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 the world. The millions which are now wasting in the pursuits of mad ambition and destructive warfare might, with far greater propriety, be expended in constructing a huge triangle or ellipsis of many miles in extent, in Siberia or any other country. Are you in?
Dave Eggers’s selection of short stories, articles and essays for Volume One bundles the best of his magazine McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, issues one to ten. This is an absolutely superb collection of short stories and documentaries, which is, as the magazine, beautifully set in Garamond 3. A 21st century classic.