The posts unfurl here in reverse chronological order-so the newest is on top, the first is on the bottom. Anyhow, this seemed like the best way to show those conversations between the books, one author speaking to another’s ambitions and accomplishments. We know it’s not programmatic or cleanly delineated, and we like it that way-but we do think the books make sense together, that it gradually becomes clear what an MCD book is (at least until the next crazy idea we have-and don’t worry, we’ve got some coming…there’s some good stuff to announce!). We also hope that the books are in some kind of productive conversation with one another. We don’t really know how the former staffers chose we don’t really talk to them or ever think about them (traitors).Īs mentioned elsewhere, MCD does aspire to be some kind of weird community-of writers, of readers, all of us. (Trouble choosing? Not writers!) And the editors, who are not allowed to have favorites, mostly chose to write about their first MCD books (in one case, the first MCD book). The authors got to choose whatever book they wanted to write about in a highly disorganized process sometimes another writer had beaten them to the punch, but mostly everyone got their first choice sometimes we made a suggestion if they were having trouble choosing. We’re mostly busy working on the next five years, but we asked our authors, our current editorial crew, and a few former MCD staffers to write up a few words about an MCD book they did not write.
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