In one triple-barreled bundle, these are the three issues that garnered McSweeney's its first National Magazine Award for fiction, and inspired the American Society of Magazine Editors to opine that "From two children at
loose ends on the streets of San Juan, to a make-believe medic playing a chilling game of doctor in a Southern strip mall, to a feral child being 'civilized' in 18th-century France, McSweeney's exotic tales grab hold of the reader with an unabashed love of storytelling that at once charms and chastens." One of these issues is a hardcover book, one is a paperback, and one is a cigar box.
