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:
Shakespeare Wrote for Money
by Nick Hornby
With an affectionate introduction by Sarah Vowell, this is the third and final collection of columns by celebrated novelist Nick Hornby (About a Boy, High Fidelity, A Long Way Down) from the Believer magazine. Hornby's monthly reading diary is unlike any arts column in any other publication: It actually talks about cultural artifacts the way they actually exist in people's lives. Hornby is a voracious and unapologetic reader, and his notes on books, highbrow and otherwise, are always accessible and hilarious.
WHAT TO LOOK FORWARD TO:
Curious Men
by Frank Buckland
Part of the Paul Collins Library
Have you met the man who walks upside down? The guano mummy? The disembodied singing head of Anthropoglossos? You will. Whenever a mysterious oddity arrived in Victorian London, readers knew there was one man they could rely on being at the scene: Frank Buckland. A barrel-chested surgeon chomping an ever-present cigar, Buckland was one of the most outsized eccentrics of his time—a naturalist who seriously proposed kangaroo-and yak-ranching in England, and a raconteur whose London home was filled with a freakish array of stuffed animals, grinning skulls, and an all-too-alive gang of monkeys who snatched food off visitors’ dinner plates. Rescued after a century of obscurity, and culled from thousands of pages of Buckland’s eyewitness accounts, Curious Men brings back to life eighteen tales from one of the most curious men of all.
Cold Fusion
by Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey
For many years the scientific and educational community has wondered and worried about the possibility that semi-sane scholar-pretenders would find the means to put out a series of reference books aimed at children but filled with ludicrous misinformation. These books would be distributed through respectable channels and would inevitably find their way into the hands and households of well-meaning families, who would go to them for facts but instead find bizarre untruths. The books would look normal enough, but would read as if written by people who should not have written them.
Sadly, that day is upon us. The fourth book in the HOW series, Cold Fusion, is to be feared. Like its predecessors, Giraffes? Giraffes! and Animals of the Ocean, Cold Fusion must also be kept far from the young people in your life. This book reveals the secrets of cold fusion, one of the most controversial scientific pursuits that can be conducted in a bathtub.
SEVEN 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 Shakespeare Wrote for Money. Anyone starting their subscription today will start with Vol.1, Issue 34 and end at Vol. 1, Issue 43.
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*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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