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McSweeney’s first ever student short story contest!

Friday, August 22, 2014

If you are a fan of McSweeney’s

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STORE OF THE MONTH: KUBRICK / HONG KONG

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

The idea of the good old cinemathèque feels very last century, and yet, maybe they are the last fortress of cinema to resist the dominance of super hero boredom on screen. Even more importantly for a city like Hong Kong, where one can count the number of outlets for independent culture on one hand. So [...]

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DROP CAPS

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

The art of decorative lettering seems to be a particularly American craft, and sometimes enviably so. So no surprise that Penguin US should have come up with the idea for a special edition of lettered-cover classics, and who better to face the task than Jessica Hirsche, who has already crafted so many of our McSweeney’s [...]

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POP SONGS

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Beck is back, and not in any way we would have imagined. For his latest album, Beck teamed up with our favourite publishing house McSweeney’s (founded, of course, by Captain Dave Eggers, gracing the cover of mono.kultur #25), which is due for release in early December. OK, you say, so why would someone like Beck [...]

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MCSWEENEY’S 41

Friday, September 14, 2012

Jordan Bass, managing editor of McSweeney’s Publishing, launched the 41st issue of McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern with Australian contributors Melissa Lucashenko, Ellen van Neerven-Currie and Chris Flynn at the Brisbane Writers Festival last weekend. I love a writers festival and coming across authors I haven’t read before. I left the festival with two new books – [...]

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I’M COMIC SANS, ASSHOLE.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

It’s always a nice diversion to pass through McSweeney’s Internet Tendencies every now and then for some challenging thoughts.

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NEWS FROM CALIFORNIA

Friday, October 21, 2011

Miranda July’s Future has been announced for German release in cinemas in late October, and our beloved Mrs July has promised that she will introduce it to us in person. In the meantime, the latest newsletter from our beloved friends at McSweeney’s says that they have just published a new book by the same Miranda [...]

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The Refugee Hotel

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Print is still a vibrant medium these days (or so we’ve noticed), but to remain so it needs to take advantage of the very forces that threaten it. Or force. Or, really, the Internet. And, as the ongoing The Refugee Hotel Book Project demonstrates, it can really be quite easy.

The Refugee Hotel is a hauntingly [...]

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HOPEFULLY COMING TO A NEWSPAPER NEAR YOU

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Publishers Weekly just announced another of McSweeney’s never-ending brilliant ideas. This time baptized The Goods, it is meant to be a page curated by an always different group of McSweeney’s authors and artists, to be subscribed and printed in real newspapers. The idea will bring together the traditional comics and games newspaper page with the [...]

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INSIDE THE HEAD-CRATE

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

McSweeney’s Issue 36 is out and I’m the proud owner of a 275-cubic-inch full-color head-crate that comes with eight booklets and lots of little bits and pieces with new incredible stories. I’m especially excited to find out about Tim Heidecker’s (of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!) contribution. Another great package from the US [...]

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