Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern

Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern is a literary journal, first published in 1998, edited by Dave Eggers. The first issue featured only works rejected by other magazines, but thereafter the journal began to include pieces written with McSweeney’s in mind. McSweeney’s has since published works by many notable writers, including Denis Johnson, William T. Vollmann, Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Lethem, Michael Chabon, Susan Straight, Roddy Doyle, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Steven Millhauser, Robert Coover, Ann Beattie, and many others.

In 2007 McSweeney's Quarterly received the National Magazine Award for Fiction, for three stories published in 2006: "Wild Child" by T.C. Boyle (Issue 19); "To Sit, Unmoving" by Susan Steinberg (Issue 20); and "The Strange Career of Dr. Raju Gopalarajan" by Rajesh Parameswaran (Issue 21).

In Issue 10 it was claimed that exactly 56 issues of the journal would be published. In Issue 20, this claim was repeated in an ad that stated, "There will be roughly thirty-six [issues] to come; then, a five-year retrenchment."

Published issues

Issue	Date	Description	Cover	Contributors
1	Autumn 1998	"Gegenshein" (paperback) ISBN [none]	File:Mcsweeneys1.jpg	Letters: Ana Marie Cox, John Hodgman, Laura Miller, Tish O'Mara, Glasgow Phillips, Morgan Phillips, William Powers, Don Steinberg, Sarah Vowell, Stuart Wade, Ches Wajda Main contributors: Zev Borrow, Arthur Bradford, Randy Cohen, Courtney Eldridge, Mia Fineman, Mary R. Gallagher, Chris Harris, Marc Herman, Tom Junod, Komar and Melamid, Adrienne Miller, Rick Moody, Mark O'Donnell, Christina Pelham-Fence, Morgan Phillips, Neal Pollack, Heidi Pollock, Todd Pruzan, Ted Rall, Marny Requa, Tim Rogers, Phillip Ryan, Steven J. Shalit, Steve Steinberg, Jill Stoddard, Paul Tullis, David Foster Wallace, Jason Zengerle
2	Late Winter, Early Spring 1999	"Timothy McSweeney's Blues/Jazz Odyssey", or "Pollyanna's Bootless Errand" (paperback) ISBN [none]	File:McSweeneys2.jpg	Letters: Shaun Armour, Tim Carvell, Pamela Grim, Brent Hoff, Jon Langford, Jonathan Lethem, Gary Pike, Neal Pollack, Kate Powers Main contributors: Zev Borrow, John Bowe, Arthur Bradford, Paul Collins, Ana Marie Cox, Amanda Davis, Paul DuChateau, Dave Eggers, Mary Gallagher, John Hodgman, Brent Hoff, Heidi Julavits, Brian Kennedy, Lawrence Krauser, Paul Maliszewski, Todd Pruzan, Daniel Radosh, Marny Requa, Tim Rogers, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, David Shields, M. E. Song, Jim Stallard, Sarah Vowell, Colleen Werthmann, Sean Wilsey
3	Late Summer, Early Fall 1999	"Timothy McSweeney's Windfall Republic" (paperback) ISBN [none]	File:McSweeneys3.jpg	Letters: Jason Adams, Arthur Bradford, Dean F. Curry, Jason De Joux, Camden Joy, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Maliszewski, Denise O'Mara, Morgan Phillips, Christopher P. Riley-Zaliniev, Rodney Rothman, David Shields, Sarah Vowell, Colleen Werthmann Main contributors: Steve Amick, Zev Borow, Judy Budnitz, Paul Collins, Ana Marie Cox, Dave Eggers (as Lucy Thomas), Ken Foster, Gary Greenberg, Brian Greene, Kirsten Haas, Jim Hanas, Aleksandar Hemon, Brent Hoff, Cynthia Kaplan, Komar and Melamid, J. Robert Lennon, Dr. Randy Lewis, Magnus Mills, Rick Moody, Christina Nunez, Mark O'Donnell, Tracy Olssen, T. Z. Parsa, A. G. Pasquella, Todd Pruzan, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Edwin Rozic, Christopher Sorrentino, Saul Steinberg, David Steinhardt, Dr. Jeff Turner, Tom Tomorrow, Dr. Fritz Vollrath, John Warner, E. Weinberger, Lawrence Weschler
