Mcsweeney's Issue 22
From The Notebook
- Editore:
Mcsweeney's Publishing
- Collana:
- Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern
- EAN:
9781932416664
- ISBN:
1932416668
- Pagine:
- 350
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione Mcsweeney's Issue 22
"McSweeney's Issue 22" is a three-part exercise in inspired restriction -- of author, of content, and of form. In section one, poets (yes -- poets!) including Mary Karr, Denis Johnson, C. D. Wright, and D. C. Berman initiate poet-chains, picking a poem of their own and one by another poet. The next poet will then do the same, and then again, and again, and so on. In section two, Fitzgerald (yes -- F. Scott Fitzgerald!) provides a list of unused story premises first cataloged in "The Crack-Up"; his mission is completed by writers like Diane Williams and Nick Flynn. In section three, finally, the president of France's (yes -- France!) legendary Oulipians offers a rare glimpse into his group's current experiments with linguistic constraint. Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.