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  • Letters to Laura from a McDonald’s in Brooklyn
    Becca Shaw Glaser

    Letters to Laura from a McDonald’s in Brooklyn

    Tonight my loneliness is infinite and I could eat dinner or dance with my limbs wild because there is no gravity keeping me grounded.

  • Victor Luo

    Snag a Book with Your Happy Meal

    In a somewhat romantic and educational gesture towards the Valentine’s Day season, McDonald’s is giving away books with their Happy Meals between Feb. 2 and Feb. 15. Titles include Paddington, Clark the Shark Takes Heart, Happy Valentine’s Day, Mouse!, and…

  • Charley Locke

    I’ll Have an Everlasting Gobstopper With My Big Mac, Please

    Young British bibliophiles may have found the Golden Ticket. In a six-week campaign backed by the National Literacy Trust (NLT), McDonald’s will offer chapters from Roald Dahl’s books with its Happy Meals. The Rumpus would choose Matilda over a Lego…

  • Ian MacAllen

    McBooks

    McDonald’s Happy Meals are about to get a little more literary, with the addition of children’s books. The LA Times reports that a deal with HarperCollins will put versions of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Big Nate: In…