Topic: McSweeney’s

Did You Know Jesse Eisenberg Writes A McSweeney’s Column Called ‘Restaurant Reviews From A Privileged Nine-Year-Old’?

It’s always nice to find out a certain type of actor is a weird, smart and funny person IRL, and doesn’t just play one on TV. More »

Get to Know an Internet Commenter – A new installment of a superb McSweeney’s feature. Hooray! (McSweeney’s)

Dave Eggers’ Sweet Animal Drawings

A heartbreaking stork of staggering wingspan? Beloved novelist Dave Eggers is proving himself to be something of an artist as well as a scribbler. His first book of drawings came out this week, published by his own company, McSweeney’s. Is It Right to Draw Their Fur: Animal Renderings contains 26 sketches of animals plus captions of what the creatures might be thinking. There’s one featuring a dog saying “I love you too much to love you” that broke our hearts too much to post (ironically enough) — but these four seem pretty safe. More »

Twitter Poetry, Over 140 Characters – If you secretly wished Allen Ginsberg could have updated Howl for the iPad generation, then you’ll love Oyl Miller‘s poem, Tweet: “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity, over-connectedness, emotionally starving for attention…” etc., etc. (via McSweeneys)

When McSweeney’s Imitates Art Life The Devil Wears Prada - We love “Eloise at Condé Nast,” a Lauren Weisberger-esque take on our favorite children’s story. (via McSweeney’s)

Wholphin and Love Like Deloreans Tonight

Rooftop Films is apparently not just a summer thing, as they have been doing some screenings inside the Chelsea market this fall/winter. Tonight they will be screening some short films from the Wholphin collection (Wholphin is a quarterly DVD … More »