McSweeney's Issue 1: Gegenshein

Issue 1 of T I M O T H Y M c S W E E N E Y ' S Q U A R T E R L Y C O N C E R N(Known also as "Gegenshein").The debut issue is white, and is 144 pages long.Apart from a healthy number of errors and oversights, issue No. 1 contains:Learning to Love Again: A Story in Three Parts, by Neal Pollack[Mr. Pollack's signature stuff, including the world-shaking "This Albanian Life"]Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (VIII), by David Foster Wallace[About spiders and plastic surgery]R.W. Apple Is Prejudiced (An Open Letter to R.W. Apple), by Zev Borow[Borow indemnified us]The Discovery of El Dorado, City of Gold, by Marc Herman[Journalism, and a parallel fictional treatment]J.H.C., by Tom Junod[Short fiction about Jesus running a circus]Attack of the Fabulons, by Mark O'Donnell[A teleplay about aliens with impeccable taste]Mollusks, by Arthur Bradford[Award-winning fiction about a slug]On "The Yule Log," by Rick Moody[Killed by the NY Times]Young Professionals, by Courtney Eldridge[Cats, and young women, and neuroses = goodness]Frank and Pico, A New Screenplay by Morgan Phillips[Optioned for $1.5 mil]Have You Ever *Been* to Portland, Maine? By Mary Gallagher[Story told in floorplans]"Impressions" of a Life Very, Very Different from Our Own, Half a World Away, if Not Farther, Depending on Where You Leave From: An Egyptian Remembrance (Or, Notes and Complaints from a Colicky Child) by Stephen Shalit[Tricolumned story about a failed journalistic junket]Old Dogs, New Tricks: The Twilight of Modernism, and the Dawn of the Neo-Senilists, by Komar & Melamid and Mia Fineman[Those two, at it again]DJ & Emma, by Randy Cohen[Family life]Haole Go Home! (Small Gestures from the Hawaiian Secessionist Movement), by Zev Borow[Killed by Civilization magazine, when Bill Blass became editor]Also: contributions from Chris Harris, Marny Requa, Paul Tullis, Sarah Vowell, Todd Pruzan, Tim Carvell, Phillip Ryan