4	Late Winter 2000	"Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying" (box containing 14 booklets and one decorated subscription card) ISBN [none]	File:McSweeneys4.jpg Box File:McSweeneys4bks.jpg Booklets	Letters: Arthur Bradford, Christopher P. Riley-Zaleniev, Sarah Vowell, Sean Wilsey Main contributors: Joshuah Bearman, Rachel Cohen, Paul Collins, Lydia Davis, Marcy Dermansky, Jason Eaton, Steve Featherstone, Amy Fusselman, Sheila Heti, Gabe Hudson, Denis Johnson, Nicholas Laughlin, J. Robert Lennon, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Maliszewski, Ben Miller, Rick Moody, Haruki Murakami, David Pacheco, Dan Pope, George Saunders, John Warner, Lawrence Weschler, Ralph Worsey
5	Summer 2000	(hardcover; three different book covers and four different dustjackets) ISBN [none] File:McSweeneys5bkarm.jpg Arm cover File:McSweeneys5arm.jpg Arm jacket File:McSweeneys5bkminot.jpg Minot cover File:McSweeneys5red.jpg Red jacket File:McSweeneys5bkted.jpg Koppel cover File:McSweeneys5whtbk.jpg White jacket(back)	File:McSweeneys5hd.jpg Head jacket	Letters: Lydia Davis, Courtney Eldridge, Gary Pike, Sarah Vowell Main contributors: Steven Barthelme, Joshuah Bearman, Paul Collins, Ann Cummins, RJ Curtis, Lydia Davis, Kelly Feeney, Ben Greenman, Ted Koppel, Paul LaFarge, J. Robert Lennon, Paul Maliszewski, Ben Marcus, Susan Minot, Jason Ockert, Daniel O'Mara, Alastair Reid, Rodney Rothman, Sarah Vowell, David Foster Wallace (as Elizabeth Klemm), Colleen Werthmann, Lawrence Weschler, Chad Willenborg
6	2001	"Timothy McSweeney's Very Intense Heated Passionate Battle/Embrace with They Might Be Giants" (hardcover; two variants, with different front-cover text: 1) WE NOW KNOW WHO. or 2) FIND THEM AND CONVINCE THEM.; includes CD They Might Be Giants vs. McSweeney's, with tracks to accompany stories and artwork in book) ISBN 0-9703355-4-7 ISBN 978-0-9703355-4-8	File:McSweeneys6.jpg File:McSweeneys6card.jpg Cover card	Letters: (none) Main contributors: Nathaniel Bellows, Barry Blitt, Arthur Bradford, Katherine Bradford, Breyten Breytenbach, Judy Budnitz, Jeri Coppola, Ann Cummins, Lydia Davis, Marcel Dzama, Richard Erickson, Walker Evans, Matt Fagan, Steve Featherstone, Mia Fineman, Dave Ford, Ian Frazier, Mary Gallagher, Karl Haendel, Saskia Hamilton, Sheila Heti, Samantha Hunt, Candy Jernigan, Roy Kesey, Walter Koenigstein, Mark O'Donnell, Gina O'Mara, Ad Reinhardt, Amy Sillman, Zadie Smith, Fritz Swanson, Chris Ware, Tommy Wallach, John Warner, Lawrence Weschler, Sean Wilsey CD contributors: Arthur Bradford, Ann Cummins, M. Doughty, Free Cooperation, Philip Glass, Roger Greenawalt, Erika Kawalek, Michael Meredith, The Elegant Too (Chris Maxwell, Phil Hernandez), They Might Be Giants (John Flansburgh, John Linnell), S. E. Willis
7	2001	(hardcover case holding nine booklets, all bound by a rubber band) ISBN 0-9703355-6-3 ISBN 978-0-9703355-6-2	File:McSweeneys7.jpg Case File:McSweeneys7bks.jpg Booklets	Letters: (none) Main contributors: Kevin Brockmeier, Michael Chabon, Steven Connelly, Ann Cummins, Courtney Eldridge, Joan Fry, A. M. Homes, Heidi Julavits, JT Leroy, Allan Seager, William T. Vollmann, John Warner Cover artists: Melissa Beck, Tim Bower, Elizabeth Kairys, Sharon Leong, Katherine Streeter, Chris Ware, Eric White
