WHAT IT'S ABOUT:
Based on popular request, we've created the McSweeney's Book Release Club. It's similar to a book-of-the-month club--we'll send BRC subscribers the next ten books we put out, roughly one a month. We will do this for just $100 (plus shipping).
SUBSCRIBE TODAY AND START WITH:
A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain
by Tamler Sommers
Do we have free will? What counts as justice in the Peruvian Amazon? Is Catherine Zeta-Jones objectively hotter than Drew Barrymore? These are just a few of the questions that philosopher Tamler Sommers attempts to answer in far-spanning interviews with ten acclaimed researchers in the burgeoning field of moral psychology. Philip Zimbardo talks about his famous "Stanford Prison Experiment" and how it relates to abuses of Abu Ghraib. Harvard neuroscientist Josh Greene reports on the ways our brains react to ethical dilemmas. Jonathan Haidt explains why we object to incest and how that relates to disagreements between conservatives and liberals. Renowned Primatologist Frans de Waal juxtaposes human behavior with that of the bonobo (a species he terms the "hippie ape"). And much more. A Very Bad Wizard is essential reading for anyone curious about the origins and inner workings of our moral lives.
COMING UP:
Better of McSweeney's, Volume 2
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern features every kind of writing you can imagine, plus a few brand new kinds. The Better of McSweeney's, Volume 2 features science-fiction, immigration drama, and naval disasters. There are tragically dysfunctional families and enjoyably dysfunctional families. There are movie stars and bears, and a man who marries a tree.
The Better of McSweeney's, Volume 2 will feature issues 11-20, and include stories from writers such as Stephen Millhauser, Chris Adrian, Stephen Elliott, Susan Straight, Brian Evenson, Yannick Murphy, Wells Tower, Allison Smith, Tom Bissell, and Tony D'Souza
In short, this is a rollicking assortment of contemporary literature, and a celebration of fiction at the dawn of the 21st century.
Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary
by Justin Green; Introduction by Art Spiegelman
A lost classic of underground cartooning, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is Justin Green's autobiographical portrayal of his struggle with religion and his own neuroses. Binky Brown is a young Catholic struggling with all the usual problems of adolescence-puberty, agnosticism, and the fear that the strange ray of energy emanating from his private parts will strike a picture of the Holy Virgin Mary. Deeply confessional, with artwork that veers wildly between formalist and hallucinogenic, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is the controversial masterpiece which invented the Autobiographical Graphic Novel.
SIX MORE EXCITING TITLES TO BE ANNOUNCED.
Receive the next ten McSweeney's books for just $100!* If you sign up today, you'll start with A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain by Tamler Sommers. Anyone starting their subscription today will start with Vol.1, Issue 45 and end at Vol. 1, Issue 54.
To view past books in the Book Release Club, please click here.
*Titles subject to change! Order in which you'll receive them also subject to change! We're doing our best planning out our book schedule, and we're confident that whatever books you get you 'll like.
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