Three-time National Magazine Award-winning McSweeney’s Quarterly returns, now helmed by new Editor Rita Bullwinkel.

Inside this ecstatic paperback you’ll find a stunningly exuberant and delirious portfolio of paintings by former Quarterly Editor Claire Boyle, and new work by seventeen writers. Gasp in awe at a story by Mieko Kawakami told entirely through the lens of overheard phone calls; a sci-fi epic by Yuri Herrera; fresh, heartstopping, and scathingly beautiful prose by Venita Blackburn, Joanna Howard, and Icarus Koh—a never-before-published fiction writer; and brilliant letters from Nell Zink, Jennifer S. Cheng, Elisa Gonzalez, and more! Get through the winter blues with this issue’s vibrating, radiant, maximalist energy and stand squarely in opposition to the literary vogue de jour of cold, minimalist austerity.

Featuring new stories by:

• Clare Beams
  
• Venita Blackburn
  
• Emily Crossen
  
• Sasha Graybosch
  
• Yuri Herrera
  
• Joanna Howard
  
• James Kaelan
  
• Mieko Kawakami
  
• Icarus Koh
  
• Matthew Rohrer

A portfolio of paintings by Claire Boyle

Letters by:

• Jennifer S. Cheng
  
• Caterina Fake
  
• Sara Fan
  
• Elisa Gonzalez
  
• Caille Millner
  
• Jan Wilm
  
• Nell Zink 

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.

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 / Rita Bullwinkel
Publisher: McSweeney's Books
Pages: 160pp
Size: 5.25 x 7.5
Notes: paperback, color
Release Date: February 20, 2025
ISBN: 978-1952119972