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  <title><![CDATA[McSweeney's Issue 18 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;Even beyond Edmund White's youthful hustler, Joyce Carol Oates's fatherly killer, and Roddy Doyle's Rwandan refugee, &lt;i&gt;Issue 18&lt;/i&gt; will not stay at home. Bears, clouds, assassinations, and demons lurk in a high-concept labyrinth of stories. And for those who have decided that the written word is simply too static a medium for their active lifestyle, we'll be inserting the first issue of a new DVD magazine called &lt;i&gt;Wholphin,&lt;/i&gt; which includes films by Spike Jonze, David O. Russell, Miranda July, and the National Clean Up, Paint Up, Fix Up Bureau.&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 05 14:51:49 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you have, through some terrible oversight or tragic turn of events, never considered getting a subscription to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://store.mcsweeneys.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/catalog.detail/object_id/B98CC3A0-53FA-4ED6-A771-E788DC9D9396/McSweeneysSubscriptionbrBeginningwithIssue19.cfm">McSweeney's Quarterly Concern</a>, may I heartily suggest to you this very moment that it is more than a <em>merely good idea</em>, and that it is in fact (and not merely in verisimilitude) <em>one of th...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12728405">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 12 21:00:03 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 13 20:33:44 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite the fatiguing effect of the ever-present &quot;we&quot; and present tense used in most things McSweeney, I still enjoy reading the shorts. This collection, which came with the delightful Wolphin #1 (check out &quot;The Delicious&quot; PLEASE), is the usual assortment of eccentric and poetic ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4456277">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Jul 25 22:02:19 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 06 11:12:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Happiness Reminders by Rachel Himmelheber<br/>The rest...not so much. These issues are kind of like pop-rocks - infectious, and they're exciting the first whirl-around, but inevitably get boring when the novelty is gone. At first, I really wanted a full subscription, but I think I might satiate mys...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64970177">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 03 17:24:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 08 12:22:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one looks to have been on my shelf for close to five years. Really, McSweeney's used to be good. This one is terrible. They seem to select stories based on how pretentious, affected and fake the voices of the writers are. I couldn't even finish half of these.]]></body>
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    <review id="18879792">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Mar 28 16:29:06 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 28 16:37:19 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first McSweeney's and I thought it was a great place to start. There were some wonderful standouts like Chris Adrian's &quot;The Stepfather&quot; (a smartly written satire of the Bush presidency), Adam Levin's &quot;Hot Pink&quot;, Joe Meno's &quot;People are becoming clouds&quot; and Jo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18879792">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40402016">
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Dec 18 14:06:59 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 30 11:11:16 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like this issue a lot.  It had some really good stuff and some really weird stuff.  I think some of the weird stuff was written so the author could feel smarter than the reader.  They failed, but it was still entertaining.]]></body>
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    <review id="61750310">
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    <body><![CDATA[Favs: The Stepfather/Chris Adrian, Hot Pink/Adam Levin, Bad Habits/Joyce Carol Oates, The Railway Nurse/Nelly Reifler]]></body>
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    <review id="61531013">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jun 29 12:43:34 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 05 09:02:01 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[No surprise - stories run the gamut from strong to &quot;wha-ha?&quot;.]]></body>
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    <review id="18813033">
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 17 16:55:24 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Mar 27 20:05:34 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 17 16:52:09 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[took me FOREVER to finish. i got stuck on adam levin's hot pink, which then wound up being my favorites. i stammered and stalled my way through the second half, eyeing my copy of the corrections (which i am holding on to for the next reading drought). i loved joe meno's story about the wife who turn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18813033">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10566791">
    <user id="598107">
    <name><![CDATA[Rosey]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 17 10:57:27 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 14 10:46:58 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed the first story in this collection. There were a couple others here and there I could get into. Some I found utterly pointless. What are ya gonna do? You can't please everyone. Nonetheless, I've never been able to get into Joyce Carol Oates' short stories before, and I actually like...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10566791">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67078950">
    <user id="1748896">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 12 08:49:07 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 31 21:52:53 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hm, done reading this...I want to make note of the highlights but I don't have the book with me; to-do later. ]]></body>
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    <review id="9407437">
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 21 14:48:00 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 21 14:48:00 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one has some good stories in it. I particularly remember one that I think was called &quot;Hot Pink&quot; or something like that. It was just about some guys walking around a city, it might have been Chicago. I remember someone carrying a bag of oranges. I obviously don't remember it &quot;part...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9407437">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11408812">
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  <date_added>Tue Jan 01 17:40:29 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 01 17:40:45 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although I enjoyed many of the stories in this issue, overall I did not find this crop as wonderful as other McSweeney's pieces I have read. I liked &quot;The Stepfather&quot; by Chris Adrien, &quot;New Boy&quot; by Roddy Doyle, &quot;My Hustlers&quot; by Edmund White, &quot;Happiness Reminders&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11408812">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18263305">
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Apr 03 12:58:14 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The usual mix of inventive and wearisome. Though it maybe devalued Egan's &quot;The General&quot; as a beautifully satirical story about the later career about a third world dictator, I dug Daniel Orozco's &quot;Somoza's Dream.&quot; Joe Meno's &quot;People Are Becoming Clouds&quot; seems like it'll...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18263305">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15799059">
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    <name><![CDATA[Izetta Autumn]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 29 08:29:13 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a fantastic gathering of short stories - inventive, creative, and truly lovely writing. In a publishing world full of not so very good writing, and accented with less than innovative or interesting plots, McSweeney's Issue 18 highlights some fo the very best talent.]]></body>
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    <review id="13731483">
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    <name><![CDATA[Maggie]]></name>
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  <date_updated>Sun Jan 27 12:45:28 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great collections of short stories...this is the mcsweeney's issue that grabbed me...two stories, people are becoming clouds and deb olin unferth...first one is tender with great imagery and deb olin unferth just makes you feel good about yourself and makes me laugh...]]></body>
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    <review id="1165053">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some really excellent short fiction here, particularly Chris Adrian's &quot;The Stepfather&quot;, &quot;Hot Pink&quot;, &quot;My Hustlers&quot;, and &quot;Bad Habits&quot;.  &quot;The Railroad Nurse&quot; tantalized with a nice twist and loss of context, but barely did anything with its excellent se...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[short stories for hipsters and poncey fans of &quot;literature&quot;. Some great ones, some strange ones I didn't understand, and a couple of crap ones. Still worth reading (especially because McSweeney's were having a sale when I bought this for $2).]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely one of the better McSweeney's, there were no duds in this one.  Usually there are one or two stories in these collections that I will read two pages of and then skip, but I really enjoyed everything in this one.  ]]></body>
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