Books by Claire Boyle
McSweeney's Issue 66 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly returns with our 66th issue. A beautiful back-to-basics paperback, Issue 66 features brand new work from Stephen King, T. C. Boyle, and Hernan Diaz, new translations of the poet Anna Akhmatova, and so much more. 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.
Praise for McSweeney's Quarterly "A key barometer of the literary climate."-The New York Times "McSweeney's is so much more than a magazine; it's a vital part of our culture. " -Geoff Dyer, McSweeney's contributor and author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and Otherwise Known as the Human Condition
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McSweeney's Issue 58 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): 2040 AD - Climate Fiction edition (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, 58)
by Claire Boyle
Spanning six continents and nine countries―from metropolitan Mexico City to the crumbling ancient aqueducts of Turkey, the receding coastline of Singapore to the coral shores of northern Australia―McSweeney’s 58 is wholly focused on climate change, with speculative fiction from ten contributors, made in collaboration with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Global in scope, each story is set in the year 2040 and imagines what the world might look like if the dire warnings issued by the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C were to come true. Using fiction―informed here and there by realism and climate science―this issue explores the tangible, day-to-day implications of these cataclysmic scientific projections. Featuring Tommy Orange, Elif Shafak, Luis Alberto Urrea, Asja Bakic, Rachel Heng, and others, with gorgeous full-color illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook.
From the issue's introduction by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Chief Program Officer of the NRDC: "Each story in this special issue is the product of a unique collaboration between its author and an NRDC policy expert with specialized knowledge of how climate change is already affecting the world, and how it could continue to affect the world in the decades to come. The result, we hope, is a collection where fiction’s already considerable power is fortified by science."
Featuring original stories by:
Tommy Orange
Claire G. Coleman
Birna Anna Björnsdóttir
Luis Alberto Urrea
Elif Shafak
Abbey Mei Otis
Asja Bakic
Rachel Heng
Kanishk Tharoor
Mikael Awake
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McSweeney's Issue 55 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)
Fresh off winning the 2019 ASME award for fiction, issue 55 features new fiction from Laura van den Berg, Gordon Lish, T Kira Madden, and Emma Copley Eisenberg, and more; letters about face masks and puttanesca and the rapid disintegration of our natural world by R. O. Kwon, Alexander Chee, and Jack Pendarvis; a searing nonfiction piece by José Orduña that harkens back to shoe-leather journalism, chronicling his experience at immigrant-rights demonstrations across the spectrum of activism; oh, and a 16-page section of mesmerizing photography by Pelle Cass from his series "Crowded Fields." Read and be renewed!
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McSweeney's Issue 57 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Twenty-first Anniversary Edition (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, 57)
by Claire Boyle
Our mammoth anniversary issue includes a bumper crop of new art and writing: a 24-page full-color comic, a letters section commemorating our big anniversary year, a fair-sized collection of stories, a graphic nonfiction experiment called The American Pie, and a booklet of cliffhanger tales-five booklets, in sum, all packaged in an elaborate three-fold case.
Featuring an unbelievable lineup of new and regular contributors, including Oyinkan Braithwaite, Claudia Rankine, Elena Passarello, Bob Odenkirk, Brian Evenson, Adrienne Celt, Lorrie Moore, Alison Bechdel, Jeff Tweedy, Jerry Saltz, Avery Trufleman, Hanif Abdurraqib, Julio Torres, Ken Burns, and many many more besides.
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