Counsel For The Young Indie Publisher — Honest tips and jaded insights from The Stool Pigeon grave, resting place of a music newspaper that was fiercely independent to the end.
A TV Pilot Script — McSweeney's founder teams up with playwright for a screenplay about a Yemeni-American cop in San Francisco.
The Evasive Wave — Surfing is awash with staggering stories of waves conquered and heroes made, but where are all the great surf books? Tetsuhiko Endo trawls through waveriding's slim literary canon and finds a world that lies beyond words.
Defenders of Print Part Three — Great Looking Stories is Visual Editions founders' Britt and Anna’s mantra, and it lets them push design boundaries one publication at a time.
Eastbound — A memoir of sorts, by social worker-turned-journalist, J. Malcolm Garcia.
Contest — Joel Rice is a skateboarder and journalist who writes FLIP, a skate-related column for McSweeney's featuring in-depth interviews with everyone from Thrasher editor Michael Burnett and that video-game guy Tony Hawk to professional colourer-inner Ed Templeton. This short story is an experimental piece of factual fiction, inspired by events that may or may not have happened, about a day in the life of a skateboarding hack.
Defenders of Print Part Two — The Oakland-based anarchists are calling shit on capitalism through the power of print.
Out Now — Author extraordinaire and incredible doer Dave Eggers kicks off our celebration of storytelling and craft.
Beyond The Lattice — Dave Eggers came to us as an orphan, baring himself to the world in his heartfelt memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. At twenty-one, he was left to raise his eight-year-old brother after their parents died of cancer in a span of five weeks. But that was only the beginning. Since then, Eggers has re-energised America’s lit scene with McSweeney’s, his quarterly-turned-publishing house, founded a national network of tutoring centres tucked behind fantastical shops, and collaborated in books, film and music with the likes of Spike Jonze, Judd Apatow and Beck. Eggers spoke to HUCK about the need to explore, live a creative life and do some good along the way.
Defenders of Print Part One — Cartoons and comics will always have a home, thanks to a devoted shop and publishing house in the heart of Montreal.