{"product_id":"mcsweeneys-issue-79-mcsweeneys-quarterly-concern","title":"McSweeney's Issue 79 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComing to you at the intersection of book and tapestry, the seventy-ninth issue of our National Magazine Award–winning quarterly is embroidered from head to toe—using precisely 133,095 stitches of thread—with the art of Marta Monteiro. Inside this tactile, textile, tangerine-backdropped, cloth-bound art object are nine new stories, three fresh novel excerpts, six timely letters, an essay as sharp as a blade, a stunningly surreal slice of a graphic novel by Patrick Keck, and a shockingly beautiful, hot-pink suite of Mary Magdalenes painted by Leanne Shapton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs your fingers caress the raised topography of this issue’s beyond-belief weave, marvel at a story by Joseph Earl Thomas in which time stops mid-dunk; a novel excerpt by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff in which invented languages make a play; a story by Ahmed Naji that circles Cairo rap clashes; a captivating, climate-terror portrait of a story by T.C. Boyle; three totally crisp, sentence-gem-adorned stories by Diane Williams; dazzling letters by Jac Jemc, Meng Jin, Rebekah Bergman, and so much more!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlow a kiss goodbye to summer, and brush your hands over the neon-threaded landscape of \u003ci\u003eIssue 79\u003c\/i\u003e to feel a magazine that, both inside and out, is truly like no other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEver 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McSweeney's","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53391609331985,"sku":"9781963270204","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/6890\/3185\/files\/cover_045c6ad3-faf6-484e-9899-7e5d308f1ef8.jpeg?v=1776867220","url":"https:\/\/www.stablebookgroup.com\/products\/mcsweeneys-issue-79-mcsweeneys-quarterly-concern","provider":"Stable Book Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}