Because it's Fall, f*ckfaces. Realizing that McSweeney's is disfavored on MeFi, and that many will have seen this before, I offer this nonetheless. Because it's that time of the year, and goddamit, it's funny.
posted by mikeand1
on Oct 20, 2011 -
59 comments
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Casey Plett is a twenty-something dude who has dressed in women's clothes with gently increasing frequency over the last six years. He is taking estrogen and testosterone-suppressers, and will probably transition to being a woman in the next year or so. Barring unforeseen circumstances, we're going to put about a 90% probability on this one. Casey's genitalia is not the focus of Balls Out, but it does perennially show up uninvited and eat all the Nutella."
posted by jnaps
on Feb 4, 2011 -
33 comments
Dudes! Did you see the library they've got here? Dude, they've got the latest computerized catalog system—just roll right up to a terminal, type in your search terms, and it gives you a list of titles and call numbers, plus a little map to show you where they all are. Fucking Dewey decimal, man. It's tight. (SLMcSweeney's)
posted by l33tpolicywonk
on Sep 8, 2009 -
80 comments
When is violence justified? I am now the proud owner of one of 3,500 copies of
William T. Vollmann's 3,299-page study of violence,
Rising Up and Rising Down, published by
McSweeney's. The book (if you can call something that's seven volumes a "book") has gotten mixed reviews that lean toward positive: Scott McLemee, writing in the
New York Times Book Review (reg. req.), called it a "flood of
logorrhea," while Steven Moore (a literary critic notable for his work on another long-winded writer,
William Gaddis) wrote in the
Washington Post that it is an "achievement beyond the realm of mere mortals," comparing it to Sir James Frazer's
The Golden Bough.
This
oral history tells the story behind how the book came to be published at McSweeney's, and is an interesting look at what needs to happen for a difficult-to-market work to make its way from its author to the general reading public, in a publishing industry that's unfriendly to this kind of thing, to say the least.
posted by Prospero
on Mar 12, 2004 -
16 comments
