“Book Descriptions: McSweeney’s National Magazine Award-winning quarterly brings you our 66th issue, an elegant paperback festooned with coded illustrations by Jacques Kleynhans (see how many versions of the number 66 you can spot). Featuring “Willie the Weirdo,” a brand-new story by legendary horror writer Stephen King; plus stories by Taisia Kitaiskaia, Hernan Diaz, and T.C. Boyle; poems by Soviet poet Anna Akhmatova newly translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky; a surreal full-color comic by Teddy Goldenberg; letters from Samantha Hunt and Kate Folk; and more. McSweeney’s Issue 66 promises a rip-roaring time you won’t soon forget—peel back its pages and dig in.
Letters / from Samantha Hunt, Shayna Conde, Kate Folk, and Afabwaje Kurian -- Pelican Paradise / Nicky Gonzalez -- When a man dies / Anna Akhmatova (trans. Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky) -- Dog lab / T.C. Boyle -- The world of interiors / Hernan Diaz -- Origin story / Corinna Vallianatos -- Soil Science / Teddy Goldenberg -- Willie the weirdo / Stephen King -- from Northern elegies, #4 / Anna Akhmatova (trans. Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky) -- Neighborhood dogs / Taisia Kitaiskaia -- Viperidae / Victor Ladis Schultz -- The little men / Carl Napolitano -- Wild honey has a scent of freedom / Anna Akhmatova (trans. Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky) -- The sorrows of others / Ada Zhang.” DRIVE