"And for God's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction too, stupid." -John Waters
Having spent most of his life medicated, electroshocked, and institutionalized, Jerome Coe finds himself homeless on the coldest night of the century — and so, with nowhere else to go, he accepts a ride out of New England from an old love's ex-girlfriend. Learn More
Grantland Quarterly is a collaboration between McSweeney's and Bill Simmons' new web magazine Grantland. It features some of the most exciting and form-pushing sports writers currently plying the trade, all delivered in a beautifully designed full-color book with original artwork and a host of print exclusives. Learn More
Grantland Quarterly is a collaboration between McSweeney's and Bill Simmons' new web magazine Grantland. It features some of the most exciting and form-pushing sports writers currently plying the trade, all delivered in a beautifully designed full-color book with original artwork and a host of print exclusives. Learn More
Grantland Quarterly is a collaboration between McSweeney's and Bill Simmons' new web magazine Grantland. It features some of the most exciting and form-pushing sports writers currently plying the trade, all delivered in a beautifully designed full-color book with original artwork and a host of print exclusives. Learn More
Even beyond Edmund White's youthful hustler, Joyce Carol Oates' fatherly killer, and Roddy Doyle's Rwandan refugee, Issue 18 will not stay at home. Learn More
McSweeney's 28 explores the state of the fable - those astute and irreducible allegories one doesn't see so much anymore in our strange new age, when everyone is wild for the latest parable or apologue but can't find time for anything else. Learn More