McSweeney's #8

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Edited by Paul Maliszewski

McSweeney's

Due/Published June 2002, 340 pages, cloth

ISBN 0971904715

Issue No. 8 features fiction, essays, letters, and interviews that explore the sometimes-fuzzy boundary between fiction and fact. There are some stories in this issue that read like fact but are actually fiction. There are some essays that you will swear must be fiction but are, in fact, completely true. There's an interview with an artist whose paintings look like the work of a time centuries past and an interview with a person who holds fake press conferences.

All new writing by Jonathan Ames, Rachel Cohen, Rikki Ducornet, Monique Dufour, Brian Evenson, Aleksandar Hemon, Gabe Hudson, Samantha Hunt, Paul LaFarge, Ben Marcus, Michael Martone, Rick Moody, Kevin Shay, Gilbert Sorrentino, Darin Strauss, Lynne Tillman, Lawrence Weschler, Curtis White, and many, many more.