8	2002	Guest editor: Paul Maliszewski (hardcover) ISBN 0-9719047-1-5 ISBN 978-0-9719047-1-2	File:McSweeneys8.jpg	Letters: Amie Barrodale, Karyn Coughlin, Kevin Guilfoile, Mark Honey, J. Robert Lennon, Edna Mayfair, Gary Pike, Lynne Tillman, Steve Timm, James Wagner, Colleen Werthmann, Randall Williams Main contributors: Amie Barrodale, Jonathan Ames, Tina Barney, Joshuah Bearman, Sandow Birk, Janet Bland, Patrick Borelli, Stephan Chapman, Rachel Cohen, Chris Colin, Michel Desommelier, Ben Dryer, Rikki Ducornet, Monique Dufour, Marcel Dzama, Jeff Edmunds, Eric P. Elshtain, Amy England, Jacques Gauthier, Dan Goldstein, Manuel Gonzalez, Aleksandar Hemon, John Hodgman, Carla Howl, Gabe Hudson, Christine Hume, Samantha Hunt, Mike Jerominski, Dewey L. Johnson IV, Catherine Kasper, Erik P. Kraft, Cynthia Kuhn, Paul LaFarge, J. Robert Lennon, Ben Marcus, Jill Marquis, Michael Martone, Whitney Melton, Eugene Mitman, Rick Moody, Robert Nedelkoff, Cedar Pruitt, Christy Ann Rowe, Matt Sauer, Kevin Shay, Joey Skaggs, Gilbert Sorrentino, Brian Spinks, C. Stelzmann, Darin Strauss, Steve Tomasula, David Ray Vance, Bill Wasik, Lawrence Weschler, Curtis White, John Williams, Sean Wilsey Guest cover designer: Elizabeth Kairys
9	Late Summer, Early Fall 2002	"We Feel This One Is More Urgent" (paperback) ISBN 0-9719047-5-8 ISBN 978-0-9719047-5-0		Letters: (none) Main contributors: Isaac Babel, Doug Dorst, Jeff Greenwald, A. M. Homes, Gabe Hudson, Denis Johnson, Roy Kesey, K. Kvashay-Boyle, Nicholas Minton, Ellen Moore, Val Vinokurov, William T. Vollmann
10	2002	"McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales" Guest editor: Michael Chabon (paperback; pulp magazine style) ISBN [none: this edition was not distributed to retail outlets]	File:McSweeneys10.jpg	Letters: (none) Main contributors: Sherman Alexie, Aimee Bender, Michael Chabon, Dan Chaon, Michael Crichton, Dave Eggers, Harlan Ellison, Carol Emshwiller, Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Glen David Gold, Nick Hornby, Laurie R. King, Stephen King, Elmore Leonard, Kelly Link, Rick Moody, Michael Moorcock, Chris Offutt, Jim Shepard Illustrations: Howard Chaykin Cover art: H. J. Ward
11	2003	"It Can Be Free" (hardcover; issued in four variant faux-leather bindings: black, blue, brown, and yellow/orange; includes DVD) ISBN 1-932416-01-3 ISBN 978-1-932416-01-5	File:McSweeneys11blu.jpg	Letters: Ben Greenman, Trevor Koski, M, Dow Mossman, Emilio Oliveira, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Jeffrey Rotter Main contributors: Daphne Beal, Tom Bissell, Kit Bolstad, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Doug Dorst, Stephen Elliott, Brent Hoff, Samantha Hunt, Denis Johnson, Benjamin Lytal, David Means, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Olmstead, Dr. Steve O'Shea, A. G. Pasaquella, Alison Smith, Sean Warren, Lawrence Welscher DVD only: Jonathan Ames, Marcel Dzama, Neal Farber, John Hodgman, Sarah Vowell
12	2003	"Unpublished, Unknown, &/or Unbelievable" (paperback; divided into four colored sections; cover flaps can be unfolded to view 3D illusion inside) ISBN 1-932416-06-4 ISBN 978-1-932416-06-0	File:McSweeneys12.jpg	Letters: Ryan W. Bradley, Jeffrey Brand, David Dineen-Porter, Stephen Elliott, Eli Horowitz, Gabe Hudson, Sarah Manguso, Anna Pervukhin Main contributors: Steve Almond, Aimee Bender, Jill Bialosky, James Boice, Ryan Boudinot, Judy Budnitz, Douglas Coupland, Ann Cummins, Andrea Deszo, Roddy Doyle, David Ebershoff, Jennifer Egan, Ben Ehrenreich, Alicia Erian, John Henry Fleming, Emma Forrest, Glen David Gold, Myla Goldberg, Aleksandar Hemon, Gabe Hudson, Laird Hunt, Jessica Francis Kane, Steve Korver, Andy Lamey, J. Robert Lennon, Jonathan Lethem, Wythe Marschall, Rhett Miller, Rick Moody, Mark Nesbitt, Rene Nuijens, Peter Orner, Julie Orringer, Salvador Plascencia, Shann Ray, Sarah Raymont, Stacey Richter, Katie Roiphe, Rachel Sherman, Chad Simpson, Steve Stiefel, Darin Strauss, Valerie Sutton, Dean Wareham, Ashley Warlick Cover art: Christian Northeast
