzISBN 1932416358 (1-932416-35-8)
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The People Of Paperby Salvador PlascenciaISBN 1932416218 (1-932416-21-8)
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Pharmacist's Mateby Amy FusselmanISBN 0970335539 (0-9703355-3-9)
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The Pharmacist's Mate: A Tale of Birth, Death and Goldfishby Amy FusselmanISBN 0142002356 (0-14-200235-6)
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The Polysyllabic Spreeby Nick HornbyISBN 1932416242 (1-932416-24-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Polysyllabic Spree'Book summary:In his monthly column "Stuff I've Been Reading," Hornby lists the books he's purchased that month, and briefly discusses the books he's actually read.[via]
NIck Hornby's Polysyllabic Spree Includes selected passages from the novels, biographies, collections of poetry, and comics discussed in the column.More editions of The Polysyllabic Spree:
Samuel Johnson Is Indignantby Lydia DavisISBN 0312420560 (0-312-42056-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Samuel Johnson Is Indignant'Book summary:One of the Village Voice's 25 Favorite Books and the ALA's 2002 Notable Books, this collection of 56 stories is like nothing else. By which we mean: there is nothing else like this. Lydia Davis makes simple things complicated and complicated things simple, and it is all amazing to behold.[via]More editions of Samuel Johnson Is Indignant:
The Secret Language of Sleep: A Couple's Guide to the Thirty-Nine Positionsby Evany Thomas, Amelia BauerISBN 1932416471 (1-932416-47-1)
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Songbookby Nick HornbyISBN 1573223565 (1-57322-356-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Songbook'Book summary:The personal essays in Nick Hornby's Songbook pop off the page with the immediacy and passion of an artfully arranged mix-tape. But then, who better to riff on 31 of his favorite songs than the author of that literary music-lover's delight, High Fidelity?
"And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do," writes Hornby. More than his humble disclaimer, he captures "the narcotic need" for repeat plays of Nelly Furtado's "I'm Like a Bird," and testifies that "you can hear God" in Rufus Wainwright's coy reinterpretation of his father Loudon's "One Man Guy" ("given a neat little twist by Wainwright Junior's sexual orientation..."). Especially poignant is his reaction to "A Minor Incident," a Badly Drawn Boy song written for the soundtrack of the film version of Hornby's book About a Boy. While Hornby was writing the book, his young son was diagnosed with autism--a fact that adds greater resonance to the seemingly unrelated song he hears much later: "I write a book that isn't about my kid, and then someone writes a beautiful song based on an episode in my book that turns out to mean something much more personal to me than my book ever did." Meandering asides and observations like this linger in your mind (just like a fantastic song) long after you've flipped past the final page.
The 11-song CD that accompanies the book is a great touch, but it's too bad it doesn't contain all of the featured songs--most likely the unfortunate result of licensing difficulties. Overall, Hornby's pitch-perfect prose, the quirky illustrations from Canadian artist Marcel Dzama, and a good cause--proceeds benefit TreeHouse, a U.K. charity for children with autism, and 826 Valencia, the nonprofit Bay Area learning center--add up to make Songbook a hit. Solid gold. --Brad Thomas Parsons [via]
Speak, Commentaryby Tom Bissell, Jeff AlexanderISBN 1932416072 (1-932416-07-2)
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Superbadby Ben GreenmanISBN 0970335571 (0-9703355-7-1)
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This Shape We're inby Jonathan LethemISBN 0970335520 (0-9703355-2-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Shape We're in'Book summary:Lethem, author of the bestselling Motherless Brooklyn , returns in concentrated form - packing twice the adventure into one-eighth the pages. This book could be some kind of allegory book, but it might not be an allegory book at all. It involves people and drinking and people looking for a giant eye. It is among the best things Mr. Lethem has written.[via]More editions of This Shape We're in:
Timothy Mcsweeney's at War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been so Scaredby Dave EggersISBN 1932416129 (1-932416-12-9)
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The Very Persistent Gappers of Fripby George Saunders, Lane SmithISBN 1932416374 (1-932416-37-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip'Book summary:The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip is that rarity, a fable that appeals equally to literate adults and id-crazed kids. Its author, George Saunders, is a Thomas Pynchon-approved, three-time O. Henry Award-winning surrealist writer; its artist, Lane Smith, is the Caldecott-honored illustrator of The Stinky Cheese Man and film designer of James and the Giant Peach. Nothing could evoke Saunders's simple yet extravagant story better than Smith's strange, painterly depictions of the seaside town of Frip, a place of ornery eccentrics and oddball animals. Smith combines some of the virtues of George Grosz, Dr. Seuss, and the Japanese prints called Ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world").
