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McSweeney’s Launches Poetry Series

McSweeney’s brand-new poetry series begins tomorrow evening in San Francisco. The inaugural reading will feature writers Allan Peterson, author of Fragile Acts (a Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection), Rebecca Lindenberg, author of Love: An Index,…

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Amanda Davis Award

McSweeney’s is accepting submissions for their Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award. “This memorial award is intended to aid a young woman writer of 32 years or younger who both embodies…

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McSweeney’s Interview With David Byrne

McSweeney’s recently published How Music Works, a book by David Byrne that explains all aspects of music, from creation, to distribution, to performance. In recent years, Byrne has released chapters of the book…

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BECK HANSEN’S SONG READER

Beck has announced that his latest album, Song Reader, composed of “twenty songs existing only as individual pieces of sheet music” to be given life by the reader, will be released…

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Politics

90 Days, 90 Reasons

With time waning in the electoral race between Obama and Romney, the lack of energy and enthusiasm is striking. Obama’s reelection seems to be met with the proverbial sound of…

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Throwing Stones at the Moon

Earlier this week, McSweeney’s published an excerpt from the next installment in its Voice of Witness book series. In case you’re unfamiliar, Voice of Witness—which also functions as a nonprofit—produces…

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A Million Heavens Celebration (Tonight!)

McSweeney’s is throwing a release party for John Brandon’s newest novel, A Million Heavens. The event will feature the author and musical accompaniment. Monday, July 30th, 6:30pm at Amnesia (853…

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Joke or Invitation?

In a thought-provoking Daily Beast essay about Daniel Tosh’s “rape joke” at the Laugh Factory, Rumpus Funny Women editor Elissa Bassist clarifies the distinction between using humor “to cope or…

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Elegy and Affirmation

McSweeney’s interviews Rebecca Lindenberg about her first book Love, an Index, making poetry out of Facebook statuses, “maximalism,” and more. “I think there is a general misconception that you write…

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Features & Reviews

Eli Horowitz Interview

UR Chicago interviews McSweeney’s editor Eli Horowitz in anticipation of his appearance at Columbia’s Story Week. Horowitz offers thoughts on publication, his book The Clock Without a Face, Adam Levin…

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They All Stand Up and Sing

I was somewhere in a big room in an old apartment in New York. The room was in a brownstone, or limestone, and had what appeared to be twenty-foot-high ceilings.…

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Diane Williams Q&A

McSweeney’s interviews Diane Williams, author of this month’s Rumpus Book Club selection, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty. Williams discusses the humor in her short story collection, being read to as…

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McSweeney’s Launches Poetry Series

Amanda Davis Award

McSweeney’s Interview With David Byrne

BECK HANSEN’S SONG READER

90 Days, 90 Reasons

Throwing Stones at the Moon

A Million Heavens Celebration (Tonight!)

Joke or Invitation?

Elegy and Affirmation

Eli Horowitz Interview

They All Stand Up and Sing

Diane Williams Q&A

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