MCSWEENEY'S

If a mountain man felt compelled to dance, how would he do it? If koala bears could talk, what would they say? And what's the right pickup line, if you're a necrophiliac? (Maybe 'I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get you pregnant.') Learn More

"Read what you enjoy, not what bores you," Nick Hornby tells us. That simple, liberating, and indispensable directive animates each installment of the celebrated critic and author’s monthly column in the Believer. In this delightful and never-musty tour of his reading life, Hornby tells us not just what to read, but how to read. Learn More

Jack Hopkins, an ill-fated real-estate agent with an unhappy past, doesn’t like what he does for a living. Learn More

Wildly acclaimed in Canada, this book marks the debut of a remarkable young writer first published by McSweeney's when she was twenty-three and living at home with her dad and brother. Learn More

Everyone in the broken-down town of Chelsea, Massachussetts, has a story too worn to repeat—from the girls who play the pass-out game just to feel like they're somewhere else, to the packs of aimless teenage boys, to the old women from far away who left everything behind. Learn More

McSweeney's goes mainstream with this experiment in pulp genre fiction. Learn More

AKA - McSweeney's At War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been so Scared. Learn More

A brand-new collection of stay-up-all-night, edge-of-the-seat, fingernail-biting, page-turning short stories. Learn More

In Magic Hours, award-winning essayist Tom Bissell explores the highs and lows of the creative process. Learn More