McSweeney's Issue 70(2023)

Michael ChabonAimee BenderCarol Emshwiller

This April, three-time National Magazine Award-winning McSweeney's Quarterly returns with its 70th edition, a paperback with a special die-cut cover design with French flaps.

Inside you'll find brilliant fiction--and two essays--from places near and far, including Patrick Cottrell 's story about a surprisingly indelible Denver bar experience; poignant, previously untranslated fiction from beloved Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen ; Argentine writer Olivia Gallo 's English language debut about rampaging urban clowns; the rise and fall of an unusual family of undocumented workers in rural California by Francisco González ; and Indian writer Amit Chaudhuri 's sojourn to the childhood home of Brooklyn native Neil Diamond.

Readers will be sure to delight in Guggenheim recipient Edward Gauvin 's novella-length memoir-of-sorts in the form of contributors' notes, absorbing short stories about a celebrated pianist ( Lisa Hsiao Chen ) and a reclusive science-fiction novelist ( Eugene Lim ), flash fiction by Véronique Darwin and Kevin Hyde , and a suite of thirty-six very short stories by the outsider poet Sparrow .

Plus letters from Seoul, Buenos Aires, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, and Lake Zurich, Illinois, by E. Tammy Kim , Drew Millard , and more. Compiled by deputy editor James Yeh , McSweeney's Issue 70 , like all editions of the quarterly, features the very best in new literary fiction, in a unique and beautifully designed format, that will occupy a cherished spot on your bookshelves for years to come.