13	Spring 2004	"An Assorted Sampler of North American Comic Drawings, Strips, and Illustrated Stories, &c." Guest editor: Chris Ware (hardcover; dustjacket unfolds into two large artworks; includes two mini-comics) ISBN 1-932416-08-0 ISBN 978-1-932416-08-4	File:McSweeneys13.jpg	Letters: (none) Main contributors: Lynda Barry, Mark Beyer, Chester Brown, Jeffrey Brown, Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns, Michael Chabon (as Malachi B. Cohen), Daniel G. Clowes, David Collier, R. Crumb, Kim Deitch, Julie Doucet, Debbie Drechsler, H. C. "Bud" Fisher, Ira Glass, Glen David Gold, Milt Gross, David Heatley, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Ben Katchor, Kaz, Chip Kidd, Joe Matt, Richard McGuire, John McLenan, Mark Newgarden, Gary Panter, John Porcellino, Archer Prewitt, Ronald J. Rege Jr., Joe Sacco, Richard Sala, Tim Samuelson, Seth, Art Spiegelman, Adrian Tomine, Rodolphe Topffer, John Updike, Chris Ware, Jim Woodring Dustjacket art: Chris Ware
14	Early Fall 2004	"Timothy McSweeney's at War for the Foreseeable (Shitbrained) Future and He's Never Been So Scared" (paperback ISBN 1-932416-12-9 ISBN 978-1-932416-12-1	File:McSweeneys14.jpg	Letters: Jonathan Ames, Charlie, Brent Hoff, Nick Hornby, Laura Jensen, Timothy McSweeney, A. G. Pasquella, Simon, Sarah Vowell Main contributors: Chris Adrian, Jessica Anthony, Chris Bachelder, Joshuah Bearman, Ryan Boudinot, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Kate Braverman, Robert Olen Butler, Lindsay Carleton, Silvia DiPierdomenico, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Denis Johnson, Jessica Lamb-Shapiro, Claire Light, Malinda McCollum, Jim Shepard, Susan Straight, Wells Tower, Lawrence Weschler
15	Winter 2005	"The Icelandic Issue" (hardcover; includes Icelandic tabloid mini-magazine) ISBN 1-932416-14-5 ISBN 978-1-932416-14-5		Letters: (none) Main contributors: Guðbergur Bergsson, Birna Anna Björnsdóttir, Kiara Brinkman, Judy Budnitz, Jimmy Chen, Roddy Doyle, Þórarinn Eldjárn, Gyrðir Elíasson, Seth Fried, Einar Már Guðmundsson, Eric Hanson, Silja Hauksdóttir, Hallgrímur Helgason, Roy Kesey, Andri Snœr Magnason, Steven Millhauser, Bragi Ólafsson, Padgett Powell, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Sjón, Oddný Sturludóttir Cover art: Leif Parsons
16	Summer 2005	(hardcover packaging; includes quarterly, novella, deck-of-cards story, and a Timothy-embossed plastic comb) ISBN 1-932416-15-3 ISBN 978-1-932416-15-2	File:McSweeneys16.jpg Case File:McSweeneys16bks.jpg Contents	Letters: (none) Main contributors: Ann Beattie, Robert Coover, Roddy Doyle, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Brian Evenson, Denis Johnson, Adam Levin, Harry Mathews, Miranda Mellis, Nathaniel Minton, Kevin Moffett, Hannah Pittard Card backs: Michael Kupperman Beattie cover art: George Slavik Case art: Joanna Davis
17	October/ November 2005	"Made to Look Like It Came in Your Mailbox" (packaged as a bundle of mail; includes letters, magazines titled Yeti Researcher and Unfamiliar, sausage catalog, circular for Pantalaine "plural clothing", and Envelope, containing reproductions of "new artwork") ISBN 1-932416-31-5 ISBN 978-1-932416-31-2	File:McSweeneys17.jpg	Letters: (Yeti Researcher) Joshua Rivkin, Kaarl Mustanen Main contributors: Joshuah Bearman, Erich Bluhm, Judy Budnitz, Rebecca Curtis, Trinie Dalton, Evan Derkacz, Stephen Elliott, Peter Ferry, Avital Gad-Cykman, Brian Gardiner, Jon Alain Guzik, Eric Hanson, John Haskell, Brent Hoff, Gabe Hudson, Ronni Kapos, Starlee Kine, Kenneth Koch, Sarah Manguso, Laurenn McCubbin, Greg Moore, Kirby Olson, Jim Ruland, Jim Shepard, J. Silver, Mark Sundeen, Katie Wudel Envelope: David Byrne, Georgeanne Deen, Camille Rose Garcia, Salomon Huerta, Steve Klamm, Jasiu Krajewski, David Mamet, Tucker