Mc Sweeney's Issue 57 (Mc Sweeney's Quarterly Concern)

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Our mammoth anniversary issue includes a bumper crop of new art and writing: a 24-page full-color comic, a letters section commemorating our big anniversary year, a fair-sized collection of stories, a graphic nonfiction experiment called The American Pie, and a booklet of cliffhanger tales--five booklets, in sum, all packaged in an elaborate three-fold case.

Featuring an unbelievable lineup of new and regular contributors, including Oyinkan Braithwaite, Claudia Rankine, Elena Passarello, Bob Odenkirk, Brian Evenson, Adrienne Celt, Lorrie Moore, Alison Bechdel, Jeff Tweedy, Jerry Saltz, Avery Trufleman, Hanif Abdurraqib, Julio Torres, Ken Burns, and many many more besides.

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Hanif Abdurraqib is a writer from the east side of Columbus, Ohio. Brittany K. Allen is a Brooklyn-based writer and performer. Her prose has been published on/in The Kenyon Review, Longreads, Catapult, and elsewhere, and her short fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Mari Andrew is a writer and artist who posts daily-ish illustrations on Instagram. David Autor is Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts of Technology. His research studies the labor-market impacts of technological change and globalization. Mona Awad is the author of the novels Bunny (Viking, June 2019) and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl (Penguin, 2016). She holds an MFA in Fiction from Brown University and a PhD in Creative Writing and English from the University of Denver. Alison Bechdel is the author of the graphic memoirs Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, and Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama. For twenty-five years, she wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. Ken Burns has been making documentary films for over forty years. Ken has directed and produced some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made.  Elizabeth Catte is a writer and historian based in Staunton, Virginia. She is the author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia and Pure America. Adrienne Celt is the author of the novels Invitation to a Bonfire and The Daughters, as well as a collection of comics, Apocalypse How? An Existential Bestiary. She lives in Tucson, Arizona. Nikki Darling is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. Katrina Dodson is the translator of The Complete Stories, by Clarice Lispector, winner of the 2016 PEN Translation Prize and other awards.  Her writing has appeared in The Believer, McSweeney's, Guernica, and elsewhere. Dodson holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She teaches translation at Columbia University. George Edema is a husband of one, father of three, occasional writer and artist, teacher of the Holy Bible, graduate of Auburn University and Covenant Theological Seminary, vintage baseball card enthusiast. Known to wander off at times. Brian Evenson is the author of over a dozen works of fiction, most recently the story collection Song for the Unraveling of the World. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts. Karen Gu's fiction has appeared in Paper Darts and The Margins. Nick Hornby is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and award-winning author. Morgan Jerkins is the author of the New York Times bestseller, This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America. Jim Koebel is an attorney based in North Carolina. Mimi Lok is the author of the story collection Last of Her Name, published October 2019 by Kaya Press. Mimi is also the executive director and editor of Voice of Witness, a human rights/oral history nonprofit she cofounded that amplifies marginalized voices through a book series and a national education program. Ally Maki is a Japanese-American actress known for her roles in Toy Story 4, Cloak and Dagger, and Wrecked. Clare Malone is a senior political writer at FiveThirtyEight.com  Her writing has also appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Harper's, and Elle. Nicholas Mancusi's writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Time, Joyland, and many other publications. He lives in Brooklyn. Robert McRuer is Professor of English at The George Washington University, where he teaches queer theory, disability studies, and American literature. Matthew Milia is the lead singer and songwriter for Frontier Ruckus. He lives in Detroit and recently released his debut solo album, Alone at St. Hugo. Lorrie Moore. Tucker Nichols is an artist whose work has been exhibited around the world. He has co-authored two children's books: Crabtree (with Jon Nichols) and This Bridge Will Not Be Gray (with Dave Eggers). He lives in northern California. Peter Orner is the author of six books, including Am I Alone Here? a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches at Dartmouth College. Elena Passarello is the author of two essay collections, Let Me Clear My Throat and Animals Strike Curious Poses. Mike Sacks has written eight books and for various publications. He lives in New York. Jerry Saltz is senior art critic at New York magazine. Elissa Schappell is the author of two books of fiction, Blueprints for Building Better Girls, and Use Me, a runner up for the PEN Hemingway Award. She is also a journalist, essayist, and book reviewer, as well as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and a founding-editor of Tin House. Elizabeth Stix's stories have appeared in McSweeney's, Tin House, The Southampton Review, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, and Best Microfiction. Jonny Sun (stylized as "jomny sun") is the author and illustrator of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too and the illustrator of the New York Times Bestseller Gmorning, Gnight! by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Avery Trufelman is a producer for the design podcast 99% Invisible and the host of Articles of Interest, a series about fashion. Jeff Tweedy is a founding member and leader of the American rock band Wilco, and before that the cofounder of the alt-country band Uncle Tupelo. Deb Olin Unferth is the author of five books. The sixth, Barn 8, will appear in 2020. Shelly Oria is the author of New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014), and of the collaborative digital novella Clean, commissioned by WeTransfer and McSweeney's, which received two Lovie Awards from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. David Wallace-Wells is deputy editor at New York magazine, and author of The Uninhabitable Earth. Rick Wilson is the author of Everything Trump Touches Dies and a former Republican ad maker and political strategist.