End of I. Bundle

Three years ago, McSweeney’s published Stephen Dixon’s acclaimed I., “a moving and oddly funny book” (so said the New Yorker). Now, the two-time National Book Award nominee revisits that novel’s intimate territory, tightening his unflinching focus even as he widens the scope. Dixon remains a master stylist, and the narrator’s tense, breakneck reflections on loss in all contexts are imbued with remarkable urgency and warmth.

Recognized with awards from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Print magazine, I. features an enormous die-cut "I." on its cover, looking through to a Daniel Clowes drawing of a Dixon-ish character. End of I. inverts that design--the Dixon depiction is silkscreened directly onto the cover board, and a die-cut at the cover's edge reveals the title. It's hard to explain, but looks sweet--the books are designed as a pair, and available only as a set. For the price of any other book by itself, we'll give you two volumes of Dixon at his best.

“The surprise is not only how funny Dixon can be but also how unutterably sad.... [Dixon] takes a reader’s heart and just plain dropkicks it.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“His circular, self-aware prose can be entrancing.”
—New York Times Book Review

“Stephen Dixon is one of the great secret masters.“
—Jonathan Lethem

"You have to go into a Dixon book the way you'd go into a game of strip poker: ready to end up naked. He gives it to you straight, and means every word. He is the least pretentious living writer."
—J. Robert Lennon