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Exclusive First Look at Hot Pink Covers
Rumpus Book Club author Adam Levin’s highly anticipated new book, Hot Pink, is coming out from McSweeney’s. We’ve got an exclusive look at all three covers. Take a closer look after the jump:
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Good News About Kids and the Future
There’s a series of articles published by McSweeney’s that is re-contextualizing the state of the publishing industry. These essays are set out to address the facts which are often obscured by the fraught and perilous language abundant in the publishing…
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Is Me Really Monster?
Via McSweeneys: “When me get back to apartment, after cookie binge, me can’t stand looking in mirror—fur matted with chocolate-chip smears and infested with crumbs. Me try but me never able to wash all of them out. Me don’t think…
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Lucky Peach Y’all
McSweeney’s and David Chang’s new hunger-inducing venture, Lucky Peach, is out now. Check out the McSweeney’s attention in the Wall Street Journal. The first issue is ramen-themed. Being that there’s some sort of transitive property of common interest among those…
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McSweeeney’s For Minis
McSweeney’s is expanding evermore, this time to include a readership of youngsters and their literary-minded parents. This month they are coming out with McMullens, their children’s book imprint, set to publish around 12 books a year. In true McSweeney’s form,…
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VOW’s Forthcoming Title
Voices of Witness, the nonprofit bookseries imprint of McSweeney’s has a new book coming out in July but you can pre-order it now! Patriot Acts: Narrratives of Post-9/11 Injustice compiles the narratives from those afflicted by the slew of injustices…
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The Rumpus Interview with John Sayles
John Sayles is a force of nature, a do-it-yourself renaissance man—director, actor, screenwriter, script doctor, novelist.
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Levin Wins Young Lion’s Award
Adam Levin, author of the former Rumpus Book Club selection, The Instructions has won the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award! Congratulations to Adam (and McSweeney’s)!
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Another Beautiful Book from McSweeney’s
Our friends over at McSweeney’s have sent us a picture of the cover art for the soon-to-be-released A Moment in the Sun, by John Sayles:
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Magazine Review #4:
McSweeney’s 36McSweeney’s 36 can hardly be called a “magazine,” though it’s difficult to know just what to call it. A friendly human-head box filled with an assortment of printed matter would be more accurate. And what an assortment it is.
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McSweeney’s has The Goods
McSweeney’s and Tribune Media Services are bringing The Goods – “a gallimaufry of games, puzzles, comics, and other diversions” for kids and adults – to weekly newspapers. Contributing artists and writers include The Rumpus’s own Jon Adams.
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Adam Levin
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Adam Levin about The Instructions, Bar Mitzvahs, thinking you’re the Messiah, and what it’s like to publish a 1,000+ page book.