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By Emily Witt 10/05/11 11:55am

Hires

Nosowsky.

Ethan Nosowsky Named Editorial Director at McSweeney’s

Ethan Nosowsky has left his role as editor-at-large for Graywolf Press to take a job as editorial director at McSweeney's, announcing the move today on Twitter. Mr. Nosowsky used to work as an editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and is also the "consultant for innovative literature" at the Creative Capital Foundation. He has a more traditional book publishing background than some at McSweeney's, a sign that that its San Francisco-based books division will likely become more aggressive about acquiring work. Read More

By Emily Witt 7/01/11 8:56am

Broadway

The plot.

Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon Writing 826 Valencia Musical

Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon are working on a musical about McSweeney's non-profit 826 Valencia's Superhero Supply Store in Park Slope. It's true, Ms. Waldman told us! It will be called The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company. Michael Mayer, of American Idiot and Spring Awakening will direct; Peter Lerman, a young up-and-coming musical talent, will compose; Read More

By W.M. Akers 5/20/10 8:52pm

What We’re Reading: Art Of McSweeney’s

The Gist: A coffee-table retrospective of twelve years of McSweeney's, told issue-by-issue and book-by-book, and, focusing on the text-heavy, deliberately arcane design that marks everything Dave Eggers has ever touched.

Author: The editors of McSweeney'sPublisher: Chronicle BooksPage Count: 256Pages Read: 50ish? We were skipping around.

Does It Work? It's clogged by tepid interviews with the people responsible, who never offer more insight Read More

By Molly Fischer 2/15/10 6:08pm

It’s Hip to be Profitable

Today, a bicoastal examination of the future of media.

Dave Eggers spoke recently at Berkeley's J-School about print journalism. He and fellow McSweeney's leaders took the opportunity to explain the economics of the quarterly's recent newspaper experiment, the Panorama. Reports SF Weekly:

Many people assumed Dave Eggers' business model for the next-generation newspaper was something Read More

By Matt Haber 8/21/08 6:25pm

Vice to Readers: You Never Write

Like a parent who threatens to turn around a car full of unruly kids unless they behave this instant, Vice magazine has decided to suspend its letters page until readers can send them something worth printing.

"You know what? No letters page this month," declare the editors of the Brooklyn-based youth culture and Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 8/28/07 11:56am

‘Good’ Writing and ‘Good’ Music Converge for ‘Good’ Cause!

The big dogs of publishing might have Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club, but the little ones have indie rock. Unclear when the flirtation became a marriage, but the benefit concert held Sunday night at Beacon Theater for 826 NYC, the McSweeney’s-sponsored reading-and-writing program for kids, seems a good indication that independent literature and independent music are Read More


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