McSweeney's Issue 70 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) in Bloomington, MN

This April, three-time National Magazine Award-winning McSweeney's Quarterly returns with its 70th edition, a paperback with a special die-cut cover design with French flaps. Inside you’ll find brilliant fiction—and two essays—from places near and far, including
Patrick Cottrell
’s story about a surprisingly indelible Denver bar experience; poignant, previously untranslated fiction from beloved Danish writer
Tove Ditlevsen
; Argentine writer
Olivia Gallo
’s English language debut about rampaging urban clowns; the rise and fall of an unusual family of undocumented workers in rural California by
Francisco González
; and Indian writer
Amit Chaudhuri
’s sojourn to the childhood home of Brooklyn native Neil Diamond. Readers will be sure to delight in Guggenheim recipient
Edward Gauvin
’s novella-length memoir-of-sorts in the form of contributors’ notes, absorbing short stories about a celebrated pianist (
Lisa Hsiao Chen
) and a reclusive science-fiction novelist (
Eugene Lim
), flash fiction by
Véronique Darwin
and
Kevin Hyde
, and a suite of thirty-six very short stories by the outsider poet
Sparrow
. Plus letters from Seoul, Buenos Aires, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, and Lake Zurich, Illinois, by
E. Tammy Kim
,
Drew Millard
, and more. Compiled by deputy editor
James Yeh
McSweeney's Issue 70
, like all editions of the quarterly, features the very best in new literary fiction, in a unique and beautifully designed format, that will occupy a cherished spot on your bookshelves for years to come.