McSweeney’s #23
Well, what do you know? This time around, McSweeney’s is a plain old book, containing a nice and neat ten tales by writers known — such as Chris Bachelder, Ann Beattie and Roddy Doyle — and, at least to us, unknown — such as Clancy Martin, Christopher Stokes and Wells Tower. Well, upon closer inspection, we notice that the cover folds out into a gigantic poster on one side, while on the other is a brain scrambling piece that involves a complicated division of two-dimensional space that is too elaborate to elaborate on here. And, oh wait, what have we here attached to the inside back cover? It’s a special “trial-size edition” of Comedy by Numbers, a “new manual (that) makes the secrets of comedy accessible…” It is to laugh.
retail price – $20.00 copacetic price – $17.50