McSweeney's Issue 39

With our first photo cover since Issue 5 (and a gorgeous one!), Issue 39 offers a whole lot to behold—Elmore Leonard’s latest Karen Sisco caper and Roberto Bolaño’s Neochilean road trip, J.T.K. Belle’s unkillable bovine and Benjamin Weissman’s Louella Tarantula, Julie Hecht on Marimekko dresses and Jess Walter on going to cardboard, and amazing, far-ranging fiction from Amelia Gray and Abi Maxwell and Yannick Murphy, too. (Plus some pretty incredible nonfiction on the fall of the Peacock Throne.) Don’t miss this one!Table of Contents:They All Stand Up and Sing by Julie HechtBenjamin Bucks by Jennie Erin SmithThe Neochileans by Roberto BolañoThe Shah’s Man by Tom BarbashPolitics and Conscience by Václav HavelBumsters by E.C OsonduRunning by Tabitha SorenChick Killer by Elmore LeonardSecret Language by Yannick MurphyFifty Ways to Eat Your Lover by Ameila GrayAnthing Helps by Jess WalterRunning by Tabitha SorenLouella Tarantula by Benjamin WeissmanGiant of the Sea by Abi MaxwellCarlos the Impossible by J.T.K Belle