Author(s): Claire Boyle (Editor); Dave Eggers (Editor); Stephen King (Contribution by)

Literature | Essay | Short Stories | USA

McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly returns with 66th issue. A beautiful back-to-basics paperback, Issue 66 features a band-new story by Stephen King. Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned (there have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an issue with two spines, an issue with a magnetic binding, an issue that looked like a bundle of junk mail, and an issue that looked like a sweaty human head), but always brings you the very best in new literary fiction.
Praise for McSweeney's Quarterly A key barometer of the literary climate.-The New York Times McSweeney's is so much more than a magazine; it's a vital part of our culture. -Geoff Dyer, McSweeney's contributor and author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and Otherwise Known as the Human Condition

McSweeney’s National Magazine Award-winning quarterly brings you our 66th issue, an elegant paperback festooned with coded illustrations by Jacques Kleynhans (see how many versions of the number 66 you can spot). Featuring “Willie the Weirdo,” a brand-new story by legendary horror writer Stephen King; plus stories by Taisia Kitaiskaia, Hernan Diaz, and T.C. Boyle; poems by Soviet poet Anna Akhmatova newly translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky; a surreal full-color comic by Teddy Goldenberg; letters from Samantha Hunt and Kate Folk; and more. McSweeney’s Issue 66 promises a rip-roaring time you won’t soon forget—peel back its pages and dig in.

Featuring original stories by:
Nicky Gonzalez
T. C. Boyle
Hernan Diaz
Corinna Vallianatos
Stephen King
Taisia Kitaiskaia
Victor Ladis Schultz
Carl Napolitano
Ada Zhang

An illustrated story by Teddy Goldenberg

Poetry by Anna Akhmatova
Translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky

And letters by:
Samantha Hunt
Shayna Conde
Kate Folk
Afabwaje Kurian