McSweeney's Issue 62: The Queer Fiction Issue(2020)

Carol EmshwillerAimee BenderMichael Chabon

McSweeney’s 62: The Queer Fiction Issue collects absurd, bold, bleak, humorous, and astonishing works of fiction and art by queer writers of all orientations. Inside this luxurious hardcover, you’ll find stories about storm chasers and Colombian supermodels, about talking plants and DIY bands and camboys and encounters with the dead. Contributors include Bryan Washington, Eileen Myles, Kristen Arnett, Sarah Gerard, Juli Delgado Lopera, Gabby Bellot, Denne Michele, Emma Copley Eisenberg, K-Ming Chang, and many more, with dazzling full-color illustrations throughout by Derek Abella. Guest-edited and featuring an introduction by Patrick Cottrell, and filled to a surfeit with letters, stories, and dazzling full-color comics and art, you’ll be jealously hoarding this collection for decades to come.

Featuring original stories by:
Eileen Myles
Bryan Washington
Emma Copley Eisenberg
Christopher James Llego
K-Ming Chang
Venita Blackburn
hurmat kazmi
Juli Delgado Lopera
Kristen N. Arnett
Gabrielle Bellot
Paul Dalla Rosa
Timi Odueso
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
Vi Khi Nao
Denne Michele
Sarah Gerard
Bridget Brewer

Full-color comics by:
Garrett Young
Lee Lai

Full-color illustrations throughout by:
Derek Abella

And letters by:
RL Goldberg
Amanda Monti
Aarushi Agni
Drew Pham
Emerson Whitney

Cover by:
Angie Wang

Title-page and table-of-contents illustrations by:
Ariel Davis