Cover of McSweeney's #17

McSweeney's #17

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern series

Issue 17is not an ordinary issue of McSweeney's. It is, however, an ordinary-looking bundle of mail, stacked and rubber-banded, containing the usual items: a recent issue of Yeti Researcher;a large envelope, called Envelope,containing fine oversized reproductions of new art; a sausage-basket catalog; a flyer for slashed prices on garments that are worn by more than one person at a time; a new magazine of experimental fiction called Unfamiliar;a couple letters... the usual. This might be the strangest and most pleasure-giving issue yet.

Setting
21st centuryUSA
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 280 pages

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