McSweeney's Issue 51 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Adult Fiction Honor (2005) Drawing on cutting-edge work in

Drawing on cutting-edge work in biology

and this time it's full of scary creatures

illuminating readings of key passages from his primary texts

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McSweeney's Issue 51 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Adult Fiction Honor (2005) Drawing on cutting-edge work inIssue 51 features eighteen new stories that will keep you up late, with high stakes plots, dark humor, and imaginative twists. It includes quirky vignettesfrom cockfights and ill conceived murder plots to booger eating wisdom from gruff mermaids, church officials dressed as tortoises, and ape urine filled squirt gunsunder the same sumptuous hardcover presentation illustrated by Jesse Jacobs. Plus: new writing from Nadja Spiegelman, Claire Vaye