Nichols, Manuel Ocampo, Clare Rojas, Mark Ryden, Jaime Scholnick Pantalaine: Brian McMullen (concept, writing, garment design, and circular design); additional garment design: Naomi Donabedian, Amy Karr, Katie McMullen, Ryan Nole, Sonia Tay, Jesse Wardlow; photography: Ryann Cooley, Steve Moors; garment models: Leah Beeferman, Sophia Boukidis, Andrew Brotzman, Ali Canning, Brad Canning, Joy Canning, Tori Canning, Esy Casey, Alison Cool, Georgia Cool, Katie McMullen, David Meiklejohn, Sonia Tay, Sunny Troy, Zachary Troy, Steven Villereal, Mims Wright
18	Winter 2005/2006	(paperback; packaged with Wholphin DVD magazine, Issue #1) ISBN 1-932416-38-2 ISBN 978-1-932416-38-1	File:McSweeneys18.jpg	Letters: (none) Main contributors: Alan Ackman, Chris Adrian, Roddy Doyle, Rachel Haley Himmelhaber, Adam Levin, Joe Meno, Philipp Meyer, Yannick Murphy, Joyce Carol Oates, Daniel Orozco, Nelly Reifler, Deb Olin Unferth, Lawrence Weschler, Edmund White Maze specialist: Jason Shiga
19	Spring 2006	"Old Facts, New Fiction, & a Novella by T.C. Boyle" (cigar box containing quarterly and 15 reproductions of government publications, political propaganda, photographs, and other ephemera) ISBN 1-932416-48-X ISBN 978-1-932416-48-0	File:McSweeneys19box.jpg Cigar box (lid) File:McSweeneys19pcs.jpg Contents	Letters: (none) Main contributors: T. Coraghessan Boyle, Sean Casey, Brendan Connell, Adam Golaski, Christopher Howard Cigar box art: Michael Kupperman
20	Summer 2006	(hardcover; every fourth page is a full-color illustration; includes a booklet, attached inside the back cover, containing the first part of The Children's Hospital, a novel by Chris Adrian) ISBN 1-932416-52-8 ISBN 978-1-932416-52-7	File:McSweeneys20.jpg	Letters: (none) Contributing writers: Tony D'Souza, Aaron Gwynn, Ben Jahn, Roy Kesey, Sam Miller, Kevin Moffett, Jack Pendarvis, Sarah Raymont, Anthony Schneider, Susan Steinberg, J. Erin Sweeney, Corinna Vallianatos, Rod White Contributing artists: Franz Ackermann, Mamma Andersson, Kevin Christy, Anna Conway, Holly Coulis, Amy Cutler, Jules de Balincourt, Chris Duncan, Echo Eggebrecht, Niklas Eneblom, Jeff Gauntt, Angelina Gualdoni, Ernst Haeckel, Wendy Heldmann, Jason Holley, Håvard Homstvedt, Susan Logoreci, Ashley Macomber, Jacob Magraw-Mickelson, Jodie Mohr, Laura Owens, Clare Rojas, Henri Rousseau, Rachel Salomon, Andrew Schoultz, Keith Andrew Shore, Rachell Sumpter, Fred Tomaselli, Kuniyoshi Utagawa Cover art: Jacob Magraw-Mickelson
21	Fall 2006	(paperback; fully illustrated cover, with a small flap on the front that unfolds to create a continuous picture around all four sides; eight variant covers) ISBN 1-932416-61-7 ISBN 978-1-932416-61-9	File:McSweeneys21fcvr.jpg File:McSweeneys21pan.jpg 360° view	Letters: (none) Main contributors: Greg Ames, Arthur Bradford, Roddy Doyle, Stephen Elliott, Chloe Hooper, Miranda July, Kevin Moffett, Yannick Murphy, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Orner, Rajesh Parameswaran, Holly Tavel, A. Nathan West, Christian Winn Contributing artists: Nate Beaty, Robert Goodin, Leif Parsons, Matt Rota Cover art: Keith Jones
22	2007	"Three Books Held Within By Magnets" (faux-leather hardcover case with a magnet bound into the spine, holding three paperbacks with metal strips bound into their spines) ISBN 1-932416-66-8 ISBN 978-1-932416-66-4	File:McSweeneys22cvr.jpg Case File:McSweeneys22bks.jpg Books	Letters: (none) Contributors to Book 1, "From the Notebook: The Unwritten Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald": Stephany Aulenback, John Beckman, Marc Bojanowski, Judy Budnitz, Ian Caldwell, Rachel Ingalls, Sam Lipsyte, Tom Lombardi, Carey Mercer, Lydia Millet, Sigrid