Archive | May, 2005

The Best Of McSweeney’s Volume One Dave Eggers et al.

A correspondence with the inhabitants of the moon could only be begun by means of such mathematical contemplations and ideas which we and they have in common. They might perhaps erect a similar one in reply. Schemes far more foolish and preposterous than the above have been contrived and acted upon in every age of [...]

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Foe John Maxwell Coetzee

Some time in the second decade of the eighteenth century one Susan Barton told Mr Daniel Foe of her hard and unusual life — most particularly the span of time she spent cast away on an island with a man called Cruso and his multiliated negro servant Friday. This is the story of her story [...]

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