McSweeney's Issue 3: Timothy McSweeney's Windfall Republic(1999)

Carol EmshwillerMichael ChabonAimee Bender

(Incorporating Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and Timothy McSweeney's Blues-Jazz Odyssey, and predating Timothy McSweeney's Unsuccessful Inward, Timothy McSweeney's Finicky Corridor, and Timothy McSweeney -- Leprosarium Years.)

Issue 3 is 288 pages long, and contains three color foldouts. It weighs about eleven pounds. The issue contains:

In the Kingdom of the Unabomber -- a 23,000-word piece by Gary Greenberg, a Connecticut psychotherapist who has maintained, for almost two years now, a correspondence with Ted Kaczynski. This is a superb essay.

Flush, by Judy Budnitz
[Fiction. A family gets cancer]

Anecdotes, Three of Them, by J. Robert Lennon
[Three tales that surprise, then edify]

Convergences, by Lawrence Weschler
[Seemingly (aren't they always?) random images come together and ignite short essays, and give rise to gatefolds]

Tin Chicken, by Tracy Olssen
[The pages of this story, about a household open to the public, are trifurcated, to encourage the flipping back and forth of their segments, much like those head-torso-leg books enjoyed by children of all ages. Really, this story has been engineered, painstakingly, so that it works, makes sense, whatever permutations applied to it. Try it. We fear few are trying it, but it must be cut with scissors and tried to be believed.]

And many more!