McSweeney's Issue 20 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's Issue 20 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

Every fourth page is aÂ full-color figurative painting, each one by an excellent artist.Â The other pages have fiction on them, with only one color but lots of wordsÂ including punched, pants, and Puerto â€” that's actually just the first page. After that,Â there are stories exploring animal-plant romances, psycho librarians, and passive-agressive ventriloquism. No fewer than two dictators appear as protagonists. And after all that, loosely glued to the inside back cover, thereÂ¹s a fifty-page booklet containing a harrowing excerpt from Chris AdrianÂ¹s The ChildrenÂ¹s Hospital..

This is a handsome, handsome issue, brimming with fulfilling things.

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