Reviews

McSweeney's 35 [With Booklet] by Roddy Doyle, Dave Eggers, Blind Margjit, Hilton Als, Per Petterson, Kid Icarus, Steven Millhauser

keerit's review

3.0

gonna reread phantoms one day but the rest was underwhelming for my first mcsweeneys collection

radioisasoundsalvation's review

4.0

This issue of McSweeney's made me so happy, and not just because it's my first as a subscriber! I really loved Millhauser's story, "Phantoms"! It was a really fun spin on case studies like the ones I had to read in college. Millhauser's pretty versatile, apparently, seeming as that story felt nothing like Martin Dressler.

There were a couple of the Norwegian stories that really stood out as well; "On An Old Farmstead in Europe" and "Out in the Open" were my two favorites content wise. "Like A Tiger in A Cage" was seriously heartfelt, and if Petterson writes characters that well in his novels, I'll be all over that!

joshhornbeck's review

5.0

Another great collection of fiction from McSweeney's - a new novella, a sample of fiction from Norway - all with a heat-sensitive cover that changes images with the temperature.