Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (Issue 79)
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Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (Issue 79) Details
Coming to you at the intersection of book and tapestry, the seventy-ninth issue of the 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.
As 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!
Blow a kiss goodbye to summer, and brush your hands over the neon-threaded landscape of Issue 79 to feel a magazine that, both inside and out, is truly like no other.
Featuring new stories by:
Joseph Earl Thomas
Valeria Parrella, translated from Italian by Sonya Gray Redi
T.C. Boyle
James Kaelan
Caroline Beimford
Diane Williams
Ahmed Naji, translated from Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette
A new essay by:
Camonghne Felix
Novel excerpts by:
Josephine Rowe
Joanna Ruocco
Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff
A graphic novel excerpt by:
Patrick Keck
A portfolio of paintings by:
Leanne Shapton
Letters by:
Meng Jin
Abraham Adams
Jac Jemc
Rebekah Bergman
Hannah Pittard
Enrico Rotelli
100 pages. Embroidered cover. 9¼ × 6⅜ inches.
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