Nunez, Michelle Orange, Salvador Plascencia, Matthew Sharpe, Miriam Toews, Jincy Willett, Diane Williams Contributors to Book 2, "The State of Constraint: New Work by Oulipo": Marcel Bénabou, François Caradec, Lynn Crawford, Frédéric Forte, Paul Fournel, Anne F. Garréta, Michelle Grangaud, Jacques Jouet, Hervé Le Tellier, Harry Mathews, Ian Monk, Jacques Roubaud, Olivier Salon Contributors to Book 3, "The Poetry Chains of Dominic Luxford: Ten Poets Pick Ten More and So On": Elizabeth Alexander, Ralph Angel, John Ashbery, Caroline Bergvall, David Berman, Michael Burkard, Tina Chang, Olena Kaiytiak Davis, Mark Doty, Lynn Emanuel, Ángel Garcia, Forrest Hamer, francine j. harris, Terrance Hayes, Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, Denis Johnson, A. Van Jordan, Thomas Kane, Mary Karr, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gerry LaFemina, Patrick Lawler, Sarah Lindsay, Harryette Mullen, Alice Notley, Michael Ondaatje, Linda Tomol Pennisi, Heidi Johannesen Poon, Courtney Queeney, Brett Eugene Ralph, Atsuro Riley, Lisa Robertson, Pattiann Rogers, Mary Ruefle, Kay Ryan, Tomaž Šalamun, Kaia Sand, Bernd Sauerman, Brenda Shaughnessy, Charles Simic, Tracy K. Smith, Brandon Som, Mary Stebbins, Larissa Szporluk, James Tate, Rodrigo Toscano, C. D. Wright, Dean Young
23	Spring 2007	"Still Going Strong / Like Castro (We Meant Ramón)" (hardcover; dustjacket unfolds, with an illustration by Andrea Dezsö on one side, and, on the other, several short-short stories and nearly 200 drawings—presented in a volvelle-like circular array—by Dave Eggers; "Comedy by the Numbers" booklet attached inside back cover) ISBN 1-932416-76-5 ISBN 978-1-932416-76-3	File:McSweeneys23a.jpg	Letters: (none) Main contributors: Chris Bachelder, Ann Beattie, Caren Beilin, Roddy Doyle, Dave Eggers, Clancy Martin, Deb Olin Unferth, Chris Stokes, Wells Tower, Shawn Vestal, April Wilder Dustjacket (exterior) art and interior illustrations: Andrea Dezsö Dustjacket (interior) design: Dave Eggers and Brian McMullen
24	Fall 2007	"Trouble" and "Come Back, Donald Barthelme" (hardcover; the two parts are bound dos-à-dos; includes a booklet, attached to the verso of the front free endpaper of "Trouble", containing the first part of Bowl of Cherries, a novel by Millard Kaufman) ISBN 978-1-932416-77-0		Letters: (none) Contributing writers: "Trouble": Jonathan Ames, Aaron Gwyn, Eric Hanson, Christopher R. Howard, Joe Meno, Philippe Soupault, Robin Walz (translator of the Soupault story) "Come Back, Donald Barthelme": Donald Barthelme, Justin Taylor, Ann Beattie, Cliff Chase, Robert Coover, Tracy Daugherty, David Gates, Kim Herzinger, Oscar Hijuelos, Edward Hirsch, Brian Kiteley, Gary Lutz, Mark Jay Mirsky, Lance Olsen, Grace Paley, Padgett Powell, George Saunders, Michael Silverblatt, Tom Steele, Brian Kim Stefans, Frederic Tuten, Lawrence Weschler, Lois Parkinson Zamora Cover art: Rachell Sumpter
25	Fall/Winter 2007	(hardcover) ISBN 978-1-932416-84-8		Letters: (none) Main contributors: Emily Anderson, Kenneth Bonert, David Hollander, Chloe Hooper, Conor Kilpatrick, Alexander MacBride, Steven Millhauser, Joyce Carol Oates, Padgett Powell, Terry Wright Cover illustration: Leah Hayes Interior illustrations: Amy Jean Porter

Notes

^ Contributors: A few of the purported contributors—especially in the Letters sections—are pseudonyms used by Eggers and others associated with the journal. Also, although Dale Peck appears in the list of contributors at the end of Issue 1, his name is not attached to any actual contribution, and his name does not appear in the Appendix to The Better of McSweeney's, which lists all of the main contributors to Issues 1 through 10.
