McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly returns with 66th issue: a beautiful back-to-basics paperback, Issue 65 features a band-new story by Stephen King.

THIS ISSUE: an elegant paperback festooned with coded illustrations by Jacques Kleynhans (see how many versions of the number 66 you can spot). Featuring “Willie the Weirdo,” a brand-new story by legendary horror writer Stephen King; plus stories by Taisia Kitaiskaia, Hernan Diaz, and T.C. Boyle; poems by Soviet poet Anna Akhmatova newly translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky; a surreal full-color comic by Teddy Goldenberg; letters from Samantha Hunt and Kate Folk; and more. McSweeney’s Issue 66 promises a rip-roaring time you won’t soon forget—peel back its pages and dig in.

Featuring original stories by:

• Nicky Gonzalez
• T. C. Boyle
• Hernan Diaz
• Corinna Vallianatos
• Stephen King
• Taisia Kitaiskaia
• Victor Ladis Schultz
• Carl Napolitano
• Ada Zhang

An illustrated story by Teddy Goldenberg

Poetry by Anna Akhmatova
Translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky

And letters by:

• Samantha Hunt
• Shayna Conde
• Kate Folk
• Afabwaje Kurian

About McSweeney's Quarterly:

Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned (there have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an issue with two spines, an issue with a magnetic binding, an issue that looked like a bundle of junk mail, and an issue that looked like a sweaty human head), but always brings you the very best in new literary fiction.

Editors: Dave Eggers / Claire Boyle
Publisher: McSweeney's Books
Pages: 224pp
Size: 6 x 9
Notes: paperback
Release Date: June 30, 2022
ISBN: 978-1952119224