![]() ![]() Over the course of its relatively brief existence, the magazine, rising from its humble origins as a site for absurdist humor and slices-of-postmodern-life (“An Interview With Parken Ward Brown, Age Two, On The Recent Visit Of Local TV Weatherman Ben Gelber To His Preschool,” and the like), has set up its own publishing imprint, by now the most visible part of the fiefdom. ![]() ![]() McSweeney’s first appeared as a web-based operation in 1996 its presiding genius, Dave Eggers, would later become a publishing sensation as the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2001), a clever if ultimately unsatisfying memoir of the years he spent raising his young brother after their parents’ death. One of the biggest beneficiaries of the general abandonment of critical judgment has been a magazine of new writing called Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern-hereinafter, McSweeney’s. More new books are being published now than perhaps ever before in recorded memory but it is clear that amid all this Potemkinvillage profusion, critical standards have been more or less gleefully left behind. McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling TalesĬontemporary fiction is a deceptively fertile patch of ground. ![]()
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