McSweeney's Issue 18
Good fiction can be distinguished by the level of disorientation you feel when you look up from your page. If the world that exists between the pages seems more lucid than reality, then it means the writer has done a good job.
The short stories that lie between the cardboard and silver foil maze of the McSweeney’s Issue 18 cover do exactly that. The contributions are eclectic yet consistent, shoot from the hip but aim for the heart. These stories take no prisoners.
Like synesthesia, these writers turn words into colour, confusing the senses in order to show things in a different way. They are stories that you look forward to reading and that you will continue to look back upon. They are stories that you will want to lend to your friend to inspire them, and that they will want to lend to theirs. McSweeney’s is a book that once you let out of your sight, you will never get back.
Format: Magazine
Motivation: Improve your dinner conversation
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