Synopses & Reviews
In thirteen electrifying stories, our very first all-Latin-American issue takes on the crime story as a starting point, and expands to explore contemporary life from every angleswinging from secret Venezuelan prisons to Uruguayan resorts to blood-drenched bedrooms in Mexico and Peru, and even, briefly, to Epcot Center and the Havana home of a Cuban transsexual named Amy Winehouse. Featuring contemporary writers from ten different countriesincluding Alejandro Zambra, Juan Pablo Villalobos, Andres Ressia Colino, Mariana Enriquez, and many moreMcSweeneys 46 offers an essential cross-section of the troubles and temptations confronting the region today. Its crucial reading for anyone interested in the shifting topography of Latin American literature and Latin American life, and a collection of writing to rival anything weve assembled in years.
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"The first bona fide literary movement in decades." Slate
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This latest offering is as rousing as it is essential. And, true to form, killer on the design front.”
NPRThe best thing about McSweeneys 46 is that the work it gathers runs the gamut, from realism to surrealism to hyperrealism and beyond.” David Ulin, The Los Angeles Times
"Stirring work."Entertainment Weekly
Synopsis
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.
McSweeneys has won multiple literary awards, including two National Magazine Awards for fiction, and has had numerous stories appear in
The Best American Magazine Writing, the O. Henry Awards anthologies, and
The Best American Short Stories. Design awards given to the quarterly include the AIGA 50 Books Award, the AIGA 365 Illustration Award, and the Print Design Regional Award.
About the Author
Dave Eggers lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
McSweeneys began in 1998 as a literary journal that published only works rejected by other magazines. That rule was soon abandoned, and since then McSweeneys has attracted work from some of the finest writers in the country, including Denis Johnson, Jonathan Franzen, William T. Vollmann, Rick Moody, Joyce Carol Oates, Heidi Julavits, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Chabon, Ben Marcus, Susan Straight, Roddy Doyle, T. C. Boyle, Steven Millhauser, Gabe Hudson, Robert Coover, Ann Beattie, and many others. At the same time, the journal continues to be a major home for new and unpublished writers; were committed to publishing exciting fiction regardless of pedigree.