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McSweeney's Issue 8 by McSweeney's Publishing, Dave Eggers, Paul Maliszewski

chelseamartinez's review against another edition

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3.0

I found the "fiction-masquerading-as-fact" theme sort of grating and self-righteous.

Also, though he didn't really fit that theme, I ALWAYS find Lawrence Weschler kind of annoying and precocious.

Oh well. I think this issue is an excellent argument for the existence of The Believer - I like to know what I'm getting and therefore fact/fiction apartheid is totally cool with me.

Also, someday I need to travel to eastern Europe because dry and black as I may think my sense of humor is, I just don't get theirs.
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