New and Upcoming Titles From Mcsweeney's
By McSweeney's Publishing
By McSweeney's Publishing
Despite moving through the most unique, difficult, nonstop history-making year we can remember, we here at McSweeney's have kept ourselves quite busy with some of our favorite work we've ever published, alongside reprinting some much beloved old and new classics just in time for your discovery. Take a look at what we've been up to. We highly encourage you to discover our titles here and then purchase them from your favorite indie bookseller.
Ivory Shoals
John Brandon
$26.00“John Brandon is a marvelous storyteller. With diamond-cut elegance and wit, Brandon’s suspenseful tale depicts a young man’s search for kinship in a beguiling and often terrifying world. Ivory Shoals is a book of grit, heart, and intricate beauty.” —Patrick Cottrell, author of Sorry to Disrupt the Peace
You People
Nikita Lalwani
$26.00“(C)ompact yet powerful… this timely and adept novel deserves wide readership.” —Booklist
Tragic Magic: (Of the Diaspora - North America)
Wesley Brown and Ismail Muhammad
$24.00 $22.32" Tragic Magic is a tremendous affirmation. One hell of a writer." - James Baldwin
Praisesong for the Widow: (Of the Diaspora - North America)
$24.00 $22.32
“There is no limit to the kind of readership to which this novel will appeal.” —Booklist
Spilt Milk
Courtney Zoffness
$22.00“Gentle, playful and laced with subtle wit, these essays are a welcome balm in an insane and un-gentle time.” —Mary Gaitskill, author of This is Pleasure and Bad Behavior
McSweeney's Issue 63 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
$26.00
featuring four posthumous, never-before-published short stories by acclaimed author and dear friend Stephen Dixon, with an introduction and retrospective on the late writer’s work by author—and onetime Dixon student—Porochista Khakpour
The the Lights and Types of Ships at Night
Dave Eggers and Annie Dills
$18.99 $17.66“You may have heard of Dave Eggers. You may also have heard of this book, soaked in candy-colored lights and childlike hyperbole in service of beauty. Eggers takes the rudimentary idea of a picture book about boats and turns it into a collection of nighttime images that seep off the page into your dreams. Unforgettable.” —Betsy Bird, Collection Development Manager of the Evanston Public Library, and the former Youth Materials Specialist of New York Public Library
Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures
$14.00 $13.02
“Black Imagination is somehow as innovatively utopic as it is sincerely soulful. I’ve never felt the physical feeling of pages melting in my hands or chapters folding themselves into squadrons of black airplanes flying to freedom because I’ve never experienced an art object like Black Imagination. It is exquisite art in action.” —Kiese Laymon
My Favorite Girlfriend Was a French Bulldog
Legna Rodriguez Iglesias
$22.00 $20.46“This profound and delightful novel-in-stories… is a breathtaking exploration of identity, country, art, and family.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The the Game: A Digital Turning Point
Alessandro Baricco
$24.00“Are our Big Tech overlords rewiring our brains? Do they know precisely how, or what the end result will be? Who can guide us through this territory with the appropriate mixture of slyness and sure-footedness, delight and terror, with subtle and jarring insights arriving at the rate of at least one per paragraph? The answers, respectively, are absolutely, absolutely not, and Alessandro Barrico.” —Andrew Marantz of The New Yorker
My Gaza: A City in Photographs
$35.00
“Blistering portraits of a territory plagued by violence… atmospheric, visually moving.” —Kirkus (starred review)
The the Fire in His Wake
Spencer Wolff
$28.00“There is not a page of “The Fire in His Wake” that is not skillfully written and compelling… an utterly successful first novel, one that sports a flair for harrowing adventure matched with a complex political conscience… it is not too early to say Mr. Wolff’s novel will be one of the best debuts of the year.” —The East Hampton Star
Of Color: Essays
Jaswinder Bolina
$18.00 $16.74“Jaswinder Bolina’s insightful, raw and honest collection of brilliant essays illuminate the joys and pains of being a specific person Of Color and through his unique lens we also come to understand the universal ongoing story of America.” —Wajahat Ali
Heaven
Emerson Whitney
$24.00“Emerson Whitney’s first prose book is a frank and absorbing examination of transness, brokenness, mothering, femininity, embodiment and truth.” —Ms. Magazine
One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses
Lucy Corin
$15.00A timely classic, back in print at last!
Keep Scrolling Till You Feel Something: 21 Years of Humor from McSweeney's Internet Tendency
$30.00 $27.90
The only cure for the world’s malaise is a 3-lb humor book with gilt edges, thumb cuts, and a ribbon marker. Now in its second printing.