McSweeney's Issue 78 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Make Believers
McSweeney's Issue 78 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Make Believers
McSweeney's Issue 78 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Make Believers
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In McSweeney's 78: The Make Believers (guest edited by Thi Bui and Vu Tran), nine writers of the Vietnamese diaspora write from the eclectic hodgepodge that is their shared imagination of what it means to be "Vietnamese". The work in this issue spans highbrow to lowbrow, proper to naughty, logical to absurd, and painful to funny. This issue will be published on April 30th 2025, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. Its contributors work across diasporic perspectives and multiple languages. In this completely singular, nothing-else-of-its-kind, anthology contributors write (and illustrate!) from a place of collective loss and joy. Featuring:
Doan Bui
Thi Bui
H'Rina DeTroy
Anna Moï
Hoài Huong Nguyen
Vaan Nguyen
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud
Bao Phi
Paul Tran
Vu Tran
Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned (there have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an issue with two spines, an issue with a magnetic binding, an issue that looked like a bundle of junk mail, and an issue that looked like a sweaty human head), but always brings you the very best in new literary fiction.
Doan Bui
Thi Bui
H'Rina DeTroy
Anna Moï
Hoài Huong Nguyen
Vaan Nguyen
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud
Bao Phi
Paul Tran
Vu Tran
Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned (there have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an issue with two spines, an issue with a magnetic binding, an issue that looked like a bundle of junk mail, and an issue that looked like a sweaty human head), but always brings you the very best in new literary fiction.
About the Author
About the Author
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern began in 1998 as a literary journal that published only works rejected by other magazines. That rule was soon abandoned, and since then McSweeney's has attracted some of the finest writers in the world, from George Saunders and Lydia Davis, to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and David Foster Wallace. Recent issues have featured work by Tommy Orange, Hanif Abdurraqib, Lisa Taddeo, Mimi Lok, and Lesley Nneka Arimah. At the same time, the journal continues to be a major home for new and unpublished writers; we're committed to publishing exciting fiction regardless of pedigree.
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Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
McSweeney's
Pub date:
2025-04-30
Length:
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