^ Issue 1: First printing of 2,500 copies.
^ Issues 1-3: The first three issues were reprinted as a set in 2002, and again in 2006.
^ Issue 5: The four dustjackets: 1) medical drawing of an arm, with text, 2) illustration of a person with a head lesion, 3) plain white cover, and 4) "Simple red cover". All four have a list of contributors on the back; jacket 3 also has the illustration of the head lesion and two medical drawings of arms. The three book covers: A) front similar to jacket 1, but with a different arm and different text, which is reversed; the back shows a collection of small black-and-white drawings with the caption, "The Assembled", B) an outtake from Susan Minot's piece on Uganda, front and back, and C) color photographs of Ted Koppel, front and back.[1] Also, the jackets and books were not matched randomly. Jackets 1 and 4 go over book A, jacket 2 over book B, and jacket 3 over book C.
^ Issue 10: The retail edition was issued, in a slightly different form, as a Vintage Original paperback in February 2003. (ISBN 1-4000-3339-X ISBN 978-1-4000-3339-3) It was followed in 2004 by a companion volume, McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, also edited by Chabon and published as a Vintage Original. (ISBN 1-4000-7874-1 ISBN 978-1-4000-7874-5)
^ Issue 11: 20,000 total copies: black, 9,000 copies; brown, 8,300; yellow/orange, 1,800; blue, 900. [2]
^ Issue 12: Contents and Letters (white); "Twelve new stories from twelve new writers" (pink); novella by Roddy Doyle (blue); Twenty-Minute Stories (green).
^ Issue 17: The mail is addressed to: [Sgt.] Maria Vasquez, 4416 North 16th Street, Arlington, VA 22207
^ Issue 21: According to the editor's note on the copyright page, there are "eight different covers, quiet variations made possible by a quirk of the printing process." The variations are a result of different left/right displacements of the illustration.
^ Issue 22: The subtitles of Books 2 and 3 are as they appear on the front covers of the books; different subtitles are shown on the case.

McSweeney's anthologies

• Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004)
• The Best of McSweeney's, Volume 1 (Hamish Hamilton, 2004)
• The Best of McSweeney's, Volume 2 (Hamish Hamilton, 2005)
• The Better of McSweeney's: Volume One — Issues 1 – 10, Stories and Letters (McSweeney's Books, 2005)

External links

• McSweeney's Internet Tendency, official site of the McSweeney's publishing house.
• "Mighty Muse" by Tai Moses, a 1998 review of the debut issue, from the Silicon Valley online weekly Metroactive.
• "Mighty McSweeney's: David Eggers's Quarterly Builds a Following" by Matt Goldberg, a 1999 interview from The Village Voice.
• "Review of Literary Magazines: McSweeney's" by Martin Riker, a 1999 review from Context, at the Center for Book Culture.org.
• "The 98-Pound Gorilla in the Room" by Ruth Franklin, a 2002 review of Issue 10 and the "McSweeney's short story", from Slate.com.
• "Amazing Stories: Michael Chabon's Dime-Store Serenade" by Mark Holcomb, a 2003 review of Issue 10 from The Village Voice.