McSweeney's Announces Hour-Long Radio Special Starring Wayne Coyne

Off-beat publisher and website McSweeney’s has announced that they’ve commissioned writer Richard Parks to create an hour-long “War of the Worlds”-style radio special featuring Wayne Coyne and The Flaming Lips....  read more

Dave Eggers' 826 Center Comes to D.C.

Washington, D.C.’s budding young writers will have a new place to practice their craft and prepare their heartbreaking works of staggering genius....  read more

San Fransisco Panorama: McSweeney's New Newspaper (Awesome of the Day)

Part of the beauty of subscribing to McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern is never knowing what to expect. This December, Issue 33 of Dave Eggers’ literary journal will be in the form of an ancient delivery system for news, analysis and the funny papers—a newspaper. The one-off broadsheet, called the San Francisco Panorama will feature 32 pages of news, 24 pages of sports, 16 pages of comics and 16 pages of food, all on high-quality newsprint in an apparent effort to rub the noses of newspaper men and women across the nation in what they’ve lost....  read more

San Fransisco Panorama: McSweeney's New Newspaper (Awesome of the Day)

Part of the beauty of subscribing to McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern is never knowing what to expect. This December, Issue 33 of Dave Eggers’ literary journal will be in the form of an ancient delivery system for news, analysis and the funny papers—a newspaper. The one-off broadsheet, called the San Francisco Panorama will feature 32 pages of news, 24 pages of sports, 16 pages of comics and 16 pages of food, all on high-quality newsprint in an apparent effort to rub the noses of newspaper men and women across the nation in what they’ve lost....  read more