McSweeney's Issue 31 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) VIKINGS,MONKS,PHILOSOPHERS,WHORES-OLD FORMS UNEARTHED (A FIRST PRINTING)

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ISBN 10: 1934781347 / ISBN 13: 9781934781340

Published by McSweeney's,USA, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: McSweeney's Issue 31 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) VIKINGS,MONKS,PHILOSOPHERS,WHORES-OLD FORMS UNEARTHED (A FIRST PRINTING)
• Publisher: McSweeney's,USA
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934781347
• ISBN 13: 9781934781340
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Barthelme said that "The Novel of the Soil is dead, as are Expressionism, Impressionism, Futurism, Imagism, Vorticism, Regionalism, Realism, the Kitchen Sink School of Drama, the Theatre of the Absurd, the Theatre of Cruelty, Black Humor, and Gongorism." But he left out, pointedly, the Biji, the Nivola, the Graustarkian Romance, the Consuetudinary, the Whore's Dialogue, the Fornaldarsaga, and the eighties, which are not dead; they are all in McSweeney's 31, as rendered by Douglas Coupland, Joy Williams, John Brandon, Shelley Jackson, Mary Miller, and Will Sheff, along with other fugitive genres recaptured by our finest writers, as part of a project to bring them back alive (except for the eighties, there is actually nothing about the eighties). In an oversized format, with annotations, illustrations, and pantoums, Issue 31 aims to introduce you to all the genres you never knew you loved.