McSweeney's Issue 83 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) - Hardcover

by Dave Eggers (Author), Rita Bullwinkel (Editor)

McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly brings you our 83rd issue: a beautiful hardcover stuffed to the brim with unforgettable fiction.

McSweeney's 83 finds us back in the comfort and safety of single-spined hardcoverness, with a multiply foil-stamped cover by Eric Nyquist and new fiction by Daniel Borzutzky, Chiara Barzini, Miranda McLeod, Shruti Swamy, Rosalind Margulies, and SJ Kim; letters by Robert Plunket, Ashton Politanoff, and Aruni Kashyap; a stunning 16-page comic by Kevin Reilly; dreamy interior illustrations by Soomyeong Kim; and so much more. In this issue there are stalkers, bad dads, driver's tests, absurdist visa applications, dentist appointments, misbehaving children, vampires, Italian islands, plane crashes, paper factories, Zoom calls, miscarriages, kings, castles, and the Pacific Northwest. Open this issue to step into this magnificent, many-voiced expanse.

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.

Author Biography

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern began in 1998 as a literary journal that published only works rejected by other magazines. That rule was soon abandoned, and since then McSweeney's has attracted some of the finest writers in the world, from George Saunders and Lydia Davis, to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and David Foster Wallace. Recent issues have featured work by Tommy Orange, Hanif Abdurraqib, Lisa Taddeo, Mimi Lok, and Lesley Nneka Arimah. At the same time, the journal continues to be a major home for new and unpublished writers; we're committed to publishing exciting fiction regardless of pedigree.