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Issue 11 features contributions by many of your favorite McSweeney's writers, as well as a chorus of new voices. Contributors include: Tom Bissell, Sean Warren, Samantha Hunt, Robert Olmstead, T.C. Boyle, David Means, Doug Dorst, Joyce Carol Oates, A.G. Pasquella, Brent Hoff, Stephen Elliott, Daphne Beal, Denis Johnson, and many others. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 11 comes complete with a letters section and an interview with prominent scientists, in this case with those investigating the recently found colossal squid, the largest known to man.… (meer)
This issue of McSweeney's is a beautiful, faux-leather hardbound volume with submissions by regular McSweeney's contributors and established authors. The pieces that I recall were T. C. Boyle's "Blinded By the Light," Alison Smith's "The Specialist," and Brent Hoff's interview with giant squid experts. There's also a powerful story by Joyce Carol Oates, a new submission in Lawrence Weschler's "Convergences" series, and Act II of Denis Johnson's play "Soul of a Whore" (Act I was in issue #9). Included on the back inside cover is a DVD that includes a dozen or so of the authors reading from their work, a scene from a performance of Johnson's play, "Making of" documentaries, and so on. It's all meant to be a send up of the extra material included on many movie DVDs. I don't remember ever watching it. ( )
Sometimes I enjoy the non-fiction in these volumes more than the stories, and that was true here: the section about giant/colossal squids was the most engaging, though I actually very much liked the inter-story sections of aerials, as well. ( )
Issue 11 features contributions by many of your favorite McSweeney's writers, as well as a chorus of new voices. Contributors include: Tom Bissell, Sean Warren, Samantha Hunt, Robert Olmstead, T.C. Boyle, David Means, Doug Dorst, Joyce Carol Oates, A.G. Pasquella, Brent Hoff, Stephen Elliott, Daphne Beal, Denis Johnson, and many others. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 11 comes complete with a letters section and an interview with prominent scientists, in this case with those investigating the recently found colossal squid, the largest known to man.
Included on the back inside cover is a DVD that includes a dozen or so of the authors reading from their work, a scene from a performance of Johnson's play, "Making of" documentaries, and so on. It's all meant to be a send up of the extra material included on many movie DVDs. I don't remember ever watching it. ( )