This issue is a two-book package, held together by a cardboard
bellyband.
Our first issue of 2012 features all kinds of amazing stuff?so much,
from so many good people, that we turned it into two beautiful little
books. There are new stories from Neil Gaiman and Etgar Keret and David
Vann (can you guess which one contains pterodactyls and Aztecs?), there
is Said Sayrafiezadeh awaiting the uprising at Occupy Wall Street and a
special compendium of the incredible writing that inspired the Egyptian
Revolution, and, in its own volume, there is Rick Bass's extraordinary
account of a week in Rwanda?the most ambitious nonfiction piece
McSweeney's has ever run, and without a doubt one of the best essays of
the year. You don't want to miss this one!