Gappers are baseball-sized, burr-shaped orange creatures with a compulsion to creep up out of the sea and fasten themselves to goats, whom they love. "When a gapper gets near a goat it gives off a continual high-pitched happy shriek of pleasure that makes it impossible for the goat to sleep, and the goats get skinny and stop giving milk," writes Saunders. Since Frip survives by selling goat milk, the children must brush gappers off the herd eight times daily and dump them into the ocean. You simply must see Smith's picture of Capable, the book's plucky heroine, emptying her gapper-sack from a precarious cliff picturesquely menaced by subtly colored waves. You'll be torn between lingering over the gorgeous artwork and flipping the page to see how Capable will ever cope with the gapper invasion of Frip, her obdurately past-obsessed widower papa, and her dumb, mean neighbors (two snooty, boy-obsessed girls and a family of singers who are harder on the ears than a keening gapper attached to the goat of its dreams). This is a slim tale, but unquestionably one quite in keeping with Saunders's prizewinning books. The title story of Pastoralia, for instance, is also a fable involving class struggle and people who get snooty about the difficulties of working with goats.
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip is a grownups' book, a kids' book, an art book, and a cause for countless happy shrieks of pleasure. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Voyage Along the Horizonby Javier Marfas, Kristina CorderoISBN 1932416404 (1-932416-40-4)
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What Is the Whatby Dave EggersISBN 1932416641 (1-932416-64-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Is the What'Book summary:In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home as a boy and walks, with thousands of orphans, to Ethiopia, where he finds safety for a time. Valentino's travels, truly Biblical in scope, bring him in contact with government soldiers, janjaweed-like militias, liberation rebels, hyenas and lions, disease and starvation and a string of unexpected romances. Ultimately, Valentino finds safety in Kenya and, just after the millennium, is finally resettled in the United States, from where this novel is narrated. In this book, written with expansive humanity and surprising humor, we come to understand the nature of the conflicts in Sudan, the refugee experience in America, the dreams of the Dinka people, and the challenge one indomitable man faces in a world collapsing around him.[via]More editions of What Is the What:
You Shall Know Our Velocityby Dave EggersISBN 1400033543 (1-4000-3354-3)
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Your Disgusting Head : The Darkest, Most Offensive and Moist Secrets of Your Ears, Mouth and Noseby Doris Haggis-On-WheyISBN 0743267257 (0-7432-6725-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Your Disgusting Head : The Darkest, Most Offensive and Moist Secrets of Your Ears, Mouth and Nose'Book summary:For many years the scientific and educational community has wondered and worried about the possibility that semi-sane scholar-pretenders would find the means to put out a series of reference books, filled with ludicrous misinformation and aimed at children.
Well, we offer you YOUR DISGUSTING HEAD by Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey. A world-renowned and much feared expert on everything, Dr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey has seventeen degrees from eighteen institutions of higher learning. With her husband, Benny, she has traveled the world many times over, has learned about all aspects of life, including outer space and food, first hand.
The human body is beautiful and mysterious. The mysterious part reeks of cheese. But no part of your body is as scary and horrifying as your head! In YOUR DISGUSTING HEAD: The Darkest, Most Offensive--and Moist--Secrets of Your Mouth, Nose and Ears, Dr. & Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey reveal -- through newly discovered discoveries -- all the ways in which your head disappoints you.
With such amazing information as:
" The ear was invented and designed by Feranando de la Mancini Goldfarb, in 1911, which was also a good year for yeast.
" Good Reasons for teeth removal: dentist did it; peer pressure; not sharp enough; found better teeth, like, on the ground; suspected of enjoying flossing; decay and mouth politics.
" The real reason your ears can't hear your pets talking. The answer is simple: your pet is a mumbler."
With the wit and irreverent sense of humor for which Dave Eggers and McSweeney's is known, comes the second volume in the revolutionary Haggis-On-Whey World of Unbelievable Brilliance books. More than just entertaining and informative, YOUR DISGUSTING HEAD will help you appear smarter, more in touch with your sensitive side and whiten your teeth. And much, much more that will likely sicken you. [via]
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English As She Is Spokeby Pedro Carolino, Jose Da Fonseca, Paul CollinsISBN 097190474X (0-9719047-4-X)
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